Author: Sara L. Latta
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766069672
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Do you like the cold? Do you like solving mysteries and discovering answers? Are you interested in Earth's history? Then a career as an polar scientist might be for you! Through case studies and interviews, you'll discover what it means to be a polar scientist, studying the ice for answers to some of history's biggest questions.
Polar Scientists
Author: Sara L. Latta
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766069672
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Do you like the cold? Do you like solving mysteries and discovering answers? Are you interested in Earth's history? Then a career as an polar scientist might be for you! Through case studies and interviews, you'll discover what it means to be a polar scientist, studying the ice for answers to some of history's biggest questions.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766069672
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Do you like the cold? Do you like solving mysteries and discovering answers? Are you interested in Earth's history? Then a career as an polar scientist might be for you! Through case studies and interviews, you'll discover what it means to be a polar scientist, studying the ice for answers to some of history's biggest questions.
The Polar Bear Scientists
Author: Peter Lourie
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547283059
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Young readers can follow scientists as they scan the Alaskan wilderness for these magnificent creatures. Full color.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547283059
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Young readers can follow scientists as they scan the Alaskan wilderness for these magnificent creatures. Full color.
Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309103215
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The United States has enduring national and strategic interests in the polar regions, including citizens living above the Arctic circle and three year-round scientific stations in the Antarctic. Polar icebreaking ships are needed to access both regions. Over the past several decades, the U.S. government has supported a fleet of four icebreakersâ€"three multi-mission U.S. Coast Guard ships (the POLAR SEA, POLAR STAR, and HEALY) and the National Science Foundation's PALMER, which is dedicated solely to scientific research. Today, the POLAR STAR and the POLAR SEA are at the end of their service lives, and a lack of funds and no plans for an extension of the program has put U.S. icebreaking capability at risk. This report concludes that the United States should continue to support its interests in the Arctic and Antarctic for multiple missions, including maintaining leadership in polar science. The report recommends that the United States immediately program, budget, design, and construct two new polar icebreakers to be operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The POLAR SEA should remain mission capable and the POLAR STAR should remain available for reactivation until the new polar icebreakers enter service. The U.S. Coast Guard should be provided sufficient operations and maintenance budget to support an increased, regular, and influential presence in the Arctic, with support from other agencies. The report also calls for a Presidential Decision Directive to clearly align agency responsibilities and budgetary authorities.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309103215
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The United States has enduring national and strategic interests in the polar regions, including citizens living above the Arctic circle and three year-round scientific stations in the Antarctic. Polar icebreaking ships are needed to access both regions. Over the past several decades, the U.S. government has supported a fleet of four icebreakersâ€"three multi-mission U.S. Coast Guard ships (the POLAR SEA, POLAR STAR, and HEALY) and the National Science Foundation's PALMER, which is dedicated solely to scientific research. Today, the POLAR STAR and the POLAR SEA are at the end of their service lives, and a lack of funds and no plans for an extension of the program has put U.S. icebreaking capability at risk. This report concludes that the United States should continue to support its interests in the Arctic and Antarctic for multiple missions, including maintaining leadership in polar science. The report recommends that the United States immediately program, budget, design, and construct two new polar icebreakers to be operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The POLAR SEA should remain mission capable and the POLAR STAR should remain available for reactivation until the new polar icebreakers enter service. The U.S. Coast Guard should be provided sufficient operations and maintenance budget to support an increased, regular, and influential presence in the Arctic, with support from other agencies. The report also calls for a Presidential Decision Directive to clearly align agency responsibilities and budgetary authorities.
Science on Ice
Author: Chris Linder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226482477
Category : Adélie penguin
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An oceanographer and award-winning photographer, Linder chronicles four polar expeditions in this richly illustrated volume: to a teeming colony of Adľie penguins, through the icy waters of the Bering Sea in spring, beneath the pack ice of the eastern Arctic Ocean, and over the lake-studded surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226482477
Category : Adélie penguin
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An oceanographer and award-winning photographer, Linder chronicles four polar expeditions in this richly illustrated volume: to a teeming colony of Adľie penguins, through the icy waters of the Bering Sea in spring, beneath the pack ice of the eastern Arctic Ocean, and over the lake-studded surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Polar Scientist
Author: Emily Shuckburgh
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1406280216
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Find out what's involved in becoming a polar scientist from a top researcher in the field. You'll find out about the scientist's heroes, the equipment and skills she uses, and the challenges of conducting research and experiments in sub-zero temperatures!
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1406280216
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Find out what's involved in becoming a polar scientist from a top researcher in the field. You'll find out about the scientist's heroes, the equipment and skills she uses, and the challenges of conducting research and experiments in sub-zero temperatures!
Polar Scientists
Author: Sara L. Latta
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766069664
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Do you like the cold? Do you like solving mysteries and discovering answers? Are you interested in Earth's history? Then a career as an polar scientist might be for you! Through case studies and interviews, you'll discover what it means to be a polar scientist, studying the ice for answers to some of history's biggest questions.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766069664
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Do you like the cold? Do you like solving mysteries and discovering answers? Are you interested in Earth's history? Then a career as an polar scientist might be for you! Through case studies and interviews, you'll discover what it means to be a polar scientist, studying the ice for answers to some of history's biggest questions.
Globalizing Polar Science
Author: R. Launius
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230114652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230114652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour.
Polar Research
Author: Mary A. Mcwhinnie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000305910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Highlighting twenty years of U.S. scientific research conducted since the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58, this volume marks a turning point in the history of polar investigations and provides a lucid summary of the contributions of many distinguished scientists. The authors provide an overview of major polar research programs, past and present; explore concepts derived, from highly interrelated aspects of physical and life sciences; and seek to offer a glimpse of future polar science and polar development. The introduction briefly describes major physical, biological, and interdisciplinary research programs, as well as the magnitude, extent, and international character of contemporary polar science. Twenty years of polar biological investigations are then reviewed, and subsequent chapters address principles and advances in meteorology, physical oceanography, glaciology, and the geological evidence that hears on the origin of Antarctica. These physical sciences delineate a matrix for the polar biospheres and provide a background for understanding the major categories of structure and dynamic functioning of the marine ecosystem, polar marine mammals, adaptational physiology, and terrestrial biotic adaptations.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000305910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Highlighting twenty years of U.S. scientific research conducted since the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58, this volume marks a turning point in the history of polar investigations and provides a lucid summary of the contributions of many distinguished scientists. The authors provide an overview of major polar research programs, past and present; explore concepts derived, from highly interrelated aspects of physical and life sciences; and seek to offer a glimpse of future polar science and polar development. The introduction briefly describes major physical, biological, and interdisciplinary research programs, as well as the magnitude, extent, and international character of contemporary polar science. Twenty years of polar biological investigations are then reviewed, and subsequent chapters address principles and advances in meteorology, physical oceanography, glaciology, and the geological evidence that hears on the origin of Antarctica. These physical sciences delineate a matrix for the polar biospheres and provide a background for understanding the major categories of structure and dynamic functioning of the marine ecosystem, polar marine mammals, adaptational physiology, and terrestrial biotic adaptations.
Survivor's Science at the Polar Regions
Author: Peter D. Riley
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410902283
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the two polar regions, explains why people go to the polar regions, and shows what to do to survive in an emergency in a polar region.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410902283
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the two polar regions, explains why people go to the polar regions, and shows what to do to survive in an emergency in a polar region.