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Children's author Nancy Etchemendy will get a close look at some bergs in June aboard a research vessel, as she writes about the expedition for a series of books for kids and young adults.
Children's author Nancy Etchemendy will get a close look at some bergs in June aboard a research vessel, as she writes about the expedition for a series of books for kids and young adults.

Edith L. Taylor, left, and Ruben Cuneo excavate rocks at a site informally called Alfie's Ridge at the head of the Shackleton Glacier during a previous field season in Antarctica. Deep Time
Edith Taylor, a paleobotanist at the University of Kansas, seeks answers to how flowering seed plants, the dominate flora species today, evolved over time. She recently received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue laboratory work on Antarctic plant fossils collected earlier this decade from the Beardmore Glacier area.

Coastal Ocean Observation Lab Web site A crew deploys a Slocum glider. The robots can cover hundreds of kilometers on a single battery pack, sampling the ocean far more efficiently that a vessel on its own. Below the Surface
Researchers with the Palmer Long Term Ecological Research program are using a powerful new tool to sweep the ocean of important data - the Slocum glider, a versatile autonomous robot that can cover hundreds of kilometers for weeks at a time.

A Web screen shot of the second issue of Going Beyond the Movies
A new online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, provides a one-stop site of resources specifically designed for teachers of grades K-5. The NSF-funded site provides resources for understanding and teaching about the polar regions.

Blood Falls Taking The Plunge
The search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa will begin in an ice-covered lake in Antarctica, where scientists and engineers will test an autonomous robot that can make three-dimensional maps.

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