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April 8, 2009
Running Time: 02:37:52
The National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation co-hosted a symposium that highlights the early accomplishments of International Polar Year -- the global research effort to better understand the polar regions. With more than 200 scientific expeditions and a thousand research projects to discuss, speakers focused their talks on climate change, polar ice sheet stability and sea level, polar ecosystems, and people in the changing Arctic.
Speakers:
Ralph Cicerone,
Arden L Bement, Jr.,
Hajo Eicken,
David Holland,
Tim Killen,
Stephanie Pfirman,
Diana Wall,
James White
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