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Ice Stories: Getting to the Back Lakes: Crossing LimnaeaSo (Clip)
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Climate researcher Billy D'Andrea and colleagues explore the remote "back lakes" of Greenland.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 8, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: greenland, expedition, exploration, lakes, climate change, remote, boat
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 8, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: greenland, expedition, exploration, lakes, climate change, remote, boat
| Links: | Dispatch: Getting to the Back Lakes: Crossing LimnaeaSo |
Ice Stories: Alkenones: Natural Thermometers (Clip)
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To understand how Earth’s climate system has changed over time, scientists need to find, develop and use natural recorders of temperature and precipitation. One natural thermometer comes in the form of alkenones: trans-fats produced by certain algae.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 7, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: climate change, climate history, paleoclimate, thermometer, trans-fats, algae, lakes, temperature, sediment cores, density, liquid, fats
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 7, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: climate change, climate history, paleoclimate, thermometer, trans-fats, algae, lakes, temperature, sediment cores, density, liquid, fats
| Links: | Dispatch: Alkenones: Natural Thermometers |
Ice Stories: Energy Dynamics within Alaska's thaw lakes (Webcast)
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Alaska's coastal range is covered in literally thousands of thaw lakes. Ken Hinkel, Yongwei Sheng and John Lenters are embarking on a project to reveal the subtle energy dynamics that take place within these lake systems.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
Ice Stories: Tracking Endangered Bird Populations (Webcast)
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Dr. Jewel Bennett, an endangered species biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Fairbanks field office, is in Barrow leading a survey team tracking the endangered Steller's and Spectacled Eiders' populations.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 19, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 19, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
Ice Stories: Inupiaq knowledge meets science on Alaska's North Slope (Webcast)
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00:26:49
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Inupiaq elders, local experts and scientific researchers partner on the North Slope to study and understand the changing environment. Wendy Eisner and Chris Cuomo join us to talk about their project: Indigenous Knowledge and Landscape in Northern Alaska.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 17, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice, inupiaq, elders, local knowledge
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 17, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice, inupiaq, elders, local knowledge
| Links: | Big Idea: Pairing Scientific and Traditional Knowledge |
Ice Stories: Shorebirds in the Arctic (Webcast)
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In today's program Dr. Bart Kempenaers, a behavioral ecologist from the Max Planck Institiute of Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, talks about the research he and his team are doing on arctic breeding shorebirds in Barrow, Alaska.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 14, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 14, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
Ice Stories: Impact of Pollutants on Snow and Ice (Webcast)
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Amanda Grannas' research group at Villanova University studies a wide range of topics under the umbrella of "analytical environmental chemistry", including the impacts of pollutants in the snow and ice. We'll chat with Amanda about her current research in the Arctic.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 13, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 13, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
Ice Stories: Live from the Greenland Ice Cap (Webcast)
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Join us for this special Webcast from Summit Camp, which sits atop nearly 2 miles (about 3200 m) of ice on the Greenland ice cap. We'll talk with Zoe Courville, an Ice Stories blogger and snow researcher from the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, about life on top of an ice sheet. She'll also discuss her research into how snow becomes glaciers.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 12, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, greenland, scientists, dispatches, climate change, ice, snow, summit camp, ice sheets
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 12, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, greenland, scientists, dispatches, climate change, ice, snow, summit camp, ice sheets
| Links: | Project: Reading Snowflakes |
Ice Stories: Permafrost and Climate (Webcast)
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Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky is researching permafrost geophysics: the relationship between the frozen ground (permafrost) and climate. Join host Julie Konop as she asks Vladimir about his most recent data.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, permafrost, geology, biology, ice
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, climate change, permafrost, geology, biology, ice
Ice Stories: First Day in the Field (Webcast)
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00:32:01
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Weather permitting, correspondents Anne Jensen and Laura Thomas will have just returned from their first day at their field location at Nuvuk (a.k.a. Point Barrow). We'll take a look at conditions after the long winter, and watch as these scientists, and their students, prepare for a summer of digging.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 7, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, archeology, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: June 7, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic, ice stories, barrow, alaska, scientists, dispatches, archeology, climate change, geology, biology, oceanography, ice
| Links: | Project: Ancient Bones and Iñupiaq Culture |
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