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Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility

National repository for geological materials collected in polar regions. Houses over 25000 meters of deep-sea geological core samples.

http://www.arf.fsu.edu/

NOVA Online | Warnings from the Ice | Antarctic Almanac

If the West Antarctic ice sheet were to melt, global seas would rise by 15 to 20 feet. If the East sheet were to melt as well, seas would rise by as much as ...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/almanac.html

Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition > Home

Organization ensuring that environmental issues are given priority when decisions are made under the Antarctic Treaty System, the international treaty ...

http://www.asoc.org/

Antarctic Projects

Information about the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center and the Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Project. Also includes some Antarctic scientific ...

http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/

Gulf of Maine Aquarium: Changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet

May 31, 2000 ... The Antarctic ice sheet changes in size over the course of a year, as you can see in this animation. When it is summer in the southern ...

http://www.gma.org/surfing/antarctica/ice.html

Australian Antarctic Division - Home Page

Agency responsible for the country's Antarctic research, as well as administering the Australian Antarctic Territory and the subantarctic Territory of Heard ...

http://www.aad.gov.au/

Probing Antarctic Glaciers For Clues To Past And Future Sea Level

Scientists believe the barely observed Aurora Subglacial Basin, which lies in East Antarctica, could represent the weak underbelly of the East Antarctic Ice ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028074329.htm

NOAA Photo Library - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth Collection ...

Oct 16, 2006 ... In the Eighteenth Century, the great Captain James Cook tried to pierce the mystery of the Antarctic regions. He, "whose ambition leads me ...

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/corps/antarctic.html

New rifts form on Antarctic ice shelf - CNN.com

Scientists have identified new rifts on an Antarctic ice shelf that could lead to it breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula, the European Space Agency ...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/antarctic.ice.shelf.collapse/index.html

United States Antarctic Resource Center

Feb 27, 2007 ... A joint effort of the USGS National Mapping Division and the National Science Foundation United States Antarctic Program. ...

http://usarc.usgs.gov/

KrillCount.org -- The Antarctic Krill Conservation Project: Home

This small shrimp-like organism may weigh little more than a large paper clip, but its crucial role in the icy Antarctic ecosystem is indisputable. ...

http://www.krillcount.org/

Antarctic History

By January, he had crossed the Antarctic Convergence and on February 1, 1700 at 52°24'S, Halley made the first recorded sighting of tabular icebergs, ...

http://www.antarcticaonline.com/antarctica/history/history.htm

Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC)

The Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC) at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) archives and distributes Antarctic glaciological and ...

http://nsidc.org/agdc/

About the Antarctic Bibliography

The Antarctic Bibliography covers biology, geology, meteorology, medical sciences, oceanography, logistics in Antarctica.

http://www.coldregions.org/antinfo.htm

Antarctic Penguins (Adelie and Emperor)

Aug 20, 2008 ... Pictures of adelie penguins and emperor penguins taken during the Antarctic winter.

http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/Penguins.html

Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions

Feb 15, 2007 ... A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had ...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/osu-atd021207.php

Dictionary of Antarctic slang

Oct 8, 2007 ... Since the 1950's, however, it has been designated an historical landmark and is no longer used as a base camp for Antarctic expeditions. ...

http://www.penguincentral.com/MCMslang.html

The Antarctic Treaty 1 Dec 1959

The Antarctic Treaty Done at Washington 1 December 1959 Entered into force 23 June 1961 The Governments of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, ...

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/entri/texts/acrc/at.txt.html

U.S. Antarctic Policy

The Department of State leads the U.S. delegation to the annual Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM), where the international community discusses a ...

http://www.state.gov/g/oes/ocns/c6528.htm

US NSF - OPP - ANT - The Antarctic Treaty

Jul 10, 2008 ... The 12 nations listed in the preamble (below) signed the Antarctic Treaty on 1 December 1959 at Washington, D.C. The Treaty entered into ...

http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/anttrty.jsp