Looking For Amelia of the Day

The search for Amelia Earhart is back on thanks to the State Department and $500k in private funds.

Kicked off at a State Department event celebrating "Amelia Earhart and the United States’ ties to our Pacific neighbors," the search for the aviation pioneer, who disappeared 75 years ago over the South Pacific, will focus on the theory that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, landed in the vicinity of the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro, formerly known as Gardner Island.

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is scheduled to meet today with members of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery -- the group leading the new search, which will begin in earnest this July to coincide with the anniversary of Earhart and Noonan's fateful flight.

[msnbc / cbsnews.]