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For polar scientists, these principles define the important concepts to convey when communicating the broader impacts of their research. For educators, these principles provide guidance on significant concepts to teach about the Polar Regions.
For more, check out this interview by Ari Daniel (Senior Digital Media Producer at NOVA) with Dr. Joel Barker at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University. -ice.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/polarPRINCEv3mix.mp3
I just got a new phone, not sure if this is the cause, but suddenly Strava and polar are not syncing anymore. I've uninstalled Strava, installed it again, restarted my phone and refreshed Strava. Still not syncing. What do I need to do?
As of 6-20-24, Strava seems to not be uploading polar calorie estimates. I've checked to make sure my weight was entered on both platforms. Reconnected the data sharing agreements on both apps, but when I upload to strava now, it won't carry over the calorie burn. Not a huge deal, but I just don't want to do it myself manually for every workout I save. Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks for posting about this and sorry to hear of the issue. The first thing I recommend is check to ensure you're signed into your original Strava account on your new phone. If you accidentally created a new Strava account on your new phone, you won't see your activities syncing into it.
To do this, sign out of Strava on the phone and sign back in, being sure to use the original email address and password you used when you set up your account. If you know the email address but not the password, you can reset it.
The operational polar fleet currently includes one 399-foot heavy icebreaker (Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, commissioned in 1976) and one 420-foot medium icebreaker (Coast Guard Cutter Healy, commissioned in 2000). These cutters are designed for open-water icebreaking and feature reinforced hulls and specially angled bows.
The Coast Guard and U.S. Navy, through an integrated program office, on April 23, 2019, awarded VT Halter Marine Inc., of Pascagoula, Mississippi, a fixed price incentive (firm) contract for the detail, design and construction of the lead PSC. Construction on the first PSC is planned to begin in 2022 with contract delivery planned for 2025. The contract includes financial incentives for earlier delivery.
A portion of all proceeds are donated to Polar Bears International, who specializes in polar bear research and works to protect wild polar bears. Your purchase will help their conservation, and secure a future for polar bears in a rapidly changing world.
The collars have a release mechanism with an internal clock that researchers can program. Researchers usually set the timer so that the collar will fall off shortly before the batteries are drained and the collar is no longer transmitting. Also, the collars are attached with steel nuts and brass bolts that eventually corrode in a saltwater environment, causing the collar to fall off even if the release mechanism fails. Once they fall off, a GPS location allows researchers to find the collar (if in a retrievable spot), download any stored data, refurbish, and send it out again.
Understandably, there are concerns about the impacts of collaring and human interference on wildlife. Polar bear researchers care deeply about the health of their study animals and regularly assess the impacts of different types of research and adjust as needed.
The most recent study on the long-term impacts of collars on polar bears evaluated the extent to which capture, collaring, and handling may influence polar bear activity, body mass, body condition, reproduction, and survival. Polar bears had a reduction in movements for several days after capture, but this was short-term. There were no long-term effects found on body condition, reproduction, or cub survival. This study showed capture and collaring are not contributing to observed changes in body condition, reproduction or survival seen in the polar bear population.
While people tend to think that polar bears are violent or threatening to humans, they are generally solitary creatures, who only approach human settlements if hungry or curious and usually only lash out if they feel threatened or afraid.
Though they are generally considered to be fairly calm, it is important to remember that polar bears are a large predator and can be unpredictable. When in polar bear country, practicing bear safety is critically important and one should never approach a polar bear for any reason.
Polar bears are not easily frightened. While they do not have any natural enemies or predators, most polar bears will choose to avoid large adult male polar bears as they can be unpredictable and dangerous depending on the time of year and conditions. Polar bears may also avoid humans who can serve as a threat in certain scenarios.
While polar bears appear white, their skin and the surface of their paws are actually black. The soles of their paws are special in the way that they are covered in papillae. These tiny bumps create friction to allow for stability and slip protection when polar bears walk on ice.
Polar bears' biggest extinction threats stem from climate change, as these animals live on sea ice and thrive in cold temperatures. Sea ice is currently declining due to climate warming, caused by a buildup of too many fossil fuel emissions trapped in the atmosphere, acting like a heat-trapping blanket.
By practicing environmental sustainability through activities like reducing CO2 emissions, switching to renewable energies like solar and wind power, and talking to friends and family about the importance of protecting our resources for the future, we can all play a part in stopping polar bears from becoming extinct.
The European Polar Board (EPB) is an independent organisation focused on major strategic priorities in the Arctic and Antarctic. EPB Members include research institutes, logistics operators, funding agencies, scientific academies and government ministries from across Europe.
The EPB has a mission to improve European coordination in Arctic and Antarctic research through improved information sharing, optimised infrastructure use and joint initiatives between Members.
We promote multilateral collaborative activities between our Members and provide a single contact point for to the European Polar research community as a whole for international partners.
The EPB also participates in large-scale projects with European and international partners, with tasks focusing on coordination of polar research and communication with policymakers or other stakeholders.
11th SCAR Open Science Conference will take place on 19-23 August 2024 in Pucn, Chile. The SCAR Open Science Conferences are the world's only ongoing global Antarctic science meetings and are held every two years to draw attention to Antarctic issues. They offer scientists from various disciplines...
I am new to AutoCAD 2015 and have previously used 2013. I use Polar tracking to draw and I used to be able to turn off Dynamic Input and still see a display of the approximate distance by the crosshair as I moved the mouse along the set up polar angles (45 degrees for example). I now can only see the approximate distance when I turn on Dynamic Input and I HATE Dynamic Input because it locks the crosshair in place as soon as I type and if I bump the mouse I have to escape out of the command to fix it. IT IS ANNOYING!
Is there anyway to turn on the approximate distance display without turning on Dynamic Input as 2013 did?
As a test, run the command to reset AutoCAD to its defaults. That process includes the creation of a backup for your current settings. You'll find the command in the AutoCAD folder on the Windows Start menu. Agree to create the backup and specify a location, it will then reset, and launch the program into its default state. Any system variables would be back to their out-of-the-box values. Start out testing in a brand new drawing, created from the most basic template included with AutoCAD (acad.dwt), and see if the polar tracking display works for you as shown in the screen capture from my previous post.
Using the reset autocad function does return the distance function. However I use Autcad with Cadworx. When I start my Cadworx profile it changes back again, so I still need to find the setting that controls this behaviour. At the moment the only way I can get it to work is to turn on dynamic input. In the past this wasn't necessary.
F12 fixed it for me. None of the other settings did anything. Apparently, F12 "temporarily" turns it off...but unless you hit F12 again, it stays off. I think I hit F12 accidentally when typing a command.
The APL-UW SEED (Science & Engineering Enrichment and Development) Postdoctoral Scholar Program welcomes proposals for independently designed and led novel research projects. SEED scholars will be mentored by and collaborate with APL-UW researchers and Polar Science is one of the possible research areas included. Follow the link for more information!
In July 2023, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) partnered with the 144th Airlift Squadron of the Alaska Air National Guard to deploy five different types of weather buoys across more than 1,000 nautical miles of the Arctic Ocean. Such deployments are critical for maintaining the Arctic Observing Network (AON), which provides observations for weather and ice forecasting and related research.
Polar Science Center Chair Dr. Bonnie Light joined a group of international scientists in Bremerhaven, Germany in January 2023 to process and analyze sea ice core samples brought back from the 2019-2020 MOSAiC expedition. Photo Credit: Amy Lauren
A new population of polar bears documented on the southeast coast of Greenland use glacier ice to survive despite limited access to sea ice. This small, genetically distinct group of polar bears could be important to the future of the species in a warming world.