http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/newsItems/departments/history Contemporary news and web items that cover any aspect of the history of the IPYs. Fri, 24 May 2013 02:11:51 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 02:11:51 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss UserLand Frontier v9.5 60 (NASA press release, 22 April 2012) -- The fragile and rapidly changing Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. ... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-110 75e7c48e3abb65cb6cacb57c99b25938 Tue, 08 May 2012 00:28:05 GMT Arctic History Polar research: Reports and findings Amanda Graham (American Association for the Advancement of Science press release via EurekAlert!, 26 April 2012) -- An analysis of 5,000-year-old DNA taken from ... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/aaft-nsc042012.php 4692a565a0cd19d02b1ac02462ae065f Fri, 04 May 2012 20:13:55 GMT History News Polar research: Reports and findings Amanda Graham (University of Tromsø via ScienceNordic, 23 March 2012) -- Being a polar explorer was extremely hard work, but it was certainly no bed of roses too ... http://sciencenordic.com/polar-widows 6d779c3940176f06d42e07b15e6e426c Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:36:44 GMT History News Polar research: Reports and findings Amanda Graham ( Dechinta students and faculty via Northern Clipper, 15 July 2011) -- During their recent tour of Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited ... http://mediamentor-circumpolar.blogspot.com/2011/07/yzf-nwts-dechinta-bush-university.html 84fce35840b31d84f4bf3aa7c248733a Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:44:32 GMT Arctic Education and outreach History News NorthernU Amanda Graham (Mike Dunham/Anchorage Daily News, 27 April 2011) -- Alaska has lost one of its most influential teachers and thinkers. ... http://www.adn.com/2011/04/26/1829502/yupik-scholar-dies-at-76.html 3f323bbe1dda1df71a4caf014f3ce7c0 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:15:05 GMT Arctic History News Amanda Graham (Polar Conservation Organisation, 3 April 2011) -- From various articles: First South Pole Research Station blown op after 53 years. ... http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/piece-of-antarctic-history-blown-to-pieces 3db86cd614a37d05a44e0fd7365ffa99 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:22:43 GMT Antarctic History News Amanda Graham Although international scientific cooperation, particularly in meteorology, was established previous to the first International Polar Year, the IPY-1 ... http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/oceanography/book/978-3-642-12401-3 d4949f67aed6f32fbc431df8dd58bfa5 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:06:42 GMT History IPYLegacy News Publication Amanda Graham (Guy Guthridge/The Antarctic Sun via Space Ref, 2 January 2011) -- [SpaceRef editor's Note: To quote a former Antarctic Sun editor ... ... http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=35680 3c09999b893284db59bbffefcf2cc18b Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:13:52 GMT Antarctic History News Amanda Graham (Roger Launius's Blog, 24 November 2010) -- I am pleased to announce that the edited collection, Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the ... http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/globalizing-polar-science/ 5bb357f8848e6c7202561c454e5b36b5 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 20:39:29 GMT History IPY project News Publication Amanda Graham (AP via Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 29 November 2010) -- JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska historian Bob DeArmond has died at age 99. ... http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/10472997/article-Alaska-historian-dies-at-99 1f56327ac09b1614a7f2ba931a42a0fe Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:44:56 GMT History News Amanda Graham (PhysOrg and BBC via Archeo News, 17 November 2010) -- A team of international researchers has resolved the longstanding issue of the origins of the ... http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/004107.html e4d0dc43682d1e7b0d75eeb795d52342 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:57:31 GMT History News Research Amanda Graham (Fiona Govan/The Telegraph, 16 November 2010) -- Scientists tracing the genetic origins of an Icelandic family believe the first American arrived in ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8138884/First-Americans-reached-Europe-five-centuries-before-Columbus-voyages.html 69f89d3f36a246f5635d0607fedf971a Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:21:55 GMT History News Amanda Graham (CBC News, 12 November 2010) -- Yukon archaeologists are hopeful they can identify the three bodies found at a Dawson City excavation last week. ... