* Antarctic Sciences
Section * U.S. Antarctic Program
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Antarctic
Related Links
U.S.
Antarctic Program sites
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Raytheon Polar Services Company (U.S. Antarctic
Program support and logistics contractor)
- Polar
Ice (Participant On-Line Antarctic Resource Information Coordination
Environment—an
online application, operated by Raytheon Polar
Services Company for NSF, to enable researchers
to submit annual logistic and support needs and
to plan for field research in Antarctica)
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University NAVSTAR
Consortium, Polar Programs (UNAVCO) provides high-precision GPS
technology support to the U.S. Antarctic Program.
Surveying, mapping, and other GPS support services are
available to NSF-funded scientific investigators
working in Antarctica.
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U.S. Federal government
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Selected NSF-supported projects
- Links to pages by NSF
grantees conducting research in Antarctica (This page
is maintained by Raytheon Polar Support
Company.)
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Antarctic Geologic
Database,
Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University (An
on-line database that allows loading, storage, search,
and retrieval of information on Antarctic rock
samples)
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Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array
(AMANDA), University of California, Berkeley
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AMANDA, University of Wisconsin
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Antarctic Meteorology Research Center and Antarctic
Weathers Stations Project at University of
Wisconsin
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Antarctic Research Facility at Florida State
University
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Antarctic Search for
Meteorites Program (ANSMET), Case Western
Reserve University
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Antarctic Working Group
for Geology and Geophysics (ANTWGGG)
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Center for Astrophysical
Research in Antarctica
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Expedition Antarctica (Hamilton College antarctic
research site)
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Joint Australian Centre
for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
(JACARA)
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McMurdo Dry Valleys
Long-Term Ecologic Research site
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Palmer Station Long-Term
Ecological Research site
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Glacier at Rice University
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Seismic Experiment in Patagonia and Antarctica,
Washington University in St. Louis
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Southern Ocean GLOBEC
information
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Ross Island Meteorology Experiment (RIME) (A basic
and applied research program that will explore in
detail the atmospheric processes over Antarctica and
their interactions with lower latitudes via the Ross
sea sector beginning in 2005)
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University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics,
Antarctic Projects
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U.S. Antarctic Data
Coordination Center, National Snow and Ice Data Center, is
supported by NSF/OPP to improve access U.S.-funded
antarctic scientific data by creating descriptions for
these data and entering them into the
Antarctic Master Directory (AMD), a node of the
International Directory Network/Global Change Master
Directory (IDN/GCMD). The AMD is a Web-based,
searchable directory containing data descriptions
(metadata in the form of DIF entries).
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The West Antarctica Ice
Sheet Initiative (WAIS)
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Antarctic Treaty related information and
organizations
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Information resources
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Polar Regions
Related Links
U.S.
Federal government
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U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
is the DOS focal point for foreign policy formulation
and implementation in global environment, science, and
technology issues, including
arctic and
antarctic policy.
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Air National Guard of
New York, 109th Air Wing provides air support to the U.S.
Antarctic Program and to U.S. researchers working in
Greenland.
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Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
(CRREL), US Army Corps of Engineers.
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National Snow and Ice Data Coordination Center,
University of Colorado.
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National Ice Center (a multi-agency operational
center representing the U.S. Navy, NOAA, and Coast
Guard, which provides worldwide sea ice analyses and
forecasts to government and private organizations
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NASA Goddard Space Flight
CenterEarth Sciences Directorate
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National Ice Core
Laboratory
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National
and international organizations
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Universities
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Polar Science Center at Applied Physics Laboratory,
University of Washington.
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Ice Coring and Drilling Services, University of
Wisconsin-Madison. ICDS provides ice-coring and
drilling services to NSF-sponsored researchers both in
polar regions and at high-altitude sites and maintains,
operates, and develops new ice-coring systems when
needed.
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Byrd Polar Research Center , Ohio State
University.
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U.S. Polar Rock
Repository (Supported by NSF, the repository will
house rock collections of U.S. scientists from
Antarctica and the Arctic, along with materials
such as field notes, annotated aerial photos and
maps, raw analytic data, paleomagnetic cores,
ground rock and mineral residues, thin sections,
and microfossil mounts, microslides, and
residues)
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Arctic and Antarctic Research Center, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography (an archive of more
than 70,000 satellite overpasses of the Arctic and
Antarctic)
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Information resources
- Cold Regions
Bibliography Project is supported by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) and the Cold Regions Research
and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) under an NSF
cooperative agreement (OPP 99-09727) to the American
Geological Institute (AGI). AGI maintains the
Antarctic Bibliography and the
Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and
Technology. From 1951 to 1998, the Library of
Congress was responsible for the project. This earlier
information can be found at the
Cold Regions Bibliography Project,
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Polar Web (a cooperative project of the Polar
Libraries Colloquy and the Arctic Center at the
University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland)
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Directory of Polar and Cold Regions Organizations,
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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CRREL Virtual Cold Regions Library (Links to
antarctic, arctic, and polar information resources from
around the world. Maintained by the Cold Regions
Research and Engineering Laboratory Library)
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