
	Where results make sense

Topic: United States Antarctic Program

Related Topics

Antartica

	:: NASA Quest > Archives :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The United States Antarctic Research Program aims to increase understanding of the Antarctic region and its relationship to the rest of the planet.
		Objectives are to understand the structure and function of Antarctic marine ecosystems; to determine the major features and adaptations of organisms; and to add to knowledge of their distribution, abundance, and dynamics.
		Research objectives are to improve understanding of physical processes of the atmosphere, to determine the relationship between events and conditions in the Antarctic atmosphere and global events, and to determine the region's role in past and present global climate.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /antarctica2/main/t_guide/goals.html (496 words)

	Antarctica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Antarctic Peninsula was formed by uplift and metamorphism of sea-bed sediments during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic eras.
		The Antarctic fur seal was very heavily hunted in the 18th and 19th centuries for its pelt by sealers from the United States and the United Kingdom.
		Antarctic krill, which congregates in large schools, is the keystone species of the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean, and is an important food organism for whales, seals, leopard seals, fur seals, squid, icefish, penguins, albatrosses and many other birds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antarctic (4985 words)

	PDD/NSC-26 - US Antarctica Policy [1994]
		The success of the Antarctic Treaty and the achievement of United States interests through it rest upon the year round presence in Antarctica maintained by the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), the program of scientific research and associated logistics funded and managed by the National Science Foundation.
		United States presence at the South Pole Station demonstrates United States commitment to assert its rights in Antarctica, its basis of claim, and its commitment to conduct cutting edge scientific research there.
		However, funding decisions on the United States Antarctic Program must be based on the fact that it is a national program that serves important foreign policy and national objectives as well as basic scientific, environmental and economic interests.
	www.fas.org /irp/offdocs/pdd26.htm (991 words)

	Research In A Deep Freeze - United States Antarctic Program USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education) - Find ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The United States Antarctic Program is a rich source of scientific exploration, providing numerous discoveries about the planet and the universe.
		Antarctica is governed by the Antarctic Treaty that went into effect in 1961 as a means of allowing the peaceful uses of the continent in the face of conflicting territorial claims.
		USAP leases an ice-strengthened ship, the R/V Laurence M. Gould, to bring people and supplies to Palmer Station, as well as to serve as a research vessel in the waters of the peninsula.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2670_129/ai_72272574 (909 words)

	Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
		The Antarctic Treaty arose as a way of settling the disputes that ensued from the competing territorial claims of the early national Antarctic expeditions.
		The Antarctic Convergence is the boundary around the Antarctic in which Antarctic Bottom Water, the cold dense water of the Southern Ocean—formed when ice shelves melt and the water sinks to the ocean floor—is drawn north away from the Antarctic continent where it meets warmer water and sinks underneath it.
		The Antarctic Convergence profoundly influences the climates and ecosystems of the islands surrounding Antarctica.
	main.wgbh.org /imax/shackleton/antarctica.html (1615 words)

	U.S. Antarctic Program: Welcome to the USAP Portal
		The USAP carries forward the Nation's goal of supporting the Antarctic Treaty, fostering cooperative research with other nations, protecting the Antarctic environment, and conserving living resources.
		The USAP supports a new South Pole Station webcam that is focused on different areas of the station to allow USAP participants, scientists, and the general public to view real-time activity and geophysical rarities at the South Pole.
		The first-ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet concludes the ice sheet's mass has decreased significantly from 2002 to 2005...
	www.usap.gov (883 words)

	United States Antarctic Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the continent of Antarctica.
		The U.S. Antarctic Program, funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, supports only that research that can be done exclusively in Antarctica or that can be done best from Antarctica.
		Currently, the USAP maintains 3 year round research stations in Antarctica (McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, and Palmer Station), as well as several seasonal field camps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Antarctic_Program (221 words)

	Antarctica
		One goal of this training program is to provide new investigators with insights into the logistical issues of undertaking research in Antarctica and to encourage new ideas for unique biological research on organisms living in extreme environments in Antarctica.
		The on-site laboratories are equipped with excellent capital equipment for studying organisms at different levels of biological organization, ranging from molecular biology, to biochemistry, to physiology, and for studies of species diversity.
		During daily lectures, faculty and guest lecturers will provide introductions and overviews of polar natural history, Antarctic oceanography, and the evolutionary considerations of biological adaptations to an extreme cold environment that is subjected to months of winter darkness followed by constant summer light.
	antarctica.usc.edu (974 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The presence of the United States in Antarctica is a key element of the stability in the region.
		The NSF Antarctic budget is simply not adequate to fund in entirety the periodic major capital expenditures demanded by an activity with the scale of the U.S. Antarctic Program.
		Antarctic turns out, for various reasons, to be a fine place to find meteorites, such as the one that recently suggested at least the possibility of very primitive life forms on Mars.
	commdocs.house.gov /committees/science/hsy071002.000/hsy071002_0.HTM (15499 words)

