Why should people in Texas, Florida or New York care about the Poles? Why do penguins live down South, and polar bears only in the North? How can thousand-year old ice from the Arctic and Antarctic help us understand present and future climate? POLAR-PALOOZA features... The people who know the poles best - ice researchers, geologists, oceanographers, climate scientists, biologists and Arctic residents who will bring "Stories from a Changing Planet" to science centers and natural history museums across the country. In Fall 2007, POLAR-PALOOZA visits California, New Mexico, Florida, Georgia and Louisiana. The "High Definition Video Science Story Capture Corps" ("HDvCC" for short) is a team of intrepid videographers who will be accompanying the researchers on expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic. In 2007, they were taping in Alaska, out on the sea-ice off Prudhoe Bay, en route to the North Pole (they never made it - the runway broke up. Climate change?), and in Greenland, bringing you stories about the science, the people and their extreme adventures. Extensive online resources will appear on this site throughout the IPY years, including video and audio podcasts, blogs, vlogs (video bulletins), real-time interactions when and where possible, the latest data from the field, animations from NASA, and amazing sounds and images of sea, ice, land, animals and people. Podcasts, blogs, vlogs, and more... We'll be publishing a series of video and audio podcasts throughout IPY, with short video bulletins ("vlogs") sent back where possible from the HDvCC taping trips. Scientists and Alaskan Natives will speak for themselves in blogs, accompanied by images of sea, ice, land, animals and people. An invitation to get active and interactive... Many of our videos of penguins and polar bears, glaciers and ice-breakers, plus NASA images and animations of the Poles from space will be accessible for download, and we'll be inviting students young and old to mash-up and re-mix the videos to compete in the POLAR-PALOOZA podcast contest, with entries judged on scientific accuracy as well as production values. The POLAR-PALOOZA Portal And, of course, we'll link to the best IPY sites and resources, both US and international, along with hands-on activities for school, home or science center, and other podcasts, wikis, and projects. Sponsors POLAR-PALOOZA is made possible by support from the National Science Foundation, and by NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and is an official IPY activity. POLAR-PALOOZA is produced by PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE, P2K, which is solely responsible for its content.

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