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Antarctic and Information
Rogozov later reported on the surgery in the Information Bulletin of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

Antarctic and Program
Shortly thereafter, a presidential directive based on the treaty gives the NSF the responsibility for virtually all U. S. operations and research on the continent ; the U. S. Antarctic Program continues to this day.
A separate appropriation is established for the U. S. Antarctic Program.
The current Casey Station headquarters ( the " Red Shed ") was built in the late 1980s as part of the Australian Government's Antarctic Re-building Program.
It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National Science Foundation.
The Antarctic Treaty, now signed by over forty-five governments, regulates intergovernmental relations with respect to Antarctica and governs the conduct of daily life at McMurdo for United States Antarctic Program ( U. S. A. P.
* United States Antarctic Research Program Calendar 1983
*" Facts About the United States Antarctic Research Program ".
In 1991, the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), which manages the U. S. Antarctic Program ( USAP ), honoured his memory by dedicating a state-of-the-art laboratory complex in his name, the Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center ( CSEC ) located in McMurdo Station.
* Chief Scientist, United States Antarctic Research Program, 1960-1968
Category: United States Antarctic Program
The first research program, Japanese Research Program in the Antarctic ( JARPA ), began in 1987-88, when 273 Antarctic minkee were caught.
Thirteenth AF also commands the only Air Force-led standing joint task force, Joint Task Force Support Forces Antarctica, a collaborative Department of Defense and National Science Foundation effort supporting the U. S. Antarctic Program through Operation Deep Freeze.
The station, like the other U. S. Antarctic stations, is operated by the United States Antarctic Program ( USAP ).
Category: United States Antarctic Program
* Indian Antarctic Program
Category: Indian Antarctic Program
Category: United States Antarctic Program
He served during Operation Highjump, ( also known as the United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program 1946 – 1947 ), developed cold weather gear for the Korean War, and Operation Deep Freeze I in 1955-1956.
Category: United States Antarctic Program
Operation Highjump ( OpHjp ), officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-1947, was a United States Navy operation organized by RADM Richard E. Byrd Jr. USN, ( Ret ), Officer in Charge, Task Force 68, and led by RADM Richard H. Cruzen, USN, Commanding Officer, Task Force 68.
The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ( ANARE, ) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program ( AAp ) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division ( AAD ).

Antarctic and National
* Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs
The British National Antarctic Expedition, later known as the Discovery Expedition, was a joint enterprise of the RGS and the Royal Society.
Following the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, Shackleton transferred to the troopship Tintagel Castle where, in March 1900, he met an army lieutenant, Cedric Longstaff, whose father Llewellyn W. Longstaff was the main financial backer of the National Antarctic Expedition, then being organised in London.
The National Antarctic Expedition, known as the Discovery Expedition after the ship Discovery, was the brainchild of Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, and had been many years in preparation.
The first wind chill formulae and tables were developed by Paul Allman Siple and Charles Passel working in the Antarctic before the Second World War, and were made available by the National Weather Service by the 1970s.
In 1928, Admiral Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two ships, and three airplanes: Byrd's Flagship was The City of New York ( a Norwegian sealing ship previously named Samson that had come into fame as a ship in the vicinity of Titanic when the latter was sinking ); a Ford Trimotor called the Floyd Bennett ( named after the recently deceased pilot of Byrd's previous expeditions ); a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928, named " Stars And Stripes " ( now displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum ); and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia ( Byrd's birth state ).
Officially named the American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition 1966 / 67, the expedition was sponsored by the American Alpine Club and the National Geographic Society, and supported in the field by the U. S. Navy and the National Science Foundation Office of Antarctic Programs.
The unit operates six LC-130s between Christchurch, New Zealand, and a number of U. S. National Science Foundation stations located on the Antarctic ice pack, November 5, 2001.
In 2009-10, the National Postal Museum exhibited six Roosevelt sketches that were developed into stamp issues: the 6-cent eagle airmail stamp and five miscellaneous commemoratives, which honored the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, the Mothers of America, Susan B. Anthony, Virginia Dare and the Northwest Territories ' rise to statehood.
He then spent 15 months in Antarctica with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ( ANARE ), for the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) as an auroral / radio physicist.
Interbreeding with the Macaroni Penguin has been reported at Heard and Marion Islands, with three hybrids recorded there by a 1987-88 Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition.
The name was first used by members of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901 – 04, and was apparently applied in association with Mt.
During a narrowing window of opportunity for data archaeology, the National Snow and Ice Data Center ( NDISC ) and NASA were able to recover data that allowed the reconstruction of high-resolution Nimbus 2 images from 1966 showing the entire Arctic and Antarctic ice caps.
Stable isotope studies on Antarctic food webs by New Zealand scientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research ( NIWA ) indicate Antarctic toothfish appear to occupy a similar trophic level in the Antarctic food web as orca and Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound, bluefin tuna in the Atlantic, and sperm whales from the Gulf of Mexico.
Wilson took part in two British expeditions to Antarctica, the British National Antarctic Expedition ( Discovery Expedition ) and the Terra Nova Expedition, both under the leadership of Scott.
Interbreeding with the Indopacific subspecies of the Southern Rockhopper Penguin ( E. chrysocome filholi ) has been reported at Heard and Marion Islands, with three hybrids recorded there by a 1987 – 88 Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition.

