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Doing the math on polar sea-ice melt

2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: Antarctica may be the last place one would expect to find a mathematician, but Ken Golden isn't your average mathematician. Golden, a mathematician at the University of Utah, is using math to model the melting of the polar ice caps. He has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic, where he studies how the microscopic structure of ice affects the large-scale melting of the ice caps. "We're using pretty sophisticated mathematics to better understand the role of sea ice in the...

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Ulstein Verft delivers Polar Onyx subsea vessel to GC Rieber Shipping

2014-03-06 01:00:00| Ship Technology

Norway-based Ulstein Verft has delivered the newly built advanced subsea vessel, Polar Onyx, to GC Rieber Shipping.

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FMC, Univar, PMPs help homeless during polar vortex

2014-03-05 23:24:58| Chemicals - Topix.net

Arnold Ramsey, Midwest market specialist with FMC Corp., left, and Brad Koehler, technical sales specialist with Univar, Inc., collect provisions and cash for homeless outreach in the Columbus area.

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Bear Witness: Street View Heads North for Polar Bears

2014-02-27 19:00:33| TechNewsWorld

Google's Street View team has captured images of polar bears in northern Canada, a successful end to its first-ever wildlife-specific quest. Google Street View has long been in the business of capturing things other than streets, including, for example, the world's tallest mountains and Antarctica. These photo-mapping quests aren't always without incident.

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