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July 17, 2008 -- A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North America hundreds of millions of years ago.

Writing in the July 11 edition of the journal Science, an international team of U.S. and Australian investigators describe their findings, which were made in the Transantarctic Mountains, and their significance to the problem of piecing together what an ancient supercontinent, called Rodinia, looked like. The U.S. investigators were funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).    » read more »

Washington, Feb. 21, 2008 — Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is co-sponsoring a six-week Southern Ocean gas exchange experiment cruise with scientists from NASA and the National Science Foundation (NFS) to study the movements of gases in order to improve the accuracy of climate models and predictions. Scientists will conduct the experiments aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown, named for the late Secretary of Commerce killed in a plane crash in 1996.    » read more »

08/23/2007 -- BOSTON - Senator John Kerry today congratulated the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) on its receipt of a $97.7 million federal research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).    » read more »

Novel bacterium lives in colorful microbial mats within hot springs

July 26, 2007 -- In the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, a team of researchers partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) discovered a new bacterium that transforms light into chemical energy. The discovery of the chlorophyll-producing bacterium, Candidatus chloracidobacterium (Cab.) thermophilum, is described in the July 27, 2007, issue of Science in a paper led by Don Bryant of Penn State University and David M. Ward of Montana State University.    » read more »

Scientists will measure air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide, oxygen and nitrogen gas in Gulf of Alaska

June 12, 2007 - The first buoy to monitor ocean acidification has been launched in the Gulf of Alaska. Attached to the 10-foot-diameter buoy are sensors to measure climate indicators.

Acidification is a result of carbon dioxide absorbed by the seas.    » read more »