Ice Sheets & Climate Change
ILULISSAT, GREENLAND– We spent a lot of time at the Ilulissat airport, hopping on helicopters at every opportunity but also hanging out with the crew on an ice-mapping project out of the University of...
View ArticleMinding the Data for Ice Sheets
ILULISSAT, GREENLAND– In this video, we talk with Jeaime Powell, a graduate student from Elizabeth City State University working on the Polar Grid project. After every twin-otter airplane flight made...
View ArticleTransportation in Support of Science: Helicopters
ILULISSAT, GREENLAND– (By Lisa Strong-Aufhauser) In a place as remote as Greenland, getting science done takes a lot of planning, logistics, and, let’s face it, money. There are no roads between towns...
View ArticleTransportation in Support of Science: The Twin Otter
ILULISSAT, GREENLAND– (By Lisa Strong-Aufhauser) An aircraft we never did get to fly in while it was on its science mission was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter. A joint University of Kansas/NASA...
View ArticleTransportation in Support of Science: The LC-130 Hercules
SUMMIT CAMP, GREENLAND– (By Lisa Strong-Aufhauser) We, but even more so, I, spent a lot of time in LC-130 Hercules transport planes operated by the U.S. Air National Guard out of Stratton Air Force...
View ArticleUpdate on Greenland’s Glaciers
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS– Last time we saw Mark Fahnestock was in Greenland, as he was wrapping up his season’s field work on the Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of the most productive and fastest-moving glaciers in...
View ArticlePure as the Driven Snow
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — (By Lisa Strong-Aufhauser) Even the snow on top of the Greenland ice sheet is not as pure as you’d think. Dr. Joe McConnell from the Desert Research Institute in Reno,...
View ArticleWelcome to Greenland!
KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND– Today Kaitlin Keegan, a first year PhD student at Dartmouth College, and my field assistant, and I flew from Scotia, NY, to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, our first stop on the way...
View ArticleIn the Trenches
NEEM CAMP, GREENLAND– Over at the deep drilling site, work continues day and night. There are two shifts of drillers and core handlers who work around the clock (day shift and night shift) to ensure...
View ArticleA Rare Greenlandic Snow Penguin Sighting
NEEM CAMP, GREENLAND– The question that I probably get asked most often (besides “did you see any penguins?”) about my trips to the poles is what evidence I’ve seen for climate change. This is always a...
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