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      Frontiers in Polar Biology in the Genomic Era

      National Research Council,Polar Research Board,Committee on Frontiers in Polar Biology,National Research Council

      Highlights research areas in polar biology that can benefit from genomic technologies and assesses the impediments to the conduct of polar genomic research. This work also emphasizes the importance of…

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      Frontiers in Understanding Climate Change and Polar Ecosystems: Summary of a Workshop

      Committee for the Workshop on Frontiers in Understanding Climate Change and Polar Ecosystems,National Research Council

      The polar regions are experiencing rapid changes in climate. These changes are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees of severity at all ecosystem levels, including society. Even…

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      The Arctic in the Anthropocene: Emerging Research Questions

      Committee on Emerging Research Questions in the Arctic,Polar Research Board,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

      Once ice-bound, difficult to access, and largely ignored by the rest of the world, the Arctic is now front and center in the midst of many important questions facing the…

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      Future Science Opportunities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

      Committee on Future Science Opportunities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean,National Research Council

      Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean remains one of the world’s last frontiers. Covering nearly 14 million km&sup2 (an area approximately 1.4 times the size of the United States), Antarctica…

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      Science and Stewardship in the Antarctic

      Committee on Antarctic Policy and Science,Polar Research Board,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      With the negotiation of the International Protocol on Environmental Protection in 1991, those nations conducting scientific research in Antarctica face various challenges. This book examines how the implementation of the…

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      Seasonal to Decadal Predictions of Arctic Sea Ice: Challenges and Strategies

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Polar Research Board,Committee on the Future of Arctic Sea Ice Research in Support of Seasonal to Decadal Prediction

      Recent well documented reductions in the thickness and extent of Arctic sea ice cover, which can be linked to the warming climate, are affecting the global climate system and are…

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      The Community Development Quota Program in Alaska

      Committee to Review the Community Development Quota Program,National Research Council

      Reviews the performance of the Community Development Quotas (CDQ) programs that were formed as a result of the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996. The CDQ program is a method of…

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      Opportunities to Use Remote Sensing in Understanding Permafrost and Related Ecological Characteristics: Report of a Workshop

      Committee on Opportunities to Use Remote Sensing in Understanding Permafrost and Ecosystems: A Workshop,Polar Research Board,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

      Permafrost is a thermal condition – its formation, persistence and disappearance are highly dependent on climate. General circulation models predict that, for a doubling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide…

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      The Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets

      Committee on the Alaska Groundfish Fishery and Steller Sea Lions,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Populations of Steller sea lions, especially in the western Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea, have been in decline since 1970. In November 2000, an Endangered Species Act consultation proposed…

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      The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory’s Thyroid Function Study: A Radiological Risk and Ethical Analysis

      Committee on the Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive Iodine-131,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Commission on Life Sciences,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      In 1956 and 1957, the US Air Force’s former Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory conducted a study of the role of the thyroid in human acclimatization to cold. This book evaluates the…

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