 Welcome to Ice Stories:
Dispatches from Polar Scientists, where you'll meet penguin biologists, glaciologists, cosmologists,
geologists, and marine scientists working in Antarctica and
the Arctic. We've given them cameras and asked them to document
their adventures, in real time, so you can follow their research,
ask questions, and share in their discoveries as they occur.
This experiment, in celebration of the International Polar
Year (2007-08), gives you an up-close-and-personal look at
research in extreme environments through the thoughts and
experiences of the scientists working there. We'll post their
photos, videos, and blogs on this site.
The adventure begins in Antarctica in November 2007 with
a series of Webcasts from the South Pole and the McMurdo
and Palmer research stations. It continues for two years,
shifting polar locations to the Arctic in summer. In winter
2008-09, we'll return to Antarctica. Join us and see what
it's really like to be a research scientist at the top or
bottom of the world.
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Ice Stories: Penguins
1/24/2008 Running Time: 00:39:25 Join us for more conversations with David Ainley and the penguin researchers, who will be wrapping up their field season at Adelie breeding colonies in Antarctica. Ice Stories: South Pole Telescope
1/18/2008 Running Time: 00:29:24 In our final talk with the South Pole Telescope staff, we'll learn about data collection. We’ll focus on the receiver, a very precise instrument that is a sensitive, state-of-the-art data collector with a thousand "eyes" pointed to the distant universe. We'll also meet the scientists who will be wintering over at the South Pole for eight cold, dark months. Ice Stories: Glaciologists WAIS
1/12/2008 Running Time: 00:46:36 Meet glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk and his team, who work in the fast-emerging field of ice sheet dynamics. No longer thought of as giant slabs of slow-moving frozen water, ice sheets are energized by a complex system of subglacial lakes, floods, streams, and ice quakes. This group will have just returned from a month at a remote camp on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and will have lots to tell us about their icy adventures. Ice Stories: ICE CUBE
1/12/2008 Running Time: 00:31:33 Today, we’ll continue chatting with scientists on the Ice Cube telescope at the South Pole. This unique telescope is designed to capture the movement of neutrinos. Neutrinos are subatomic particles with infinitesimal mass that slip through the universe, earth, and even our bodies without leaving a trace. Scientists study these ghostly particles for clues about supernova explosions, black holes, and gamma ray bursts, which in turn will shed light on the mysterious nature of dark energy and dark matter. Ice Stories: Balloon Research
1/10/2008 Running Time: 00:23:54 Join us as we talk to NASA scientists about balloon research in the stratosphere over Antarctica. This season, three giant helium balloons will launch near McMurdo Station and circulate in circumpolar air currents above Antarctica, collecting data about cosmic rays, very high energy particles that zip through the galaxy at nearly the speed of light. If conditions permit, we’ll be talking with the balloon scientists from their ice facility at Williams Field, where the giant balloons are inflated and launched and their flights are tracked. Ice Stories: Palmer Research Station
1/4/2008 Running Time: 00:40:13 Today, we’ll hook up with scientists at Palmer Research Station in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. This is one of the most rapidly warming places on earth, and the site of a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project. The scientists are getting ready for a month-long research cruise off the shores of western Antarctica, to study how this rich marine ecosystem is responding to melting sea ice and global climate change. Ice Stories: ICE CUBE
12/28/2007 Running Time: 00:30:04 Meet scientists and engineers at the South Pole who are hard at work drilling holes in the ice for a unique telescope called Ice Cube. When completed, this telescope will take up a .6 miles (1 cubic kilometer) of the ice sheet and consist of dozens of strings, each containing 60 detectors suspended in crystal-clear ice more than 4,900 feet (1500 meters) below the surface. Ice Stories: South Pole Telescope