Antarctic and Science
In Japan, The Antarctic exploration was planned in 1955 by Monbushō and Science and technology Agency.
In 1991, Jeff Ridley, a remote sensing specialist with the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London, directed the ERS-1 satellite to turn its high-frequency array toward the center of the Antarctic ice cap.
" Locating the Thing: The Antarctic as Space Alien in John W. Campbell's " Who goes There " Science Fiction Studies.
Postcard celebrating 30-year Annivesary of Soviet Antarctic Science Station Vostok, 1987
In 1991, Jeff Ridley, a remote-sensing specialist with the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London, directed a European satellite called ERS-1 to turn its high-frequency array toward the center of the Antarctic ice cap.
He served on the National Academy's Space Studies Board, and on several Federal Committees concerned with Antarctic policy, nuclear waste containment, and Federal Science and Technology.
The theme areas are: Antarctic and Marine Science ; Community, Place and Change ; Environment ; Frontier Technologies ; Population and Health ; and Sustainable Primary Production.
It was dismantled and removed from the Antarctic as part of the National Science Foundation's environmental cleanup efforts in the early 1990s.
NSIDC also supports the National Science Foundation through the Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center and the Antarctic Glaciological Data Center.
* Serious Science, an interview with NSIDC lead scientist Ted Scambos from The Antarctic Sun
Dr. Jerri Nielsen was the sole physician on duty at the U. S. National Science Foundation Amundsen – Scott Antarctic research station in 1999 when she found a lump on her breast.
According to an interview with a climatologist Gerd Wendler published in the National Science Foundation ’ s Antarctic Sun, one could dive to the ocean floor anywhere in the world and encounter water from the coast of Antarctica.
The peninsula ’ s wildlife, soaring mountains, and dramatic seascapes have drawn commercial visitors since the late 1950s, when Argentina and Chile operated cruises to the South Shetland Islands ( Science and Stewardship in the Antarctic: Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources.
* U. S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed.
Named by Crary for Alan Tower Waterman, Director of the National Science Foundation, which directly supported U. S. Antarctic programs during and after the IGY period, 1957-58.
The naming was proposed by Thiel and Craddock after Dr. Thomas O. Jones ( 1908-93 ), American chemist ; senior NSF official in charge of the U. S. Antarctic Research Program, 1958-78 ; Director, Division of Environmental Science, NSF, 1965-69 ; Deputy Assistant Director for National and International Programs, NSF, 1969-78.

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