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/11/12/dawson-remains-identification.html 532838386c7b6719b27d273101e396d5 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:21:34 GMT Arctic History News Amanda Graham (Randy Boswell/Postmedia News via Montreal Gazette, 12 November 2010) -- Nearly 40 years after researchers captured the memories of aging Inuit ... http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Trove+Inuit+hunters+wisdom+retrieved+amid+Lancaster+Sound+debate/3821125/story.html c264093adf6b9d8227aa2b1285da8395 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:52:44 GMT Arctic History Research Amanda Graham (ExpressNews, 5 October 2010) -- Edmonton - The University of Alberta is celebrating fifty years of polar research with a museum exhibition that ... http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/en/NewsArticles/2010/10/CircumpolarInstitutemarks50yearsofresearchingthepoles.aspx 980e210690bd9d3fc56385e0bde35b38 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:41:04 GMT Education and outreach History News Public events and conferences Amanda Graham (Alaska-Siberia Connection, 5 October 2010) -- YAKUTSK - Ivan Negenblya gave a press conference in regards to his upcoming Alaska-Siberia WWII Air ... http://alaskasiberia.com/2010/10/ivan-negenblyas-press-conference-in-yakutsk-oct-5-2010/ 94b36c2a788778fff605636bbd120c68 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:38:50 GMT Arctic History News Amanda Graham All the articles about a northern university note that this is not a new idea, that it's been around since the 1960s. ... http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/papers/ucnmain.htm c8e0240a2e67ae09cad1810e26159621 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:48:31 GMT History News Amanda Graham Aron L. Crowell, via AnthroAlaska mailing list 20 September 2010) Ernest S. “Tiger” Burch, 72, of Camp Hill, PA, passed away at home Thursday, ... http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/discuss/msgReader$1383 3b062cbe54dc249ef0146deb1eead40e Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:54:29 GMT History News Amanda Graham (Don Martin/Calgary Herald, 28 July 2010) -- MERCY BAY, N.W.T. - The historic ship whose crew discovered Canada’s Northwest Passage has been found ... http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Exclusive+Historic+Northwest+Passage+wreck+discovered+beneath+Beaufort/3330222/story.html 3a63b28c528cf42698edb64f56ac5b95 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:11:18 GMT History News Polar research: Reports and findings Research Amanda Graham (CBC News, 14 July 2010) -- A Parks Canada team is at the top of Ellesmere Island this week to build a virtual re-creation of Fort Conger, a research ... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/07/13/fort-conger-parks-canada-virtual.html cffffe8b7639d6a22acdefb4e2b09682 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:36:52 GMT Education and outreach History News Amanda Graham (Uppsala University press release, 1 April 2010) -- The hunter-gatherers who inhabited the southern coast of Scandinavia 4,000 years ago were lactose ... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uu-sas040110.php 6b4585f04f883eb6a859409c21c81d56 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:49:05 GMT History News Polar research: Reports and findings Amanda Graham (University of Manitoba press release, 1 April 2010) -- A team of researchers have found evidence that climate change on a global scale took place ... http://umanitoba.ca/news/blogs/blog/2010/04/01/news-release-lake-agassiz-drained-into-arctic-ocean/ fe61b82d7985fea17497b28e9acc6d63 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:15:15 GMT History News Polar research: Reports and findings Amanda Graham (John K. Hall/Insider's View, Hydro International, Vol. 13, No. 09 (November 2009), 4 December 2009) -- Just as the 1957–1958 International Polar ... http://www.hydro-international.com/issues/articles/id1139-PostIPY_Arctic_Mapping_Continues.html bb1ea41ffbccd79838aa6b2bcfb54392 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:24:50 GMT Arctic History IPYLegacy News Amanda Graham (BBC Radio 4, 30 November 2009) -- The Royal Society celebrates its 350th anniversary next year, launching a new website featuring some of the most ... http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/discuss/msgReader$1176 