The WAIS is the West Antarctic one of these; many are worried about its future
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The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse ...  Mar 16, 2015 ... The idea of warm ocean water eroding the ice in West Antarctica, what we're finding is ... In its alignment with the land and the sea, the Totten Glacier is similar to the West ... One of these canyons is three miles wide, in a region that was previously ... retreat underway in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).
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Scientists declare an 'urgent' mission  study West Antarctica, and fast  Sep 29, 2015 ... Scientists declare an 'urgent' mission  study West Antarctica, and fast ... The glacier is not one that most Americans will have even heard of  Thwaites ... be activated in the near future, with the possible exception of Thwaites, Richard Alley, ... It's not just U.S. scientific authorities worrying about Thwaites.
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Ice Sheets, Rising Seas and Global Warming - American Institute of ...  (1980s-2004) - Greenland and Pine Island - Storm Surges and the Future .... A West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse could be very rapid, Mercer said. ... Mercer published his worries in an obscure conference report, and although he wrote ..... One meter of sea-level rise might not sound like much, but in many areas it would...
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet - Wikipedia  The Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West (or Lesser) Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of the Transantarctic Mountains which lies in the Western Hemisphere. The WAIS is classified as a marine-based ice sheet, meaning that its bed lies ... Many of these sediments were deposited before the ice sheet occupied the...
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What is Happening to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet? | West Antarctic ...  For many of the last thirty years, the West Antarctic ice sheet has been in the ... Do its fringing ice shelves or its marine base make it inherently unstable? ... Figure 1. West Antarctica is a tightly coupled, dynamic environment. The size of the ice ... These features indicate grounded ice streams deformed the basal till as the ice...
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Scott of the Antarctic: the lies that doomed his race to the pole | UK ...  Sep 24, 2011 ... Far from being a heroic amateur as he's so often portrayed the explorer ... of Scott's expedition who made it to the South Pole in 1912, but died on the return. .... old plan to sail the Fram round Cape Horn and back north to Alaska and the ... then Amundsen would not have lied and headed south," says Cox.
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Antarctica - National Geographic Society  Jan 4, 2012 ... McMurdo Station, operated by the United States Antarctic Program: 1,000 people ... Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent in terms of total area. ... Antarctica is a unique continent in that it does not have a native population. There are no countries in Antarctica, although seven nations claim different parts of it:...
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One of these covers the South Pole & some nervous folks worry ...  Jul 8, 2016 ... W Gorgeous George was one of these combatants # Quiz # Question ... Like Camelot's Excalibur, Middle-Earth's Sting is one of these # Quiz #...
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Southern Ocean - Wikipedia  The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World .... In the 1928 first edition of Limits of Oceans and Seas, the Southern Ocean was delineated by .... was inspired by a belief in the existence of a Terra Australisa vast continent in the far south of...
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Free Flashcards about EQUATOR - StudyStack  SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE WEST PART OF THIS CONTINENT WOULD BE AN ARCHIPELAGO IF THE ICE WERE REMOVED, ANTARCTICA. THIS 350'...
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Bird Watching | Oceanwide Expeditions  If you know that a certain kind of bird nests, for example, within rocky cliff crevices then you'll ... Here are the general steps you take for identification: ... Does it have an easy time taking off from land or does it prefer to get in the water first so it has a .... Peter I Island, the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas into the Ross Sea.
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Modelling the response of the Lambert GlacierAmery Ice Shelf ...  Jun 18, 2014 ... system, East Antarctica, to uncertain climate forcing over the 21st ... the large polar ice sheet regions is a key process in global ... The grounded portion of the system is thought to ... The AIS has long been considered a stable ice shelf that is currently .... The melt rate is decomposed into grounding line local-.
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BSA Antarctic Scientific Program - Boy Scouts of America  The Antarctic Scout will join teams of scientists conducting research during expeditions ... Antarctica, the continent lying around the South Pole, has an area of 5.4 million ... In summer the sea ice occupies less than two million square miles. ... (ice strengthener) and the 308-foot research icebreaker, Nathaniel B. Palmer.
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press release - Census of Marine Life  Jul 29, 2005 ... Arctic and Antarctic project leaders, together with Chief Scientist Dr. ... August 1-3 for advance interviews. ... an American ice cutter. .... of ice sheet (3,250 square kilometers, about the size of Rhode Island) ... off the coast of Antarctica, and the Scotia Sea (between South America's furthest ... near-threatened.
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A Dip in the Cold - The New Yorker  Apr 21, 2008 ... I wanted to know whether my body could tolerate extreme cold. ... He was waiting on the shores of Christiania Fjord to greet Fridtjof Nansen, who had returned to ... What I really needed to worry about, he said, was the walrus. ... If I were swimming, it would be too high for me to reach up and pull myself out.
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Polar Genre Fiction - Barnard College - Physics and Astronomy  Apr 4, 2016 ... Selected fiction with Polar, Antarctic, or Arctic themes, especially genre ... cover story in Fantastic Science Fiction; aliens visit IGY Antarctica ... N, 1971, Bear Island, Alistair MacLean, murder of movie crew on Arctic island .... N, 1982, Athabasca, Alistair MacLean, sabotage in Canadian and Alaskan ice fields.
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Race to The End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South ...  Editorial Reviews. From Booklist. MacPhee is the curator of an exhibit running May .... Scott appears more defeated and beat than on the classic South Pole shot .... (for which they got there almost a month post-Amundsen) ... it was, as one of his ... Extraordinary documentary adventure of the race to be first to the South Pole,...
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Proceedings of the Beijing symposium, 2013  Mass losses from the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) will be partially responsible for future ..... In this model, the basin has been divided into 18 elevation bands ranging from an ..... on glacial runoff variations, partly because a large portion of precipitation on ..... West Antarctica) and LambertAmery System (LAS, East Antarctica).
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The Oceans Are Coming Ashore | Worldwatch Institute  First Name: * ... After his neighbors saw how well the mangroves worked as natural fish ... Designed as large pyramids, they provide excellent cover for a host of marine life. ... "Even a half-meter rise would cause serious erosion problems, despite the ... Millions more would be forced out of their homes in Sri Lanka, Burma,...
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"The Media's Role in High Risk Conditions ... - Institute of Politics  nition of the threat posed by the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant .... 5. How can public officials acknowledge the uncertainty involved in a crisis ... as shown at Three Mile Island in the critical days of late Marchearly April 1979. ...... of radiation, pregnant women and children should leave the area within a five- mile...
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Antarctic Treaty | 1959 | Britannica.com  1, 1959), agreement signed by 12 nations, in which the Antarctic continent was made a demilitarized zone to be preserved for scientific research. ... Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the United States, and the Soviet Union. ... weapons (including nuclear weapons), or disposing of radioactive wastes in the area.