RESEARCH/ers
"Hats off" to the researchers who brave the Antarctic to return new knowledge! (This particularly adventurous soul was plunging into near-freezing waters at Palmer Station, in high spirits just before a research ship sailed for home. Of course, this is not officially encouraged but it's a testament to the kind of people who venture south in search of information that can be discovered nowhere else.)
For more mainstream (sic) science, read on...
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Antarctica is the only continent on Earth dedicated completely to peaceful, scientific research. And because science and scientists are always discovering new things, what we find out in Antarctica is continually revealing amazing new results.
In this section of the website, you can meet some of the researchers who are part of the PASSPORT TO ANTARCTICA videos, and also explore research that's current and ongoing. Click links in the pages which follow to discover what's happening during the 2001-2002 research season.
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RESEARCH/ers is the place find out how recent research extends our knowledge of life in extremes...
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The latest information on the ozone hole and global climate change...
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Giant icebergs and how you can track them via the Internet...
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New insights into the early universe, discovered here in Antarctica with instruments flown aboard giant balloons, and using new telescopes...
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...and a look at some of the technology and engineering going into the renovation of America's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station!
