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AGU 2011: New Map of Antarctica's Rock Bed Dec 09, 2011 04:19:01 PM | Maria-Jose Vinas
 
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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Listen to the Sound of a Ship's Hull Gouging Through First-Year Ice Jul 18, 2011 11:20:40 AM | Adam Voiland
 
The answer to last week's quiz
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Why Cutting Black Carbon Emissions May Save Arctic Sea Ice Dec 22, 2010 02:03:53 PM | Adam Voiland
 
Arctic sea ice is retreating at an unexpectedly rapid pace, but reducing black carbon may reverse the trend.
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Flying High with MABEL Dec 16, 2010 04:23:24 PM | Adam Voiland
 
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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What On Earth (Sound) Was That #4? Seismic Music From Earth, Of Course... Sep 24, 2010 12:19:02 PM | Kathryn Hansen
 
Last week in our "What on Earth is That" segment we posted our first mystery sound. The answer?
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Plankton on Parade Jul 27, 2010 12:26:55 PM | Adam Voiland
 
“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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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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The Mysteries of Muck (and the Collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet) Feb 26, 2010 08:50:23 AM | NASA Earth Science News Team
 
I spent big chunks of my childhood mucking through the lakes and bogs of New England with my brothers and looking for any number of critters hidden in the silt.
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Up Close with Ice Bridge Mar 06, 2010 08:43:26 PM | NASA Earth Science News Team
 
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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