fc0471524241b7f27620a9844acf748d Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:59:01 GMT Education and outreach History News Amanda Graham (The Local, 29 November 2009) -- People lived in the Torne River Valley on the border with Sweden and Finland some 11,000 years ago, an important new ... http://www.thelocal.se/23546/20091129/ e16775905162de4038a2ff700ae68dd4 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:07:13 GMT Arctic History News Polar research: Reports and findings Amanda Graham (Ian Sample/Guardian, 19 November 2009) -- Woolly mammoths and other large, lumbering beasts faced extinction long before early humans perfected ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/19/hunters-mammoths-extinction 9811964f89f347376097f0a284cea99b Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:21:54 GMT History News Polar research: Reports and findings Amanda Graham (Henry Fountain/New York Times, 9 November 2009) -- A geodesic dome that sheltered scientists and support workers at the South Pole for three decades ... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/10dome.html 1921afa6ed880630954077c04805ea01 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:33:50 GMT Antarctic History News Research infrastructure Amanda Graham A new public exhibition and accompanying website devoted to the role of indigenous peoples and intermediaries, including interpreters and guides, in ... http://hiddenhistories.rgs.org/ ec524eb15f765d7aaf339ba8bc9069b3 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:28:53 GMT Arctic Education and outreach History News Amanda Graham (Arctic Institute of North America, 2 November 2009) -- One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail ... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/aion-nte110209.php 78484631bfa0a2a0a81f18dde2719dda Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:04:00 GMT Arctic History News Polar research: Reports and findings Amanda Graham (Wiley-Blackwell press release via EurekAlert, 22 September 2009) -- After decades of debate and four years of investigation an international body of ... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/w-eoa092209.php 023cdbd1daece557a0f5ce7ee83b1d85 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:09:24 GMT History News Amanda Graham (Mindy/Antarctic Conservation Blog, 6 July 2009) -- July 1st is Canada Day. As a Canadian currently living in Antarctica reflecting on polar history, ... http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/earth/antarctica/blog/?p=320 d517bd14c00af9cb4e077f52a9c1403f Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:26:47 GMT Education and outreach History News Research Amanda Graham (BBC News, 2 March 2009) ** -- Scientists and policymakers marked the official end of the International Polar Year (IPY) on Wednesday at the World ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7906539.stm 395f23c424c8622b241eed288a5377d6 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:16:44 GMT Education and outreach History News Amanda Graham (Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun , 2 January 2009) -- Morton Beebe, a lieutenant junior grade officer with the U.S. ... http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1667 96b9ee6b0994bd89d9bb69d3163a5038 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:16:08 GMT History News Amanda Graham (Aftenposten, 31 October 2008) -- Preparations are underway for celebrating Nansen and Amundsen year in 2011. ... http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2745521.ece 4c48134a0127e7e195c535cd229c5fe4 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:10:09 GMT History News Planning and Organization Public events and conferences Amanda Graham (Ned Rozell/Alaska Science via Anchorage Daily News, 4 October 2008) ** -- "Rectal Temperature of the Working Sled Dog. ... http://www.adn.com/life/story/546214.html fe7d16e06677e300b869fec3b7024570 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:28:11 GMT History News Amanda Graham (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 20 June 2008) -- SAN FRANCISCO — June 22, 1884, brought good news to San Francisco that a rescue ship had finally reached ... http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=23&id=21350 537ad34694317f55d485e68cada1a086 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:04:55 GMT History News Amanda Graham (The Times via Kennington News, 15 March 2008) -- The industrial riches of the 19th century and Victorian philan- thropy ensured that many peerless ... http://journals.aol.co.uk/kenningtonnews/KenningtonNews/entries/2008/03/16/revealed-the-museum-oddities-the-public-rarely-gets-to-see/4074 e08590eeb328ebaa48f7fd8aa6e66ffe Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:14:59 GMT History News Amanda Graham (SitNews, 23 February 2008) -- In 1958, Paul Newman married Joanne Woodward, the U.S. launched its first satellite, Ted Williams signed with the Red ... http://www.sitnews.us/0208news/022308/022308_ak_science.html 40d4b383697916ebaabd963dad3ddfdb Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:23:31 GMT History News Amanda Graham (Ed Struzik/Edmonton Journal, 3 December 2007) ** --  KLUANE NATIONAL PARK, YUKON TERRITORY -- When American scientist Walter Wood and his ... http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=3bfaa689-df9f-4693-b989-97a4b73d2b1f&k=31821 f0a515c722abc20aebe07c6c7ee27db1 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:56:51 GMT History News Amanda Graham (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research press release, 23 November 2007) -- On December 9, 2007, the ice-breaking research vessel ... http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news237154 c800c1b87df93d2678475887cbbf936d Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:27:54 GMT History News Amanda Graham From the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/1957-05-30_Maryland 95639d6deabcaa993ee2b7eaa22e5288 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:01:38 GMT History News Amanda Graham Here's a small collection of Sputnik videos from YouTube. The world's first artificial satellite was an IGY accomplishment. ... /ipy/sputnikvideos cab4f711edc6c7fcbb68041aaa3d7644 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:07:32 GMT History Amanda Graham (Union Leader, 8 July 2007) ** -- PORTSMOUTH - They lived a century apart, but explorer Adolphus W. Greely and climate change expert Paul Mayewski ... http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Climate+changes%2C+mysteries+of+Arctic+studied&articleId=1c5586b4-65b6-47a5-b1aa-bd83c62ace30 43c3ecac43da27bcfe5368490c657b1f Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:01:09 GMT History News Public events and conferences Amanda Graham (Jeremy Pearce/New York Times, 11 June 2007) -- Homer J. Stewart, an aerospace engineer and rocket propulsion expert who in 1958 helped launch the ... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/science/space/11stewart.html a8616985e97ec6d86a28b872fc7ed59f Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:31:25 GMT History News Amanda Graham (Sarah Brady/Seacoast Online, 10 June 2007) ** -- Why do we remember some and simply forget others? That is the question Dr. ... http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070610/ENTERTAIN/706100313 89c3463a0f2ada2260060af8c058b90c Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:14:37 GMT History News Public events and conferences Amanda Graham ( John Whitfield/ Nature, 30 March 2007) -- After the initial flurry of interest, International Polar Year (IPY, launched this March) seems to have ... http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070326/full/070326-14.html ac927f9d8aad3c00513e11d6627d2a73 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:47:29 GMT History Amanda Graham (Alfaking/Alfa King Memories, 23 March 2007) -- The study of weather and its impact on human, animal and plant lives has always fascinated man. ... http://alfaking.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/studying-the-poles-to-unveil-global-impacts/ aa50a79e4c7faa2ad34e9f85b15b658a Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:05:08 GMT Blogs History Amanda Graham (Jet Propulsion Laboratory press release, 21 March 2007) ** -- Vast, yet remote; frigid, yet teeming with life; stark and barren, yet serenely ... http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=22171 645fe67b32e38f6f0562de57db2fc941 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:49:10 GMT Education and outreach History Amanda Graham (Ted Rozell/Alaska Science in Anchrorage Daily News, 18 March 2007) ** -- During the first International Polar Year of 1882-1883, an American stole ... http://www.adn.com/life/story/8719210p-8621248c.html a232f818f8c44e9117ca40212ac98121 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:00:26 GMT History News Amanda Graham (Ned Rozell/SitNews, 17 March 2007) -- During the first International Polar Year of 1882-1883, an American stole food from his comrades, and it ... http://www.sitnews.us/0307news/031707/031707_ak_science.html 0bc6f43eb58299dfb447463e44dd2008 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:19:30 GMT History News Amanda Graham