Saturday, October 27, 2007

News From Antartica


The Antarctic Sun: Extinct Hunt: "A second significant warming might have occurred even earlier, between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago with evidence of elephant seal activity as much as 7,000 years in the past. This season, the group is looking for more samples for radiocarbon dating that will help it pinpoint this second period."

South Pole Fire School

It's a mild September day in Arvada, CO, a suburb west of Denver, with bluebird, cloudless skies. But the firefighter trainees are perspiring heavily in their yellow bunker gear, the sweat pouring off noses and down necks like candle wax melting.

The Antarctic Sun: South Pole Memorabilia: "Preserving Pole's past Station memorabilia gets new home in elevated station By Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor Photos by Andy Martinez and Terry Eddington Posted October 26, 2007 Visitors to the newly constructed, elevated station at the South Pole will surely marvel at the sheer magnitude of materials and manpower it took to erect one of the world’s most high-tech, scientific research facilities in the middle of Nowhere, Antarctica."




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