EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

Ice Stories: Adélie Penguins Tobogganning (clip)

Running Time:
00:00:45

Adélie penguins engaging in a behavior called tobogganning. Like sledding, penguins cruise along the slick ice on their bellies -- a faster way of traveling than by walking.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: December 2, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Ice Stories: Life on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (podcast)

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00:02:58

In this audio dispatch, correspondent Jack Walter describes his first week at the team's field camp on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Hear about their research on lakes under the glaciers and get a slice of life as a remote polar scientist.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: November 25, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Ice Stories: Escorting Dynamite Through Siple Dome: Part 1 (podcast)

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00:03:56

In this audio dispatch, correspondent Saffia Hossainzadeh describes her journey to her team's deep field site via a stop at Siple Dome station. In part one, hear about the difficulties involved in escorting 700 pounds of explosives through Antarctica.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: November 25, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Ice Stories: Escorting Dynamite Through Siple Dome: Part 2 (podcast)

Running Time:
00:02:27

In this audio dispatch, correspondent Saffia Hossainzadeh describes her journey to her team's deep field site via a stop at Siple Dome station. In part two, hear about our combat-style landing at Siple Dome’s remote air strip.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: November 25, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Ice Stories: Traverse across Frozen McMurdo Sound (clip)

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00:02:40

This video captures the energy and excitement of traversing across the sea ice to the Offshore New Harbor Field Camp.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: November 18, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Ice Stories: Interview with McMurdo Station's Waste Management Supervisor (clip)

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00:02:29

Ice Stories correspondent Howie Koss interviews James Van Matre, Waste Management Supervisor at McMurdo Station. We talk about Antarctica's waste management practices of the past and present, and why it's important to recycle.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: October 27, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):

Ice Stories: Interview with Glaciologist Mark Fahnestock, Part 2 (clip)

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00:02:02

In this interview from Greenland, glaciologist Mark Fahnestock describes the roar of a 1000-foot iceberg dropping off the Jakobshavn Isbræ into the Ilulissat Icefjord. Includes time-lapse photography of this massive calving event.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Ice Stories: Interview with Glaciologist Mark Fahnestock, Part 3 (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:55

What controls the speed of Greenland’s big outlet glaciers like the Jakobshavn? How do they interact with the climate system? And most importantly, what does the future hold for the glaciers of Greenland? In this video, glaciologist Mark Fahnestock discusses glacier dynamics and what he hopes to learn through his studies.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Ice Stories: Interview with Glaciologist Mark Fahnestock, Part 1 (clip)

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00:02:53

The Ice Stories crew caught up with glaciologist Mark Fahnestock on his way back home after a few weeks camping near Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbræ, the most productive and among the fastest-moving glaciers in the world. In this interview, Mark describes some of the physics of this speedy glacier and why so many scientists are interested in studying the dynamics of Jakobshavn.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: August 12, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Solar Eclipse: Live from China (webcast)

Running Time:
01:13:00

On August 1, 2008, a total solar eclipse occurred as the new moon moved directly between the sun and the earth. The moon's umbral shadow fell on parts of Canada, Greenland, the Arctic Ocean, Russia, Mongolia, and China. The Exploratorium's eclipse expedition team (our fifth!) Webcast the eclipse live from the remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China near the Mongolian border.

Project: Solar Eclipse: Stories from the Path of Totality | Browse All

Date: August 1, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science