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...A skeleton crew (click here) will remain to properly maintain each of the three bases, as is normally the practice during the Antarctic off-season, from March to September. During a normal year, roughly 700 scientists head south each year to study Antarctica’s ice, ecosystems and atmosphere from October to February.
Scientists are frustrated that long-term studies will be interrupted. “If we lose a year of observations, they are gone forever,” says Hugh Ducklow, a biological oceanographer at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York....
The government shutdown may have hurt more than Congress can measure. The USA station in Antarctica was shuttered and flights cancelled to bring scientists and their grad students to the ice continent.
Antarctica isn't simply a rock where money is poured down the drain from the federal budget, it is a very sophisticated research station at the southern end of Earth. It is were physicists, among others, conduct research that take NASA to the moon and beyond. It is where the atmospheres of Earth have the least altitude and the void of space more easy to investigate without satellites, probes and other very expensive measures.
The Antarctica Research Station saves the USA money. It maintains the competition of this country in a global environment on sled rails to the future. Causing a government shutdown may have been a desired outcome for political extremists, but, it may have caused huge gaps to be realized in learning and achievement into the future.
The government shutdown accomplished nothing and was irresponsible and stupid.
Lauren Morello
The government shutdown may have hurt more than Congress can measure. The USA station in Antarctica was shuttered and flights cancelled to bring scientists and their grad students to the ice continent.
Antarctica isn't simply a rock where money is poured down the drain from the federal budget, it is a very sophisticated research station at the southern end of Earth. It is were physicists, among others, conduct research that take NASA to the moon and beyond. It is where the atmospheres of Earth have the least altitude and the void of space more easy to investigate without satellites, probes and other very expensive measures.
The Antarctica Research Station saves the USA money. It maintains the competition of this country in a global environment on sled rails to the future. Causing a government shutdown may have been a desired outcome for political extremists, but, it may have caused huge gaps to be realized in learning and achievement into the future.
The government shutdown accomplished nothing and was irresponsible and stupid.
Lauren Morello
The National Science Foundation (NSF) (click here) is likely to cancel the US
Antarctic programme’s upcoming field season if the US government
shutdown persists through mid-October — jeopardizing hundreds of
scientists’ work in glaciology, ecology and astrophysics.
The agency has kept its three Antarctic research stations open during the initial days of the shutdown, which began on 1 October, under rules designed to protect human lives and US government property. But Lockheed Martin, the contractor that runs the NSF’s Antarctic operations, has told researchers that it will run out of money by mid-October.
At that point, the company would be forced to evacuate all but a skeleton staff from McMurdo, Amundsen–Scott and Palmer stations. And that would spell the end to this year’s research season, which normally runs from October to February....
The agency has kept its three Antarctic research stations open during the initial days of the shutdown, which began on 1 October, under rules designed to protect human lives and US government property. But Lockheed Martin, the contractor that runs the NSF’s Antarctic operations, has told researchers that it will run out of money by mid-October.
At that point, the company would be forced to evacuate all but a skeleton staff from McMurdo, Amundsen–Scott and Palmer stations. And that would spell the end to this year’s research season, which normally runs from October to February....
