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Science from the Poles: Once & Future Climate, Part 2: The Present (Webcast)

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!

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Date: December 2, 2006
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: climate change, global warming, temperature, atmosphere, tree rings, sediment cores, ice cores, oceans, sedimentation, ice balloon, cake, ping pong balls, sand

Real: 256K

Windows Media: 256K

Science from the Poles: Drilling Back to the Future: Live from McMurdo Station, Antarctica (Webcast)

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.

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Date: December 2, 2006
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: antarctica, mcmurdo, andrill, sediment cores, geologists,

Links:

ANDRILL Homepage

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Windows Media: 256K


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