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Popular Mechanics December 7, 2007 Logan Ward	Climate Engineers Build UAV, Radar to Process Subzero Mystery Combining digital radar equipment with unmanned aircraft gives scientists a much-needed edge in understanding why the polar ice sheets are undergoing rapid changes.
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National Defense August 2009 Stew Magnuson	Unmanned Aircraft Could Monitor Polar Ice Caps Advances in unmanned surveillance aircraft would make it possible for the Navy to keep watch over the polar ice caps 24/7.
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Dave Levitan	Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Trevor Williams	Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up.
National Defense June 2010 Austin Wright	Lightweight Radars to Monitor Ice from Above NASA plans to replace ground-based ice-sensing radars with lightweight devices that could monitor glaciers from above.
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip This trip is meant to be a dry run for an even more extreme environment -- the surface of Mars.
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Martian Pole Boasts Icy Detail A new map of Mars' south pole revealed that the ice cap is composed almost entirely of water ice and measures up to 3.7 kilometers thick.
Geotimes June 2007 Megan Sever	Antarctic Ice May be Grinding to a Halt Some of Antarctica's ice sheets may not be in as much danger as once thought.
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown	NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt	Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas.
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2008 Andrew Moseman	The Navy's Fighter-Plane-Size UAV, the X-47B, Is Unveiled in California Yesterday, Northrop Grumman unveiled its first completed X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System. This giant UAV could soon be one of the most lethal unmanned aircraft in the U.S. military.
InternetNews August 21, 2007 Paul Shread	Grid Spans the Globe A new 'Polar Grid' will help scientists measure the effects of global warming in real time.
Geotimes April 2007 Sally Adee	Massive Antarctic Lakes Discovered The recent discovery of a massive "plumbing" system of linked reservoirs 1,000 meters beneath two major ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may help fill out climate change models.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller	A Detailed Look at the Pentagon's $5.4 Billion Plan in 2010 to Develop and Deploy U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications.
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever	A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater.
Scientific American September 2008 Krista West	Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al.	Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work.
PC Magazine August 3, 2005 David Murphy	Satellite Success Story QinetiQ is building affordable high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles that will allow developing countries to observe and predict natural disasters and to monitor agriculture.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John McHale	AUVSI show: AeroVironment test-flies liquid-hydrogen-powered UAV The Global Observer, a liquid-hydrogen-powered unmanned aerial vehicle, will be able to operate at altitudes to 65,000 feet for more than a week without refueling and with a flexible payload-carrying capacity of as much as 1,000 pounds.
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan	Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions.
National Defense May 2005 Robert H. Williams	Long-Endurance Aerial Killer Passes Test A 500-pound inert weapon has been dropped successfully from a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The test was conducted by Northrop Grumman Corporation, working in conjunction with Scaled Composites.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	Navy Researchers to Develop Collision-Avoidance for UAVs to Operate in Civil Airspace U.S. Navy researchers are asking industry to develop a collision avoidance system to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to operate in civil airspace without the risk of crashing into other aircraft.
Wired September 22, 2008 Damon Tabor	Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative.
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen	Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	Are Autonomous Naval Vessels the Next Big Wave? Just as drones have proliferated in the skies, Navy and industry officials say unmanned systems also will take to the world's waterways in greater numbers.
Outside October 2002 Ian Frazier	Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Erik Sofge	Robot Chopper: The Navy's Smartest UAV The Fire Scout is arguably the smartest unmanned aerial vehicle ever built.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2007 Rich Smith	AeroVironment Lifts Off The unmanned aerial vehicle maker's superb results revive this fallen IPO star. Investors, take note.
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Plans to Network Ground Robots and Unmanned Aircraft Army researchers are working on a program that would pair autonomous unmanned aircraft with ground robots.
Geotimes October 2003 Sara Pratt	New model for glacial erosion Understanding what controls glacial erosion may have important implications for understanding glaciated mountain belts and modeling both ancient and current ice sheets.
National Defense December 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Coast Guard, NOAA Testing Drones in Arctic The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and the Coast Guard are teaming up in the Arctic to test new unmanned aerial system applications.
Chemistry World December 15, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Fast skating forces ice to feel the heat A scientist in Germany has now calculated why sliding across ice is so unpredictable and that your speed determines how slippery the ice will be.
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	Glacial earthquakes Seismologists have fingered glaciers as one source of newly discovered "slow" earthquakes.
National Defense February 2015 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Tests Navy's Fire Scout Aboard National Security Cutter The Coast Guard's long quest to acquire a ship-based unmanned aerial vehicle is well into its second decade.
Popular Mechanics October 1, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	Boeing and SAIC Award Honeywell Contract to Develop FCS Class I UAVs Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corp., functioning as the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat System program, awarded a contract to Honeywell Defense & Space Electronic Systems to develop the Class I Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (UAVS).
Geotimes November 2003 Mahmood et al.	Snapshots from Space of the World's Continents Studying Earth as a system -- including the hydrological, biological, geochemical, cryospheric and solid earth components -- requires routine acquisition of high-resolution, synoptic-scale observations that can be composited into snapshots of Earth in a sequence of moments.
Popular Mechanics October 8, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Unmanned Helicopter Hunts Drug Smugglers MQ-8B became the first unmanned helicopter to conduct actual operations on a navy ship.
National Defense June 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Navy's Minesweeping Unmanned Vessel on Schedule Textron Systems won the $33.8 million contract in September and completed its preliminary design review this spring. No significant issues were discovered, according to Textron.
Popular Mechanics February 2007 Jeff Wise	Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather.
Chemistry World November 29, 2012 Jon Evans	Messenger spots Mercury performing organic chemistry Nasa's Messenger spacecraft has uncovered evidence that not only does water ice exist on the surface of the planet Mercury, but in many places this ice appears to be covered in a 10cm-thick layer of soot-like organic material.
Science News February 14, 2009 Lonnie Thompson	Receding Glaciers Erase Records Of Climate History Ice masses on the tops of mountains -- sticking out in the free atmosphere -- have been collecting climate data and storing them, in many cases for very long periods.
Popular Mechanics December 1, 2008 Andrew Moseman	4 Challenges for the Navy as More Unmanned Drones Go Underwater The Navy is getting up to speed with unmanned vehicles.
National Defense April 2014 David Antanitus	Sailor-Less Ships Soon Could Be a Reality in U.S. Navy Is the Navy ready to embrace an autonomous surface ship operating with the battle group? Probably not, at least not yet.
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron	Joint-Service Focus Shapes UAV Roadmap The Pentagon is working on a new roadmap for unmanned aerial vehicles to accommodate the rapid growth in UAV programs seen in the past several years.
Geotimes January 2005 Sara Pratt	Frozen Volcanism on Titan In late October, the synthetic aperture radar on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft penetrated Titan's atmosphere of organic smog and captured images of the surface, revealing features that resemble lava domes and lava flows.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Army Officials cut FCS Program from 18 Systems to 14 U.S. Army officials have restructured the Future Combat Systems program to modernize the current force, while also providing the future force with advanced technology.