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 | What's it like to be a research scientist working in the Arctic or Antarctica? We gave polar scientists video cameras and asked them to document their field work. Webcasts produced at the poles are another part of the Ice Stories project. |
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Browsing 80 - 90 results of 159 programs from project - Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists |
Ice Stories: Jakobshavn Isbræ Calving Timelapse, July 13 2008 (Clip)
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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 (60x real-time 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.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 13, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,
Keywords: glacier, greenland, icebergs, arctic, jakobshavn isbræ, glaciology, ice
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 13, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,
Keywords: glacier, greenland, icebergs, arctic, jakobshavn isbræ, glaciology, ice
Ice Stories: Peregrine Falcons in Greenland (Clip)
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While hiking back from a research site near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Ice Stories correspondent Billy D'Andrea happened upon a Peregrine Falcon scrape. Two falcons, not too thrilled that he was passing by their cliff-side nest, began circling and screaming to chase him off. In this video, listen for the sound of Wheatears (songbirds) chirping and yipping in the foreground.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: peregrine, falcons, greenland, wheaters, birds, arctic
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: peregrine, falcons, greenland, wheaters, birds, arctic
| Links: | Dispatch: Peregrine Falcons |
Ice Stories: Greenland Near Jakobsavn Glacier's Calving Front (Clip)
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Shots of the calving front of the Jakobsavn Glacier, Greenland's fastest moving glacier. Includes two shots of Mark Fahnestock's helicopter flying over.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: jakobsavn glacier, greenland, calving, helicopter, transportation, fahnestock
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: jakobsavn glacier, greenland, calving, helicopter, transportation, fahnestock
Ice Stories: Snow Freaks (Clip)
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Working in the snow all day takes a certain type of skill set: digging skills, drilling skills, and snowmobile driving skills. It also helps to love what you do.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: snow, digging, pit, ice sheet, greenland, shoveling, exercise, climate history
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: snow, digging, pit, ice sheet, greenland, shoveling, exercise, climate history
| Links: | Dispatch: Snow Freaks |
Ice Stories: Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland (Clip)
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Various shots of the margin of the Russell Glacier
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 8, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: russell glacier, kangerlussuaq, greenland, melting ice, run-off,
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 8, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: russell glacier, kangerlussuaq, greenland, melting ice, run-off,
Ice Stories: Greenland Ice Sheet Margin (Clip)
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Shots on the Greenland Ice Sheet, including water running off
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 8, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: russell glacier, kangerlussuaq, greenland, melting ice, run-off,
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 8, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: russell glacier, kangerlussuaq, greenland, melting ice, run-off,
Ice Stories: Greenland Arctic Fox Kit (Clip)
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00:02:18
Arctic Fox kits in the grass.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 8, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic fox, kit, baby, wildlife, greenland, kangerlussuaq
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: July 8, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: arctic fox, kit, baby, wildlife, greenland, kangerlussuaq
| Links: | Dispatch: Fox in Two Colors |
Ice Stories: Greenland, Ice Sheet Melting (Clip)
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Greenland Ice Sheet shots of melting
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: ice, sheet, greenland, melting, water
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: ice, sheet, greenland, melting, water
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 |
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