What On Earth
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AGU 2011: New Map of Antarctica's Rock Bed
Dec 09, 2011 04:19:01 PM | Maria-Jose Vinas
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- An updated map of Antarctica's rock bed will help scientists model the response of ice sheets and glaciers to changes in the environment.
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Flying High with MABEL
Dec 16, 2010 04:23:24 PM | Adam Voiland
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- In a poster to be presented Thursday at the 2010 fall AGU meeting, NASA scientists describe a series of high-altitude flights that demonstrated the scientific feasibility of surface elevation measurements to be made by one of the agency's future Earth observing satellites.
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Plankton on Parade
Jul 27, 2010 12:26:55 PM | Adam Voiland
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- “We are seeing what’s in the water immediately, not after the fact in a lab, so it’s obvious when the water -- and what’s in it -- changes."
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Puzzling Over the Pieces
Jul 27, 2010 12:30:13 PM | Adam Voiland
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- NASA satellites, now working for more than ten years, are beginning to allow us to examine changes in the climate. One purpose of ICESCAPE is to look at the ocean with greater detail than the satellites offer, in order to improve and refine the interpretation of the satellite data.
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What to Expect from the Arctic
Jul 27, 2010 12:32:02 PM | Adam Voiland
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- Greg Mitchell reckons he has spent about four years of his life aboard ships. His most recent trip inside the Arctic Circle was 1989. He expects to see change now.
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Beautiful Radiance
Jul 09, 2010 01:32:21 PM | Adam Voiland
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- Here on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, heading north toward sampling stations in the Bering Strait, there’s plenty of light -- a beautiful radiance nearly around the clock.
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NASA Readies for Spring 2010 Ice Bridge Campaign
Mar 07, 2010 07:45:32 AM | Adam Voiland
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- Scientists are returning to the Arctic this spring as part of the six-year Operation Ice Bridge mission -- the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown.
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The Uphill Road to Measuring Snow
Mar 01, 2010 12:06:02 PM | Adam Voiland
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- One-sixth of the world’s population relies on melted snow for their freshwater, which means good estimates of snow are critical for making realistic predictions of a region’s water supply.
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An Award-Winning Scientist Who Came in from the Cold
Feb 18, 2010 12:41:53 PM | Adam Voiland
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- Researchers who study glaciers and polar dynamics often get into it for the love of the field work. Benjamin Smith, a researcher at the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory, was no exception.
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Up Close with Ice Bridge
Mar 06, 2010 08:43:26 PM | NASA Earth Science News Team
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- NASA and partners are nearing the end of the 2009 Antarctic campaign of Operation Ice Bridge. Here's how to follow the remainder of the mission.
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