Antarctic

Hibernation-like behavior in Antarctic fish -- on ice for winter

Scientists have discovered an Antarctic fish species that adopts a winter survival strategy similar to hibernation. Reporting this week in the journal PLoS ONE, the online journal from the Public Library of Science, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of Birmingham r...

Rising Sea Levels Could Disintegrate Antarctic Ice Sheet

Rising sea-levels could cause the Antarctic ice sheet to break up, even though the air over it will remain chilly enough to prevent significant melting for at least a century, according to a new study by a researcher from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. As part of their stud...

Veteran Astronaut Joins Wyle Business Development Staff in Houston

...lso assume the role of medical director for Wyle's antarctic operations including support of the National Science Foundation's United States antarctic Program. Wyle is competing for this program as a team member of antarctic Research Support (ARS), a joint venture between CS...

What if Oregonians decline to address climate change?

...s Program on Economics and professor of economics at Portland State University. "Given the evidence of earlier-than-expected melting in the Arctic and antarctic regions and other issues, the risks of larger costs are real. That's why the insurance industry and a number of financial institutions are so concerne...

Medical research on ice

... New medical equipment recently delivered to the antarctic station Concordia will help understand how our bod...d to support projects at the research base. The antarctic station Concordia is located in one of the most ho...mbers that can be hosted in the station during the antarctic winter, conditions are even more severe as the har...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 21, 2008

... Melting glaciers may release DDT and contaminate antarctic environment Environmental Science & Technology ...sed into coastal waters annually along the Western antarctic Ice Sheet from glacial meltwater. The researchers ... they say. As the annual winter temperature on the antarctic Peninsula has increased by about 10 degrees Fahren...

Element Six Signals Ambitions for Growth With Senior Appointment for New Ventures Unit

... of 70South and the Polar Conservation Organisation, a recognized leader in antarctic and Polar news and educational information, and is active in antarctic and polar conservation and education. Element Six is the world's leading ...

Climate change, gender differences, health among EurekAlert! 10 Most Popular Stories in 2007

...inked to advanced prostate cancer Journal of the National Cancer Institute http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/jotn-mu051007.php antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions Ohio State University http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/osu-atd021207.php ...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...rg, Shanghai, Hamburg, London's Wembley stadium, New York and finally, at 8pm, Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach. A special performance at the British antarctic Survey Station in Antarctica will ensure all seven continents are included. There will be saturation coverage from TV, radio, the internet and at more...

Penguins Altered Diet When Humans Began Hunting Whales and Seals

...t global warming and the rise in krill fisheries has reduced krill stocks and could be contributing to the decline in Adlie penguin populations on the antarctic Peninsula. Their study, which is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, further says that between 1793 and 1807, a...

Antarctic in Medical Dictionary

Feeding

...f other new and classic downloadable games. (Redirected from Filter feeding ) Jump to: navigation, search ... Kils, U.: Swimming and feeding of antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba - some ... Information and support to mothers who are experiencing low milk production and the healthcare ... two such ...

Antarctic in Biological News

Ancient ecosystem thrives millions of years below Antarctic glacier

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Scientists have found an ancient ecosystem below an Antarctic glacier and learned that it survived millions of years by transforming sulfur and iron compounds for growth. Described in the April 17 issue of Science , the ecosystem lives without light or oxygen in a pool of bri...

UK robot sub searches for signs of melting 60 km into an Antarctic ice shelf cavity

Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions travelling under an Antarctic glacier. Autosub has been exploring Pine Island Glacier, a floating extension of the West Antarctic...

Final frontier: Mission to explore buried ancient Antarctic lake given green light

An international team of scientists led by the UK has been given the go-ahead to explore one of the planet's last great frontiers - an ancient lake hidden deep beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. Buried under 3 km of ice, the lake the size of Lake Windermere (UK) may have been isolated for hundreds ...

CO2 drop and global cooling caused Antarctic glacier to form

New Haven, Conn. Global climate rapidly shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with massive ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago. What happened? What changed? A team of scientists led by Yale geologists offers a new perspective on the nature of changing climatic condition...

Global warming threatens Antarctic sea life

MELBOURNE, FLA.Climate change is about to cause a major upheaval in the shallow marine waters of Antarctica. Predatory crabs are poised to return to warming Antarctic waters and disrupt the primeval marine communities. "Nowhere else than in these ecosystems do giant sea spiders and marine pill...

Rare Antarctic fossils reveal extinction of tundra before full polar climate arrived

(Boston) An international research team in Antarctica led by David Marchant, an associate professor of earth sciences at Boston University, has reported the discovery of exceptionally well-preserved freshwater fossils including mosses, microscopic one-celled algae, known as diatoms, small fresh wa...