12/21/2007 Running Time: 00:31:32 Join us as we talk with scientists working on the South Pole Telescope. In today’s program, we’ll learn about the various projects and teams of people on the project, how they work together, and how they analyze the data they receive. Ice Stories: Paul Doherty and Hands-on Activities 3
12/20/2007 Running Time: 00:25:33 Join Exploratorium senior scientist Paul Doherty once more as he serves up hands-on activities related to Antarctic science. Ice Stories: Paul Doherty and Hands-on Activities 2
12/19/2007 Running Time: 00:18:47 Join Exploratorium senior scientist Paul Doherty as he serves up more hands-on activities related to science in Antarctica. Ice Stories: Penguins
12/16/2007 Running Time: 00:26:52 David Ainley has been studying four colonies of Adelie penguins in Antarctica’s Ross Sea for over 20 years. Join us for a conversation with David and find out all about the population dynamics of penguins and how they’ve responded to environmental and climate change over time. Ice Stories: ANDRILL
12/9/2007 Running Time: 00:26:09 Today we wrap up our conversations with the ANDRILL Project scientists. As a special treat, we’ll speak with project leader and geologist Dave Harwood, who will offer an overview of the project and what lies ahead for it. Ice Stories: Paul Doherty and Hands-on Activities
12/8/2007 Running Time: 00:23:05 Join Exploratorium senior scientist Paul Doherty as he serves up hands-on activities related to science in Antarctica. Ice Stories: South Pole Telescope
12/7/2007 Running Time: 00:26:39 Last winter, we covered the assembly of the South Pole Telescope. Today, we’ll revisit that process, discover what scientists have learned from the telescope so far, and find out, from project leader John Carlstrom, what work needs to be done this year as the scientists fine-tune this amazing new piece of technology. Ice Stories: ANDRILL
12/2/2007 Running Time: 00:29:33 Learn more about the ANDRILL scientists. Watch them examine a sediment core, find out about new developments, and discover ancient diatoms (single-celled marine organisms that leave behind beautiful skeletons) with geologist Christina Riesselman. Ice Stories: ANDRILL
11/30/2007 Running Time: 00:23:36 The ANDRILL Project is a feat of engineering. How do scientists drill and retrieve sediment cores from under the ice and sea, and why do they do it? We’ll talk with scientists and engineers at a sea-ice drill site and learn more about the ANDRILL Project. Ice Stories: ANDRILL
11/28/2007 Running Time: 00:31:34 Join us for an overview of the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) Project, a multinational collaboration among 200-plus scientists, students, and educators from five nations, to recover sediment cores (layered sections of earth) from under the Antarctic ice and seas. By drilling back through time, ANDRILL scientists hope to reconstruct the distant history of environmental changes. This will help them understand how fast, large, and frequent the glacial and interglacial changes were in the Antarctic region. Knowing this history may also help scientists predict the timing and location of possible global-warming scenarios. Christina Riesselman explains her work on ANDRILL
11/26/2007 Running Time: 00:02:51 Christina is a geologist from Stanford investigating past climate by scouring sediment samples for diatoms, microscopic marine creatures that lived long ago in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound. Nadine Krupinski describes her field research on Antarctica ice sheets
11/26/2007 Running Time: 00:02:16 Nadine is a glaciology graduate student from UC Santa Cruz spending four weeks on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to investigate ice sheets and global climate change. Slawek Tulaczyk explains why investigating ice sheet behavior is critical
11/26/2007 Running Time: 00:03:09 Dr. Tulaczyk is a glaciologist from UC Santa Cruz who studies the lakes, floods and ice quakes that occur under the giant glaciers of Antarctica. He is among only 200 scientists world-wide who study ice sheet dynamics and its role in climate change. Slawek Tulaczyk Pulling Food for WAIS Camp
11/15/2007 Running Time: 00:01:46 Pulling food to prepare for four weeks at a WAIS ice camp. The Impact of Climate Change on Community
4/22/2007 Join host Mary Miller and Dr. Mickey Glantz in a discussion on issues around climate change and how it may effect communities. Understanding The Gulf Stream, part 2
4/21/2007 Running Time: 00:29:34 Join Exploratorium staff scientist Charlie Carlson as he examines further issues around the Gulf Stream and climate change. First Light from the new South Pole Telescope!
3/30/2007 Running Time: 00:41:16 The South Pole Telescope captured its first light on Feb. 16, 2007! Join Exploratorium host Mary Miller as she talks with scientists at the South Pole and finds out more about life at the Pole. We will get updates on the new South Pole telescope, which is currently being calibrated to begin data collection, and the IceCube neutrino telescope. South Pole Telescope
1/13/2007 Running Time: 00:15:00 Mary Miller chats with scientists at the South Pole about the nearly-completed telescope. The satellite connection to the pole deteriorated quickly, and we hope to repeat this program in the near future. Stay tuned for updates! Climate Change with Dr. Stephen Schneider
1/13/2007 Running Time: 00:38:45 Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University,and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Institute for International Studies, joins us to discuss climate change. Dr. Schneider was honored in 1992 with a MacArthur Fellowship for his ability to integrate and interpret the results of global climate research through public lectures, seminars, classroom teaching, and research collaboration with colleagues. Ice Stories-Balloon research
1/11/2007 Join us as we talk to NASA scientists about balloon research in the stratosphere over Antarctica. This season, three giant helium balloons will launch near McMurdo Station and circulate in circumpolar air currents above Antarctica, collecting data about cosmic rays, very high energy particles that zip through the galaxy at nearly the speed of light. If conditions permit, we’ll be talking with the balloon scientists from their ice facility at Williams Field, where the giant balloons are inflated and launched and their flights are tracked. Live From the South Pole: Ice Cube
1/6/2007 Running Time: 00:35:47 Join us as we talk to South Pole scientists about Ice Cube: a major new telescope being built deep below the surface to detect ghostly neutrino particles. The neutrino telescope will use thousands of detectors spread over a square kilometer of ice below the South Pole to study cosmological mysteries such as black holes, gamma ray bursts, and the remnants of supernova explosions.
The Ice Cube Story
1/6/2007 Running Time: 00:04:34 Special Added Video!
Check out this amazing footage of how scientists drop detectors miles into the ice to search for elusive neutrinos. South Pole Telescope
12/29/2006 Running Time: 00:37:45 Find out what Christmas is like at the South Pole and learn about the Race Around the World. As the new telescope reaches completion, the scientists discuss the placing of the reflector and the installation of the new receiver (expected to arrive at the Pole in just a few days). Sea Ice Versus Land Ice
12/29/2006 Running Time: 00:10:32 Join Senior Scientist Paul Doherty as he explains the difference between floating ice and land ice, and why they effect sea levels differently. Save the World, One Lightbulb At A Time
12/29/2006 Running Time: 00:11:46 Join Senior Scientist Paul Doherty as he measures the power used by two lightbulbs; one incandescent and one fluorescent, that make the same amount of light. Watch Ice Melt!
12/29/2006 Running Time: 00:07:54 Join Senior Scientist Paul Doherty as shows how to melt ice unbelievably fast! Global Warming 101
12/20/2006 Running Time: 00:16:25 Five questions in ten minutes: Join Exploratorium staff as they give the quick answers to the most frequently asked questions: What is a "tipping point"? What are carbon credits? What is carbon neutral? What can I do? What can my kid do?
