ANVERS ISLAND, Antarctica - Roald Amundsen attacked this frozen nowhere-land as a racing explorer, determined to be fastest, to be first, to be remembered. His determination and savvy got him to the South Pole before any other, and made him a hero in an age when Antarctica existed in the human imagination as a final conquest.
LITTLE FALLS -- It took a crew from New York 30 hours and four jet flights to arrive in Antarctica for a seven-week research program, but students at Passaic Valley Regional High School were able to get there on Tuesday in mere seconds. With the flip of a switch, a dozen juniors and seniors at the high school were connected via a video conference to Queens College professor Stephen Pekar and Harlem schoolteacher Shakira Petit, who are part of a team of teachers and students stationed in Antarctica to study sediments and climate change.
Rutgers University will contribute researchers and robotic gliders over the next six years for a study in Antarctica to measure the effects of melting ice on the plankton, whales, seals and penguins that rely on the ice edge for their habitat. Oscar M. Schofield, a marine biologist at Rutgers, has just returned from four weeks at Palmer Station in Antarctica as part of the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Project, which employs scientists from across the country with an array of expertise.
BANGOR - Bess Koffman is spending her summer watching ice melt. But Koffman, 29, of Orono doesn't stand around a lab at the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute 10 hours a day monitoring any ordinary frozen H2O.
Sen. Susan Collins traveled to Antarctica Tuesday to learn more about climate change. The Maine Republican said the trip would help her and other lawmakers persuade a reluctant Congress to limit the country's emissions of heat-trapping gases. Collins was invited by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the National Science Foundation and the University of Maine, which has several researchers in Antarctica. Collins will meet several researchers from the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute on the eight-day trip.
With all the news broadcasts and magazine articles on global warming and its effects on wildlife around the world - the polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba to the elephant seals and penguins in Antarctica, the climate is warming and it is effecting the environment. Whether the changing temperatures are due to man or nature, I really don't know; however, I do know that the ice shelf in Antarctica is shrinking at a dramatic rate and it is affecting the animal (and bird) populations. We (Bill Handel and family) will be doing another group trip to Antarctica in December 2009. I will be anxious to see the differences from my last trip in January 2004. On this trip we will also be going to South Georgia Island, where I'm told elephant seal pups are friendly and slide right up to you for a litt...
The skull of an adult male southern elephant seal sits on a desk in a small office on the University of Maine campus in Orono. It is a large skull, about a foot and a half long if it were all in one piece. The seal was discovered intact, mostly frozen, in the soil of Antarctica. It was about 14 feet long and would have weighed 2 to 3 tons or more. The skull and the skeleton it belongs to are probably at least 1,000 years old, but tests are still being done to determine its age.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - If we don't deal with climate change decisively, "what we're talking about then is extended world war," eminent economist Lord Nicholas Stern said. His audience Saturday was stranded by bad weather and were talking climate. They couldn't do much about the one, but the other was in their hands. And so, Stern said, was the potential for mass migrations setting off mass conflict.
AUGUSTA - Paul Mayewski has visited remote reaches of the planet, leading expeditions to collect snow samples and ice cores in an effort to reconstruct the planet's climate history. The research, which has taken Mayewski to the Andes Mountains, Antarctica, the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau and elsewhere, is geared at understanding modern-day climate change.
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