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Sun, 04/25/2021 - 9:45am Joee Patterson. (Photo courtesy Stewardship Education Alliance) Jay Burnett. (Photo courtesy Stewardship Education Alliance) Sarah Doudera. (Photo courtesy Stewardship Education Alliance) CAMDEN — The Stewardship Education Alliance (S.E.A.) has tapped three new members to the local nonprofit’s Board of Directors. The announcement comes from S.E.A. president and Board chairman, Barbara Lawrence. The year-old nonprofit works to increase community awareness of the importance of stewardship in protecting the Midcoast’s water resources and fragile watershed...

By Mike Lucibella April 21, 2021 Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier is melting because of climate change, and a collapse of the glacier could raise sea levels significantly around the world. To glaciologists, it’s “the glacier of greatest concern” and the focus of the largest-ever joint U.S.-U.K. Antarctic field research program - the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. The U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.K. Natural Environment Research Council have teamed up to send scientists to the remote region by land, sea and air to study every aspect of the glacier ...

USNI News Search for: Home » Budget Industry » Schultz: Coast Guard Units Remain in High Demand as Forces Stretches to Meet Needs Schultz: Coast Guard Units Remain in High Demand as Forces Stretches to Meet Needs March 15, 2021 2:40 PM Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard, speaks during the 2021 State of the Coast Guard Address in San Diego March 11, 2021. US Coast Guard Photo SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Coast Guard remains in big demand at home and overseas as it continues to modernize the service and develop its force, the service’s top officer said in an annual address ...

  Photo Credit: Ken Halanych Researchers Candace Grimes (left) and Damien Waits process recently collected annelid worms in the lab on board the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer. Charting a Genetic Sea Change How the DNA of Sea Creatures Contain a Coded Map of Ancient Antarctica By Michael Lucibella, Photo Credit: Ken Halanych (Left to right) Rich Thompson, Colin Brayton and Alex Brett work to set up the Megacore sampler before it's dropped over the side of the ship to collect samples from the seafloor. In October, despite the ongoing COVID pandemic, a team of researchers sailed fr...

From November through February, the 73 Airmen and three LC-130 Hercules supported the United States Antarctic research efforts as part of Operation Deep Freeze, the Department of Defense’s annual support to the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic, News stories from the United States Air Force Academy.