Scientists Ready Big Study of North and South Poles
February 25, 2007
Scientists from more than 60 countries are preparing to fan out to the North and South Poles in an ambitious two-year effort to understand the vital, shifting dynamics of ice, oceans and life at the ends of the earth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/science/26polarcnd.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin