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Pine Island Glacier: A Quest to Understand Antarctic Ice Loss Nov 11, 2011 09:44:03 AM | Adam Voiland
 
An international team of researchers led by a NASA glaciologist will helicopter to a remote glacier in Antarctica in mid-December.
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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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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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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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