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Summer Days Are Over

By John Whiteman · September 24, 2009 ·

LARAMIE, WYOMING-- Shortly after my last posting, I received a phone call on a Tuesday evening from my collaborators who are based in Anchorage, Alaska. One of the bears which we sampled last May had been active near the town of Kaktovik, on the Arctic coast... {Read More »}

First Look

By John Cassano · September 21, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- We’ve completed our second successful science flight to Terra Nova Bay Friday night into Saturday morning. This was a 16.5 hour flight… {Read More »}

Terra Nova Bay or Bust

By John Cassano · September 16, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- It has been a slow, and sometimes frustrating, effort to get our first successful science flight of the project, but we did succeed last night... {Read More »}

The Melting Arctic Ice

By John Whiteman · July 7, 2009 ·

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LARAMIE, WYOMING-- While I am spending the summer back at the University of Wyoming, the Arctic summer is in full swing. Sea ice breakup has accelerated, and Arctic ice extent declined rapidly throughout June... {Read More »}

Returning Home

By John Whiteman · May 26, 2009 ·

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LARAMIE, WYOMING-- During last week, the weather steadily turned from cold and overcast to warm and sunny. On the first day of good conditions we launched in the morning and captured a bear shortly thereafter... {Read More »}

Getting By Without Food

By John Whiteman · May 8, 2009 ·

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DEADHORSE, ALASKA-- Polar bears specialize in hunting seals and seals provide most, if not all, of the polar bear diet. During summer, some bears... {Read More »}

Springtime in the Arctic

By John Whiteman · May 1, 2009 ·

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DEADHORSE, ALASKA-- Spring has arrived in this part of the Arctic. In the last ten days, temperatures have risen from -20 to +45 Fahrenheit –… {Read More »}

To Capture a Polar Bear

By John Whiteman · April 24, 2009 ·

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DEADHORSE, ALASKA-- Currently, the best scientific estimate of the worldwide population of polar bears is about 20,000 to 25,000 animals. This population – which is “circumpolar” and stretches all the way around the Arctic – is... {Read More »}

The Bears of Summer

Summer is a critical time for polar bears and climate change is lengthening Arctic summers. {Read More »}

Penguins’ Best Friends Are Minke Whales

By David Ainley · January 14, 2009 ·

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CAPE ROYDS, ANTARCTICA-- I’m sure Inuits have a name for it, but otherwise it’s the fizzing sound as great expanses of ice dissolve so rapidly that any air still between its spaces or molecules is released into the atmosphere. We heard that sound... {Read More »}

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