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What does a ringed seal’s breathing hole look like and how do you find one on a vast sheet of sea ice? Dr. Brendan Kelly uses the canine skills of Cooper, a Black Labrador he trained to chase the scent of ringed seals and point to their holes. Passionate about wildlife and climate change, Melanie Duchin has loaned her dog to work with Brendan for the past 5 years.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 25, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology The Jakobshavn Isbræ is among the fastest-moving glaciers in the world. The Jakobshavn is an outlet glacier, one of the few places where the giant Greenland ice sheet can shed ice in the form of gigantic icebergs. This timelapse video (100x real speed) from glaciologist Mark Fahnestock shows one of these massive calving events. Notice the dark blue ice that surfaces when the iceberg flips over in the ice-choked Ilulissat icefjord. Time interval on this timelapse is 10 seconds per frame.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: May 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,