Write your Congressional Representative at http://www.house.gov/writerep/
To calculate your carbon emissions; copy and paste into your browser:
http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/ The ANDRILL Project
12/15/2006 Running Time: 00:38:53 Join us as we talk to scientists from the ANDRILL(ANtarctica DRILLing) project, who are currently on a geological drilling expedition in Antarctica. Climate Change with Robert Henson
12/15/2006 Running Time: 00:34:44 Join us as we talk with Robert Henson, author of The Rough Guide to Climate Change. Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming
12/13/2006 Running Time: 00:37:06 Join us as we chat with Chris Mooney, Washington correspondent for Seed Magazine and author of a forthcoming book about the politics and science of climate change. You can check out his blog at http://scienceblogs.com/intersection South Pole Telescope
12/9/2006 Running Time: 00:28:51 Tom Crawford and Jeff McMahon will show us a day in the life of a South Pole scientist. Then they’ll talk about what the new telescope will be searching for: dark matter, galaxy clusters, and evidence of the universe expanding. Once & Future Climate, Part 3: The Future
12/9/2006 Running Time: 00:27:15 Join Exploratorium physicists Paul Doherty and Stephanie Chasteen as they examine the past, present, and future of climate change. In this show, Paul and Stephanie will discuss the future of our climate. Learn more about the oceans, global warming, feedback effects, glacial ice and sea ice, and some things you can to do help. Life at the Poles, Part 3
12/8/2006 Running Time: 00:30:11 Exploratorium biologist Karen Kalumuck will examine how increasing temperatures affect specific organisms at the poles—from phytoplankton to polar bears! Life at the Poles, Part 2
12/7/2006 Running Time: 00:24:38 Join Exploratorium biologist Karen Kalumuck as she experiments with enzymes and proteins and shows at what temperatures they function best. Life at the Poles, Part 1
12/6/2006 Running Time: 00:29:33 Join Exploratorium biologist Karen Kalumuck as she investigates the characteristics of living organisms and ecosystems, and how climate change affects them. South Pole Telescope
12/2/2006 Running Time: 00:28:45 After one week at the South Pole, scientists Tom Crawford and Jeff McMahon will take us on a virtual tour of the South Pole Station. They will discuss working in the polar environment, what progress they have made, and their goals for the week. Once & Future Climate, Part 2: The Present
12/2/2006 Running Time: 00:25:43 Join Exploratorium physicists Paul Doherty and Stephanie Chasteen as they examine the past, present, and future of climate change. Watch as Paul and Stephanie demonstrate how you can look at a slice of climate from the past, what a sediment core might look like, and the secrets hidden in an ice balloon! Drilling Back to the Future: Live from McMurdo Station, Antarctica
12/2/2006 Running Time: 00:31:49 Exploratorium physicist Paul Doherty chats with Richard Levy, a geologist, and Ross Powell, who’s the co-director of the ANDRILL project. They are drilling beneath the Antarctic seafloor, and pulling up sediment cores. By looking at the layers of the past, they hope to help us predict our future. Understanding the Gulf Stream
12/1/2006 Running Time: 00:27:47 Exploratorium biologist Charles Carlson talks about why climate change is causing a crisis with the Gulf Stream. Global Warming 101
11/30/2006 Running Time: 00:09:55 Five questions in ten minutes: Join Exploratorium staff as they give the quick answers to the most frequently asked questions. Live Chat from McMurdo Station
11/30/2006 Running Time: 00:28:33 What do the kids want to know? Join Kirk Bell’s fifth grade class (from Children’s Day School in San Francisco)as they chat with Holly Troy in Antarctica. Mr. Troy has spent many seasons at McMurdo station working with scientists. How Climate Change Impacts Penguins
11/29/2006 Running Time: 00:33:33 Join Pamela Schaller from the California Academy of Sciences as she discuss penguins and how climate change impacts them. Penguins in Antarctica
11/29/2006 Running Time: 00:26:39 Penguin researcher David Ainley joins us via telephone from his tent at Cape Royds, Antarctica. Dr. Ainley has been studying Adelie penguins for many seasons from his remote encampment. South Pole Telescope
11/25/2006 Running Time: 00:34:45 After years of preparation, scientists from the University of Chicago are making the long journey to the South Pole to begin construction on the new 10-meter telescope. Join us as we talk to scientists at the pole about their long journey, learn about the pre-building of the telescope in Texas last summer; and find out what challenges they face in constructing a major scientific instrument in freezing conditions. Once & Future Climate, Part 1: The Past
11/25/2006 Running Time: 00:31:41 Watch as Exploratorium physicists Paul Doherty and Stephanie Chasteen play around with the leading greenhouse gas: carbon dioxide. What is it? How much is there in our atmosphere? What does it do that is so harmful to the environment?
Please check back in May 2008 for our next series of Webcasts from the Arctic.
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