Complexities of climate change
Climate change remains a complex issue. It’s not as simple as turning up the heat by burning fossil fuels. Many scientists at Byrd Polar Research...
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Moving experience
In Antarctica, where the weight of its mighty ice sheets have squashed the earth’s crust below, Terry Wilson and an international team of scientists are...
Getting the word out
The San Francisco-based science museum Exploratorium is bringing polar research in the Arctic and Antarctic to a laptop or home computer near you with live...
Winter no relief
Even the Antarctic winter cannot protect the Wilkins Ice Shelf. More ice broke away from the disintergrating ice shelf, the European Space Agency reported in...
Public education
Carol Landis retired from teaching five years early – and went right to work educating the public about what scientists are doing at Ohio State...
Science goes to new heights
Lonnie Thompson has made more than 50 science expeditions to some 15 countries over the last 30-odd years. He solidified his reputation earlier this decade...
Earthshaking discovery
Douglas Wiens and colleagues combined seismological and GPS data to reveal that an ice stream in West Antarctica releases two bursts of seismic waves every...
Without a trace
Ice cores contain a wealth of information about past climate and environmental conditions, with clues in the form of trapped bubbles of gas and varying...
Dusting up
Ellen Mosley-Thompson helped pioneer ice core research beginning in the 1970s, when she and her colleague, Lonnie Thompson, discovered that dust particles could tell scientists...
