Submarine

Image: USS Hawkbill, SCICEX project

Caption: On its final mission, the nuclear submarine USS Hawkbill journeyed underneath the polar ice cap. The mission, a joint expedition of the U.S. Navy and the National Science Foundation, navigated the treacherous waters and ice canals above the Arctic Circle.

The Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station is base camp for a research project called Arctic Ocean Science from Submarines -- SCICEX -- that is helping to answer critical questions about global warming. SCICEX is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Navy's Office of Naval Research.
SCICEX and other arctic research projects are hunting for explanations for a mysterious series of events that have unfolded at the top of the world.

Source: Dr. Margo Edwards
Hawaii Mapping Research Group at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Website: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/icerun/scientist/

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