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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/02/02/83515/antarctica-frozen-hotbed-of-climate.html
ANVERS ISLAND, Antarctica — Roald Amundsen attacked this frozen nowhere-land as a racing explorer, determined to be fastest, to be first, to be remembered. His determination and savvy got him to the South Pole before any other, and made him a hero in an age when Antarctica existed in the human imagination as a final conquest. Mostly for show, he brought along a scientist.
Just shy of a century later, the conquerors have given way to the curious.Now scientists such as geologist David Barbeau and ornithologist Kristen Gorman, rugged individuals of another age, shuttle in rubber Zodiac boats from remote research stations and ice-breaking research ships. They bump aside small floes, bend against brutal polar winds and scramble up cliffs in search of their own discoveries.
They search not for fame, but for answers about the same climate that once tortured and killed their polar adventuring forebears. Around this continent, the weather has mellowed alarmingly. Giant glaciers and tiny creatures are threatened as this tip of our global iceberg warms faster than anywhere else on earth.後接
http://penguinology.blogspot.com/2010/02/antarctica-frozen-hotbed-of-climate.html
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……**…These modern-day researchers come not to conquer, but to understand. [*少1句]
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Gorman, meanwhile, tracks how dwindling Adelie penguin colonies connect to the retreat of sea ice. She navigates guano-slick boulders.She teams with researchers steering remote-control submersibles into undersea canyon feeding grounds to measure how the birds fare as Antarctica’s glacial edges crumble into the sea.

“We’re asking simple questions about food ecology in this larger framework,” she said of fish and shrimplike krill and their feathered hunters. “How do you better predict how climate will affect predators?”
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Barbeau and Gorman are just two among scores building careers in modern-day Antarctica, where climate studies promise academic status and grant money.