Evelyn Stefansson Nef 1913-2009
Evelyn Stefansson Nef, 96, an author, lecturer, patron of the arts, polar expert, and philanthropist, died on Thursday, December 10, 2009, at her home in Washington, DC.
[more]Evelyn Stefansson Nef, 96, an author, lecturer, patron of the arts, polar expert, and philanthropist, died on Thursday, December 10, 2009, at her home in Washington, DC.
[more]IGERT Associate Describes Greenland Ice Cores for MSNBC Dartmouth engineering graduate student and IGERT Associate in the Polar Environmental Change Program, Kaitlin Keegan, is interviewed by MSNBC's Nightly News on studying the climate change by studying ice cores drilled in Greenland.
[more]Dickey Center Visiting Fellow and Vermont Law School professor Betsy Baker talks about the legal conventions governing the Arctic sea bed in an interview with Mitch Wertlieb on Vermont Public Radio. Baker is an expert on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. She is in residence at the Dickey Center this term.
[more]A reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years, researchers report this week in the journal Science.
[more]Program integrates science and policy in fight against climate change The Dickey Center for International Understanding, through its Institute of Arctic Studies ,has been awarded nearly $3 million by the National Science Foundation through its Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program.
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