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In the Field: Scientists at Work

Remote Sensing Makes Sense in the Polar Regions

A Dinosaur Cast in Stone

Studying the Aurora Australis from Antarctica

Serendipitous Science: An Unexpected Discovery

Snow to Ice to Water: Melt Ponds, Moulins, and Surging Glaciers

Magnetism, Mountains, and Moving Plates: Tales of a Polar Geologist

Going With the Floe: A One-Time Drifter

Mt. Erebus, Then and Now

Nunavut, Canada: The Sounds and the Silence

Antarctica Geologists Find a Balmy Day on the Lake – 14 Million Years Ago

Counting Graylings on the Tundra

Uncharted Territory on the Arctic Seafloor

Taking a Glacier’s Pulse

Fruitful Collaboration: Western Science and Native Ways of Knowing

Researchers on Ice

The Boy Scout at the Bottom of the World

Investigating West Antarctica, Then and Now

Climate Science: What We Need to Know

What Killed the Mammoths? Ross MacPhee Looks for Answers

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