Polar Science

Polar regions are remote areas of profound significance for the Earth's climate, environments, ecosystems and human society. The relatively young science of polar research can pose unique challenges and yield unexpected results: 

• Distinguished Professor leads scientific discovery
  
  
• The unexpected can change everything: Kelly Falkner's wind-buffeted polar research
  
  
• Movement of Earth's North Magnetic Pole accelerating rapidly
  
  
• Arctic hydrothermal vents

• Witness the Arctic describes 14 Oregon State University projects, from ice coring to subsistence whaling (pdf)
  
  
• The International Polar Year is dedicated to intense interdisciplinary study of Earth's polar regions
  
  
• NASA animations of polar ice loss and other cyrosphere visualizations (QuikTime movies)

Joe Stoner leads a group in Svalbard, Arctic Norway, researching past movement of the North Magnetic Pole.