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28cm amphipod discovered!

http://www.asianscientist.com/topnews/giant-superprawn-amphipod-28-cm-long-new-zealand-kermadec-trench-niwa-2012/ ASIAN SCIENTIST NEWSROOM FEBRUARY 3, 2012 Scientists aboard the RV Kaharoa have discovered ‘supergiant’ prawns in New Zealand’s Kermadec Trench that are 28 centimeters long and 10 to 14 times larger than regular prawns. AsianScientist (Feb. 3, 2012) – Scientists aboard the RV Kaharoa on a recent expedition to one of the deepest places […]

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Lake Vostok scientists lost contact

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/02/russian-scientists-lost-in-frozen-land-lost/ Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen ‘Land of the Lost’? A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious U.S. colleagues — and as the days creep by, the fate […]

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Explorer’s grandson feels weight of history

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/6208886/Explorers-grandson-feels-weight-of-history Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s grandson says his visit to the explorer’s original Antarctic hut on January was an “incredible” experience. Falcon Scott will leave Scott Base today to volunteer with the Antarctic Heritage Trust as a carpenter on the restoration of his grandfather’s later Terra Nova hut at Cape Evans. He said the […]

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Tracking the magnetic south pole

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.nature.com/news/tracking-the-magnetic-south-pole-1.9676 Tracking the magnetic south pole Return to Scott’s Antarctic camp marks 100-year anniversary. Nicola Jones Two scientists from New Zealand will travel to Antarctica today in a quest to continue a 100-year-long record of Earth’s magnetic field: a record begun by British explorer Robert Scott at the start of his ill-fated expedition to […]

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Shortage of icebreakers could lose US the race to the Antarctic

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://io9.com/5873385/shortage-of-icebreaker-ships-could-lose-us-the-race-to-explore-the-antarctic PESSIMISM BY KEITH VERONESE Shortage of icebreaker ships could lose us the race to explore the Antarctic What happens when scientists need supplies, but are hundreds of miles from civilization and surrounded by an 8 foot thick sheet of ice? Billion dollar, specially designed icebreaker ships act as mobile science platforms and make […]

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Mountain Range Found Under Antarctic Ice

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.voanews.com/english/news/environment/Scientist-Finds-Mountain-Range-Under-Antarctic-Ice—136661463.html At Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a short drive north of New York City, more than 300 scientists and researchers are delving into the geophysical mysteries of our planet from virtually every angle. One project is to discover what’s happening beneath the world’s largest ice sheet in remote eastern Antarctica. It’s late afternoon […]

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Penguin cam to keep watch on the waddlers

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.smh.com.au/environment/penguincam-to-keep-watch-on-the-waddlers-20111229-1pe3e.html Penguin-cam to keep watch on the waddlers Jo Chandler IT SEEMS no one, and nothing, is safe from the all-seeing gaze of remote camera technology. And it doesn’t get much more remote than Antarctic penguin CCTV. Over the past six summers scientists working from the Australian research stations of Mawson, Davis and Casey […]

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Earthquake hits Elephant Island

www.AntarcticGuide.com On Sunday morning local time a magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the remote Antarctic island of Elephant Island. At the top of the South Shetland Island group, Elephant Island is best known as the place where the shipwrecked mariners of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition took shelter and waited for rescue under the leadership […]

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Is Shackleton’s Heroism Relevant?

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/should-shackletons-heroism-matter-to-todays-entrepreneurs/250496/ Should Shackleton’s Heroism Matter to Today’s Entrepreneurs? By EDWARD TENNER Not a man was lost during the expedition’s nearly two-year ordeal at sea. Inspiring, sure, but not particularly relevant to today’s leaders. In the New York Times the Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn has a provocative essay on the lessons of the […]

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Lockheed Martin wins US Antarctic contract

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122659&org=NSF&from=news 
 NSF Awards Logistical Support Contract for U.S. Antarctic Program
 December 28, 2011 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a multi-year contract to Lockheed Martin for logistical support for the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP). NSF provides funding for scientific research as well as for the necessary associated infrastructure and logistics, which includes […]

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