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Ice Stories: Escorting Dynamite Through Siple Dome: Part 1 (Podcast)
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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
Keywords: siple dome, antarctica, explosives, seismic, deep field, camping, glaciers, glaciology
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 25, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: siple dome, antarctica, explosives, seismic, deep field, camping, glaciers, glaciology
| Links: | Dispatch: Escorting Dynamite Through Siple Dome |
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Ice Stories: Escorting Dynamite Through Siple Dome: Part 2 (Podcast)
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00:02:27
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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
Keywords: siple dome, antarctica, explosives, seismic, deep field, camping, glaciers, glaciology
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 25, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: siple dome, antarctica, explosives, seismic, deep field, camping, glaciers, glaciology
| Links: | Dispatch: Escorting Dynamite Through Siple Dome |
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Ice Stories: Traverse across Frozen McMurdo Sound (Clip)
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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
Keywords: traverse, mcmurdo sound, sea ice, skidoos, snowmobiles, antarctica
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 18, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: traverse, mcmurdo sound, sea ice, skidoos, snowmobiles, antarctica
| Links: | Dispatch: Journey to Our Field Camp |
Ice Stories: Interview with Glaciologist Mark Fahnestock, Part 2 (Clip)
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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
Keywords: glacier, ice sheet, glaciology, greenland, time-lapse, icebergs
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: glacier, ice sheet, glaciology, greenland, time-lapse, icebergs
| Links: | Dispatch: On Speeding Glaciers and Huge Icebergs, Part 2 |
Ice Stories: Interview with Glaciologist Mark Fahnestock, Part 3 (Clip)
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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
Keywords: glacier, ice sheet, glaciology, greenland
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: glacier, ice sheet, glaciology, greenland
| Links: | Dispatch: On Speeding Glaciers and Huge Icebergs, Part 2 |
Evidence: Alfred Wegener's Crazy Idea (Podcast)
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00:24:49
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An interview with Mel Zucker, Professor of Geology, Skyline College, San Bruno, California.
In the early 1900s, German meteorologist Alfred Wegener suggested that the earth's continents were once a single landmass that had somehow split into pieces, drifting their separate ways. Geologists the world over called his idea preposterous. Decades later, their ridicule shifted to admiration as new tools developed by the military to map the ocean floors revealed the engine that drives the continents' movement. Geology professor Mel Zucker tells the story of this brilliant earth scientist and how, long after his death, science finally caught up with Wegener's crazy idea.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 20, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: continental drift, plate tectonics
In the early 1900s, German meteorologist Alfred Wegener suggested that the earth's continents were once a single landmass that had somehow split into pieces, drifting their separate ways. Geologists the world over called his idea preposterous. Decades later, their ridicule shifted to admiration as new tools developed by the military to map the ocean floors revealed the engine that drives the continents' movement. Geology professor Mel Zucker tells the story of this brilliant earth scientist and how, long after his death, science finally caught up with Wegener's crazy idea.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 20, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: continental drift, plate tectonics
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Ice Stories: Interview with Glaciologist Mark Fahnestock, Part 1 (Clip)
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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
Keywords: glacier, ice sheet, glaciology, greenland
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: August 12, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: glacier, ice sheet, glaciology, greenland
| Links: | Dispatch: On Speeding Glaciers and Huge Icebergs |
Ice Stories: Diamond Hunters Stole Our Helicopter! (Clip)
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In the summer of 2008, the only helicopter in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, was effectively grounded by a diamond company, leaving scientists and logistics coordinators to frantically rearrange their field plans.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 24, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: helicopters, logistics, greenland, diamonds, hagglund, lakes, field site
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 24, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: helicopters, logistics, greenland, diamonds, hagglund, lakes, field site
| Links: | Dispatch: Diamond Hunters Stole Our Helicopter! |
Ice Stories: Interview with Geologist Tom Neumann (Clip)
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In this video interview from Greenland, geologist Tom Neumann from the University of Vermont explains how he and his colleagues are attempting to read the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet by collecting and analyzing rocks spit out from the base of the glacier.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 22, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: age dating, greenland ice sheet, cosmic rays, rocks, glaciology
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 22, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: age dating, greenland ice sheet, cosmic rays, rocks, glaciology
| Links: | Dispatch: Helicopter Safari for Rocks |
Ice Stories: Greenland Transportation (Clip)
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Landings and take-offs of helicopters, a twin otter airplane, a LC-130 Hercules transport plane; and a shot of a Hagglund tracked vehicle. Transportation used in Greenland to do scientific research.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: greenland, helicopter, twin otter, dhc-6, lc-130, hercules, herc, hagglund, transportation
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: greenland, helicopter, twin otter, dhc-6, lc-130, hercules, herc, hagglund, transportation
| Links: | Transportation in Support of Science: The LC-130 Hercules | Transportation in Support of Science: Helicopters | Transportation in Support of Science: The Twin Otter |
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