Even the Antarctic winter cannot protect Wilkins Ice Shelf

Wilkins Ice Shelf has experienced further break-up with an area of about 160 km breaking off from 30 May to 31 May 2008. ESA's Envisat satellite captured the event the first ever-documented episode to occur in winter. Wilkins Ice Shelf, a broad plate of floating ice south of South America on t...

Unmanned aerial vehicles mark robotic first for British Antarctic Survey

Scientists at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany have completed the first ever series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Antarctica. This is the first time that unpiloted UAVs have been used in the ...

Has the mystery of the Antarctic ice sheet been solved?

A team of scientists from Cardiff Universitys School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales travelled to Africa to find new evidence of climate change which helps explain some of the mystery surrounding the appearance of the Antarctic ice sheet. Ice sheet forma...

Krill discovered living in the Antarctic abyss

Scientists have discovered Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) living and feeding down to depths of 3000 metres in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula. Until now this shrimp-like crustacean was thought to live only in the upper ocean. The discovery completely changes scientists understandi...

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Antarctic in Biological Technology

First pieces of Antarctic deep-space particle detector are in place

4,200 digital optical modules, designed to sample high-energy neutrino particles from deep space, are being deployed in 70 deep holes in the Antarctic ice. Photo courtesy of Daan Hubert/UW-Madison. Madison, Wis. Working under harsh Antarctic conditions, an international team of scientists, en...

Acasti Pharma completes offer to exchange outstanding Neptune Technologies dividend notes

...Acasti Pharma's product portfolio of proprietary novel long-chain omega-3 phospholipids are sourced from sustainable abundant marine biomass including antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Phospholipids are the major component of cell membranes and are essential for all vital cell processes. They are one of the...

Neptune Technologies successfully completes $2.75 million private placement with 10% management participation

...asti Pharma's product portfolio includes proprietary novel long-chain omega-3 phospholipids sourced from sustainable abundant marine biomass including antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Phospholipids are the major component of cell membranes and are essential for all vital cell processes. They are one of the...

Neptune Technologies Reports Record Fiscal 2008 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results

...Acasti Pharma's product portfolio of proprietary novel long-chain omega-3 phospholipids are sourced from sustainable abundant marine biomass including antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Phospholipids are the major component of cell membranes and are essential for all vital cell processes. They are one of the...

Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. Secures Access to Nationwide Consumer Mass Market in the United States

...nitial product launch through Costco planned for January 2008. Schiff(R) MegaRed(TM) contains Neptune Krill Oil, NKO(R), a marine oil extracted from antarctic Krill, patented for its extraction process, natural and synthetic composition, and for its use as a medication or cosmeceutical. NKO(R) safety and hea...

UW-Madison Laser Device to Study Polar Ice Caps

...e with the ability to precisely measure height changes of polar ice sheets. It will allow scientists to get a precise look at the dynamics of the West antarctic Ice Sheet, one of the least understood and most critical variables in the global climate change equation. "ICESat is providing a new perspective on...

Polar neutrino observatory construction leaps ahead

...light-sensing modules frozen deep in crystal clear antarctic ice-has grown this austral summer by 480 basketbal..., prototype neutrino telescope known as AMANDA for antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array. IceCube construc... year to bore a total of eight deep holes into the antarctic ice and deploy eight 60-module strings of sensors ...

Antarctic in Biological Definition

Microorganism

...strates that certain microbes can thrive in the absence of sunlight by using hydrogen gas..." BBCNews: 17 January, 2002, Alien life could be like antarctic bugs ...

Antarctic in Biological Dictionary

Phosphatase

...atase From Streptococcus Mutans ... Since phosphatase -treated fragments lack the 5' phosphoryl termini required by ... Which phosphatase (CIP, antarctic or SAP) should I use? ... Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 3 (CDK2-associated dual specificity phosphatase ) ... domain, RNA polymerase II, ...

Oscillatoria

...en fixation by Oscillatoria thiebautii during in situ incubations. ... antarctic Cyanobacteria - taxa and samples from the Dry ... Oscillatoria koettlitzi...-9.5. Maybe. Yes. Maybe. Maybe. Trichomes between 7-9.5 µm in width. ... antarctic Cyanobacteria - taxa and samples from the Dry Valleys, supported by McMurdo...

Compound eye

... (Redirected from Compound eye ) Jump to: navigation, search ... Compound eye of antarctic krill ... A compound eye may consist of thousands of individual ... The arthropods ancestrally possessed compound eyes, but the type and ...