In northern Greenland, there’s a large region of ice that flows unusually quickly. Only discovered in the 1990s from studying satellite images, this feature is…
Last post Nat introduced the concept of computer code as a tool for scientists (including oceanographers), and highlighted the IPython Notebook — one of the…
Last post, Andree wrote about archiving data with NODC. I’d like to share something in a similar vein that I think is important not just…
One of the most important aspects of any project is the requirement to submit data to data repositories such as National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC),…
The melting of icebergs beneath the ocean’s surface, or submarine melting, occurs continuously as the submerged portion of the iceberg is exposed to relatively warm…
The Greenland Ice Sheet gains mass in the winter through snowfall and loses mass in the summer through surface melting and icebergs calving off the…
Tasiilaq, Greenland, Friday, Feb. 6, 1970. 6 p.m. Dead silence falls over Tasiilaq. Daylight is long gone in this village on the southeast coast of…
Throwing moorings into the ocean and expecting to get them back comes with risk. And if you’re the worrying type, strapping expensive equipment to a…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117763717″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /] The Arctic is the realm of ice. A frozen world of tall snowcapped coastal peaks. Of polar…
The fatal blow was definitely not the first hit. Icebergs plowed over Mooring SF1, again and again, for thirteen months. Every few weeks, SF1’s underwater…