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National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright |
Polar Ice Surveillance At Rock Bottom Prices University of Kansas researchers needed an unmanned aerial vehicle that could carry 120 pounds worth of radar equipment at low altitudes and over icy terrain to measure vital information for the Navy in Antarctica. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Dave Levitan |
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss |
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. |
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up. |
InternetNews August 21, 2007 Paul Shread |
Grid Spans the Globe A new 'Polar Grid' will help scientists measure the effects of global warming in real time. |
Scientific American September 2008 Krista West |
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve |
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever |
A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater. |
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming. |
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales. |
Scientific American April 2007 David Biello |
Conservative Climate The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's consensus document may understate the climate change problem. |
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt |
Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas. |
Geotimes April 2007 Sally Adee |
Massive Antarctic Lakes Discovered The recent discovery of a massive "plumbing" system of linked reservoirs 1,000 meters beneath two major ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may help fill out climate change models. |
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work. |
Geotimes October 2003 Sara Pratt |
New model for glacial erosion Understanding what controls glacial erosion may have important implications for understanding glaciated mountain belts and modeling both ancient and current ice sheets. |
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Heat Imbalance Portends Problems Results from a new assessment show that Earth is absorbing more energy than it releases into space, with implications for climate change that researchers say point to future warming with consequences for melting ice sheets and sea-level rise. |
Popular Mechanics October 1, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic. |
Science News February 14, 2009 Lonnie Thompson |
Receding Glaciers Erase Records Of Climate History Ice masses on the tops of mountains -- sticking out in the free atmosphere -- have been collecting climate data and storing them, in many cases for very long periods. |
Geotimes October 2007 Moran & Backman |
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic. |
Geotimes June 2007 Megan Sever |
Antarctic Ice May be Grinding to a Halt Some of Antarctica's ice sheets may not be in as much danger as once thought. |
Popular Mechanics July 1, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
5 Climate Studies That Don't Live Up to Their Hype A leading climate scientist argues that overbroad claims by some researchers -- coupled with overblown reporting in the media -- can undermine the public's understanding of climate issues. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Erico Guizzo |
Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier. |
National Defense June 2010 Austin Wright |
Lightweight Radars to Monitor Ice from Above NASA plans to replace ground-based ice-sensing radars with lightweight devices that could monitor glaciers from above. |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community. |
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick |
Glacial earthquakes Seismologists have fingered glaciers as one source of newly discovered "slow" earthquakes. |
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb |
Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments. |
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever |
Conveyor Belt Shutdown Not Imminent As the climate warms and ice on Greenland melts, freshwater pours into the North Atlantic, which new research suggests is unlikely to cause a shutdown in global ocean circulation. |
Outside October 2002 Ian Frazier |
Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom. |
Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics. |
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip This trip is meant to be a dry run for an even more extreme environment -- the surface of Mars. |
Wired April 2000 Oliver Morton |
Ice Station Vostok The fast track to the moons of Jupiter - and the key to life on Earth - is a prehistoric lake nearly three miles beneath the Antarctic ice cap. |
Smithsonian July 2007 J. Madeleine Nash |
Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought. |
Wired September 22, 2008 Damon Tabor |
Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative. |
Smithsonian July 2006 Amy Crawford |
Al Gore Discusses "An Inconvenient Truth" The former vice president and environmentalist talks about his new documentary film in which he travels the world presenting a slide show about global climate change. |
Popular Mechanics May 1, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Ice Sculptures for Science: Chain Saws, Pickaxes, Methane Hydrates and Climate Change One of the greatest unknowns regarding the future pace of climate change involves a source of greenhouse gases we can't even see, let alone control. |
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions. |
National Defense August 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Unmanned Aircraft Could Monitor Polar Ice Caps Advances in unmanned surveillance aircraft would make it possible for the Navy to keep watch over the polar ice caps 24/7. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2013 Jessica Cocker |
Banned pollutants bite back A new study from scientists in Denmark and the UK says another worrying consequence of global temperature rises is that, as sea ice melts, banned pesticides are being reemitted into the open environment. |
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models. |
Scientific American March 2007 Charles Q. Choi |
Pole Positions More than 30 nations are initiating a global campaign to study the Arctic and Antarctic: an International Polar Year. |
Geotimes June 2004 Sara Pratt |
Why the Wobble? A new study says that the shifting of masses of water and ice around the globe's surface primarily drives the seasonal wobbleon its axis. The finding could lead to new ways to monitor global change. |
Geotimes March 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Climate Report Points Finger at Fossil Fuels The world is warming, and the burning of fossil fuels is very likely to blame, according to a new report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
No More "Snows of Kilimanjaro"? Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers have receded dramatically, making the highest point in Africa a high-profile poster child for global warming. Some scientists contend, however, that Kilimanjaro is a poor example, as its glaciers were disappearing before warming set in. |
Geotimes May 2004 Sara Pratt |
Ice in the Greenhouse? The greenhouse world of the Late Cretaceous, long thought to be ice-free, may have been chillier than previously predicted. |
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Longer polar ice record Geoscientists have beefed up a dataset documenting ice cover at Earth's poles, revealing a longer and slightly different picture than painted in the past by satellite observations. |
Geotimes May 2003 Greg Peterson |
A new trigger for Ice Age retreat About 14,600 years ago, a huge pulse of freshwater drained from continental ice sheets into the world's oceans. Now scientists have a new theory for where it came from. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
New Avionics introduces all-plastic ice sensor for UAVs The Model 9732-UAV ice-detecting transducer probe solves the problem of conductive metallic interference with mission-critical radio antennas on UAVs and other small aircraft. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller |
UAV Aircraft and Crowded Civil Air Space: Is it Safe Out There? It's only a matter of time before the aerial unmanned vehicle take their place in civilian air space. How are we going to fit all these planes? |
Popular Mechanics February 28, 2008 Erik Sofge |
Crash-Proof UAVs Fly Blind at MIT's High-Tech Aerodrome The Real-Time Indoor Autonomous Vehicle Test Environment (RAVEN) lab allows researches to test new designs for unmanned aircraft. |
Geotimes November 2003 Mahmood et al. |
Snapshots from Space of the World's Continents Studying Earth as a system -- including the hydrological, biological, geochemical, cryospheric and solid earth components -- requires routine acquisition of high-resolution, synoptic-scale observations that can be composited into snapshots of Earth in a sequence of moments. |