	[No title]
		The USAP issues a wide variety of equipment, some of which is very specific to polar work, such as the Scott Polar tent.
		Antarctic Driver's Licenses are obtained from the MEC.
		The atmosphere over the Antarctic is shallower than it is at the equator; therefore, the heights of cloud layers are lower.
	www.sarinfo.bc.ca /Library/Skills/AntarcticSurvival.skl (21173 words)

	Tenth Anniversary of the Protocol on Environmental Protection of Antarctic
		The United States maintains three year-round research stations in Antarctica: McMurdo on Ross Island, Amundsen-Scott South Pole, and Palmer on Anvers Island.
		The U.S. Antarctic Program's longstanding commitment to environmental protection and stewardship has been demonstrated in a proactive program of careful waste management and recycling.
		The Convention, which entered into force in 1982, seeks to ensure that any harvesting of Antarctic marine living resources is consistent both with the health of the target population and with that of dependent and related species.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2001/5214.htm (719 words)

	News >> Antarctic Research of Creighton University Professors Highlighted by U.S. Antarctic Program Publication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Antarctic Sun, a newletter published for personnel at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, for the United States Antarctic Program, recently highlighted the research efforts of Department of Biomedical Sciences professors Drs.
		The Antarctic Sun is funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the United States Antarctic Program (OPP-000373).
		Its primary audience is U.S. Antarctic Program participants, their families, and their friends.
	www.biomedsci.creighton.edu /news/2003_antsun.html (518 words)

	FUTURE OF ANTARCTIC RESEARCH
		The United States Program in Antarctica has been recognized by the international science community as providing the leadership role in Antarctic science since the IGY.
		The funds allowed a greatly accelerated pace to the program that began on a small scale in the 1970s and was continued into the 1980s.
		The USAP is an essential part of global research, it requires at a minimum, the logistical effort currently available and the replacement of South Pole Station in the next 5-10 years.
	www.house.gov /science/robert_rutford_7-23.htm (2096 words)

	Antarctic Scientific Program
		The United States and other nations active in Antarctica are determined to understand the nature of Antarctica, its uniquely adapted life forms, and its relationship with the rest of "Spaceship Earth." In the U.S. program, some 600 investigators perform approximately 125 research projects per year.
		It is the U.S. program's logistics hub, with a harbor, landing strips on sea ice and shelf ice, and a helicopter pad.
		The National Science Foundation is the United States government agency charged with maintaining U.S. strength in scientific research; improving science, mathematics, and engineering education; and aiding in the dissemination of scientific information.
	www.scouting.org /boyscouts/resources/18-900/index.html (1285 words)

	Origins: Antarctica: People: Women in Antarctica: page 2
		In the United States in 1969, the Navy lifted its ban, and officials at the NSF began inviting female scientists to submit research proposals.
		Finally, during the 1969-1970 season, the first women were included in the United States Antarctic Program.
		Christine Muller-Schwarze, a Ph.D. psychologist from Utah State University, became the first woman to work with the U.S. Antarctic Research Program, studying penguin behavior in Antarctica along with her scientist husband.
	www.exploratorium.edu /origins/antarctica/people/women2.html (348 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Once at the station, there are short lectures on laboratory and field safety programs and waste management so that the research is conducted in a safe and environmentally responsible way.
		A program officer at the Foundation sends copies of the proposal to six or eight scientists who specialize in the kind of research proposed, and these scientists do what is called a peer review--writing comments on a 1-page form and giving the proposal a grade of Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, or Poor.
		So, every taxpayer and his or her family is a part owner of the United States Antarctic Program.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /antarctica/QA/careers/Careers (1273 words)

	USGS International Program - United States Antarctic Resource Center (USARC)
		The U.S. Antarctic Resource Center (USARC) at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Reston, Va., maintains the Nation's most comprehensive collection of Antarctic maps, charts, satellite images, and photographs produced by the United States and other member nations of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
		The USARC's extensive collection of Antarctic maps and charts are produced by the United States and other nations that are members of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
		The USARC is the United States contribution to the SCAR Library system and is managed through an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation to provide support to the USGS for mapping and geodetic activities for the U.S. Antarctic Program.
	international.usgs.gov /projects/aa-usarc.htm (363 words)

	U.S. Antarctic Program - U.S. Embassy Wellington, New Zealand
		New Zealand and the United States are among the original 12 signatories of the Antarctic Treaty, which entered into force in 1961.
		Additionally, both countries are signatories to the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals, the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, and the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.
		The NSF has been in Christchurch since 1976, and anchors the International Antarctic Center that also houses offices backstopping New Zealand and Italy's Antarctic programs.
	newzealand.usembassy.gov /us_antarctic.html (435 words)

