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Peter Calamai has been the Star's full-time science reporter since 1998 and first visited the Arctic to write about scientific research in 1967. His 2006 Star stories about polar climate research were honoured this year with a distinguished reporting award from the American Meteorological Society.

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Research

March 12, 2008

Modern Arctic explorers

The Star's science reporter, Peter Calamai, joins the Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen (picutred below) in the Western Arctic Ocean to chronicle the adventures of Canadian scientists who are probing causes for the rapid disappearance of the polar ice cover. He follows the experts as they investigate huge gashes in the sea ice and also explains experiments carried out in the ship's specialized laboratories.