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Antarctic Sun Articles, Week March 17th, 2008
last update: Mar 21, 2008 10:04 AM
News articles from the Antarctic Sun, week commencing March 17th February 2008
This week the following articles can be found in the Antarctic Sun:
Managed Protection
Researchers studying the effects of climate change around the Antarctic Peninsula have data stretching back nearly 35 years. To protect the fragile ecosystem and the integrity of this natural laboratory, the U.S. Antarctic Program has proposed creating an Antarctic Specially Managed Area for the marine-based region.
Special Areas
Environmental protection of Antarctica has long been a cornerstone of international policy, and many areas of special interest enjoy additional safeguards under various designations that dictate how national programs manage those sites. The management plans for six sites overseen by the U.S. Antarctic Program, called Antarctic Specially Protected Areas, are being tightened to further protect their special environmental values.
SPT Upgrades Sensors
The South Pole Telescope was constructed during the 2006-07 austral summer. The following winter, the telescope achieved what scientists call "first light" (meaning, it worked), found two quasars (bright objects that may represent massive, radiation-emitting black holes at the center of a galaxy), and spied some small, dark spots that represent galaxy clusters. Now it's time to start really unraveling the mysteries of the universe.
Practically Home
The opportunity to recover his collection of chamber music that he left in Antarctica in the 1950s never never presented itself, despite 15 trips to the Ice over six different decades, a total of 18 field seasons. Now, at age 78, Charles Bentley is back in Antarctica, the principal investigator with Ice Core Drilling Services (ICDS) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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