	"THE FUTURE OF ANTARCTIC RESEARCH" - Honorable Robert B. Pirie, Jr.
		In 1959, the United States signed the Antarctic Treaty which preserved freedom of access to the continent and its surrounding waters for all nations, prohibited all military activities on the continent, and reserved Antarctica for science and other peaceful purposes.
		In 1976, National Security Decision Memorandum Number 318 directed that the U. Antarctic Program be fully managed by the National Science Foundation, who would budget for all science and logistic functions and reimburse any other agencies supporting the program.
		I have asked Rear Admiral Paul Tobin, Oceanographer of the Navy, to visit Antarctic this season to observe firsthand the Navy, Air National Guard and commercial operations to ensure that the transition is proceeding smoothly.
	www.firebirds.org /menu7/mn7_p12.htm (2166 words)

	WBUR.ORG - Antarctica Special
		As part of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, no non-indigenous species (besides humans) are allowed on the continent.
		Two years later, the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was agreed on, which bans mining on Antarctica for at least 50 years.
		In area, Antarctica is almost one and a half the size of the United States.
	www.wbur.org /special/antarctica/research (1017 words)

	USAP/NMNH Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The SOSC was dissolved, in 1992, and merged into the relevant NMNH scientific departments, with administrative responsibility for the USAP collection assigned to the Department of Invertebrate Zoology.
		The Department, in 1995, entered into a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs to provide support for the cataloging and management of the USAP collections housed at NMNH.
		Antarctic Journal of the United States, 1997 (Vol.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /iz/usap (257 words)

	Upper Atmosphere Physics Science
		At the Antarctic observatories, the signals from many of the instruments are recorded together on a common data logger, and the data are shared among the Principal Investigators (PI's) providing the data, as well as with colleagues operating elsewhere.
		At 1-AU (astronomical unit - the mean distance of the earth from the sun) the solar wind plasma density is about ten particles per cubic centimeter, the solar wind speed is about 400 km/s, and the magnitude of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is about 10 nT.
		Since the riometer program is directed toward ionospheric phenomena associated with the precipitation of auroral electrons into the atmosphere, the principal optical instruments that provide complementary measurements are the photometers and all-sky cameras.
	www.polar.umd.edu /UAPscience.html (2254 words)

	Antarctica Pointers
		Antarctic Development Squadron Six - conducting safe and efficient flight operations with highly trained professionals in support of the United States Antarctic Program.
		Antarctic Seismic Data Library System for Cooperative Research - provides open access worldwide to Antarctic multichannel seismic-reflection data collected by many countries to study the structure of the earth's crust of Antarctica.
		British Antarctic Survey - is responsible for all of the British Government's scientific research in the Antarctic, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands.
	polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu /polarpointers/Antarctica.html (1109 words)

	Records of the Chief of Naval Operations, Oceanographer of the Navy
		In 1954, the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) was initiated.
		The aerial support unit, Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6), was based out of Port Hueneme, CA and used LC-130 supply aircraft and UH-1N Hueys.
		Series II consists of slides that were used to brief various personnel about the Navy's Antarctic support mission, including the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems and the Vice Chief of Naval Operations.
	www.history.navy.mil /ar/oscar/oceanographer.htm (760 words)

	USGS TerraWeb: Antarctica Internet Resources
		Antarctic Support Associates - Under contract to the National Science Foundation (NSF), ASA provides a wide range of science support to the United States Antarctic Program.
		The Antarctic Connection: A commercial site interested in providing educational and informative as well as fun and entertaining products related to the Antarctic.
		The Antarctic Sun News published during the austral summer for the United States Antarctic Program at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
	terraweb.wr.usgs.gov /TRS/projects/Antarctica (458 words)

	GlobalTower.com: Antarctica
		News published during the austral summer for the United States Antarctic Program at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
		Administering Australia's wide-ranging activities in antarctic and subantarctic regions is the responsibility of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), a part of the Australian Government's Department of the Environment and Heritage.
		The CMDL South Pole Observatory maintains monitoring programs in greenhouse and other trace gases, atmospheric aerosols, solar radiation variability, stratospheric ozone and meteorological parameters, and conducts field programs to understand chemical changes in the Antarctic region that might impact climate and global change.
	www.globaltower.com /pages/polarregions/antarctica.html (747 words)

	Big Dead Place :: Welcome to the Program
		In fact, the main purpose of the United States Antarctic Program, as stated by an external panel report published by NSF, is to establish a physical and political presence.
		But because the psychologist is in a position to terminate your contract on a whim, it may be in your favor to temporarily imagine the psychologist not as a glorified HR clerk, but as a respected authority with legitimate expertise.
		Though apparently both of these types have no trouble passing the USAP Psyche Eval, the psychotic at least provides the community a few laughs and occasionally a little excitement to spruce up the daily grind, while the controlling neurotic is the daily grind.
	www.bigdeadplace.com /welcome.html (2782 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)