Presented by Explo.TV http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/index.php Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:30:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt (info@mypapit.net) http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/images/logos/explo_tv_small.jpg http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/index.php Feed provided Explo.TV. Click to visit. http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists! The Exploratorium has sent a team of media producers down to Antarctica to report back on current science going on there. In today’s webcast, we will be talking to Robin Bell from the AGAP (Antarctic Gamburtsev Province) expedition. The AGAP expedition will be the first systematic study of our planet's last unexplored mountain range lying up to 2-1/2 miles under the most massive ice sheet on Earth. The mountain range is near Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility, the most remote part of the most remote continent on Earth. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ We’ll be talking to Dr. Stephen Pekar, a geology professor at Queens College, City University of New York, and team leader of the Offshore New Harbor Expedition. His research focuses on climate and oceanic changes that occurred millions of years ago when the earth was much warmer than today. **This show is not confirmed, please check back for updates. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In today’ webcast, we will be speaking with Paul Ponganis, who has studied emperor penguins in the field for more than 20 years. At Penguin Ranch in Antarctica, Ponganis and his team study penguin physiology and oxygen regulation in birds. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ In today’s webcast we will be talking with marine biologist Stacy Kim from the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Dr. Kim studies benthic ecology – how animals that live on and in the seafloor interact in communities -- and is using a small camera-equipped remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to investigate the bottom-dwelling creatures under the sea ice. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In conjunction with the screening of the film Ice People, we will host a live webcast from Antarctica with some of the scientists featured in the film. Ice People heads out into the “deep field” with noted geologists Allan Ashworth and Adam Lewis, and two undergrad scientists-in-the-making, where they scour across hundreds of miles to find tiny, critical signs of ancient life. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In today’s webcast, we will be speaking with glaciologist and professor Slawek Tulaczyk, who studies ice-sheet dynamics. Understanding how large polar ice sheets behave in a warming world is an important but relatively unknown factor that may dramatically affect sea level and other consequences of climate change. **This show is not confirmed, please check back for updates. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In today’s webcast, we will be connecting with the South Pole, and talking to scientists from the IceCube project. IceCube uses the world’s largest neutrino telescope, buried in the ice below the South Pole, to detect violent events in distant galaxies. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In today’s webcast we go back to the South Pole, to speak with scientists working on the South Pole Telescope project. The 30 foot (10 m) South Pole Telescope was built in 2006/2007, finished in 2007/2008, and is now collecting data about the mysterious cosmological force of dark energy. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In today’s program, we will be talking to photographer John Weller, who will be scuba diving under the ice in Antarctica in November and early December 2008. John will share his experiences and images as we learn more about all the exciting things going on below the surface of McMurdo Sound and the Ross Sea. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In today’s webcast, our intrepid Exploratorium team will share experiences from their tour of Robert S. Falcon’s historic Discovery Hut near McMurdo Station. They will travel there with New Zealand scientists who are studying the condition of these well-preserved but endangered relics of the golden age of exploration. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In today’s webcast we will be speaking to scientists from the POLENET project. During the International Polar Year, scientists and engineers from 28 countries are instrumenting the length and breadth of Antarctica and Greenland to form a network of sensors, called POLENET (Polar Earth Observing Network) that will continuously monitor the earth beneath the ice. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In today’s program, we will be speaking with biologist David Ainley, who has been studying Adélie penguins in Antarctica for more than 25 years. David and his team spread out to three different Adélie breeding colonies on the Ross Sea in November 2008, to conduct on-going research with the Adélie penguin populations. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. In today’s program, our Exploratorium team will report back on a trip to the Dry Valleys, a unique polar desert ecosystem nearly devoid of snow. The team’s plans include traveling to the Dry Valley's Lake Hoare by helicopter and interviewing biologists, glaciologists and geologists who are part of the McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research project. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Stay tuned for program topic Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100 http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/ Welcome to another season of Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. We have come to the end of our webcasting season from Antarctica, so tune in to hear our wrap up stories, as well as what it is like to spend the holidays in one of the most remote regions on the planet! Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:01 +0100