Alpine Tundra Yielding to Shrubs- August 29, 2008 COLVILLE RIVER, ALASKA-- Another day of fieldwork and floating later, we are camped on a big bend in the Colville, across from cliffs and peregrine falcons. Yesterday saw more science, including clear evidence of shrubs colonizing alpine tundra...http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=673 Minding the Data for Ice Sheets- August 28, 2008 ILULISSAT, GREENLAND-- In this video, we talk with Jeaime Powell, a graduate student from Elizabeth City Statue University working on the Polar Grid project. After every twin-otter airplane flight made from Ilulissat to map the Greenland Ice Sheet, Jeaime and his colleagues check over the data...http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=669 Ears of the Deep: Hydrophone Arrays- August 27, 2008 ABOARD THE USCGC HEALY, ON THE BEAUFORT SEA-- While much of the Coast Guard personnel continued to host the distinguished visitors, the science work increased in tempo. The primary science activity to be accomplished on the cruise is to recover and deploy moorings...http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=664 Science Underway in the Tundra- August 26, 2008 COLVILLE RIVER, ALASKA-- The four-person crew for this second float of the summer is led by Greta Myerchin and myself, both veterans of the first trip (NimiuktukNoatak) and familiar with the science and wilderness protocols...http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=660 Ice Sheets & Climate Change- August 25, 2008 ILULISSAT, GREENLAND-- We spent a lot of time at the Ilulissat airport, hopping on helicopters at every opportunity but also hanging out with the crew on an ice-mapping project out of the University of Kansas and NASA. In this video, we talk with Earl Frederick of NASA about the ice-mapping flights over the Greenland Ice Sheet...http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=659 |