Education: Antarctic Field Update #2, AUV, for Ages 5 to 11
Educators: this worksheet about an autonomous underwater vehicle was designed for students ages 5 to 11 and accompanies our Snow on Ice blog from early 2019.
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Amundsen Sea Embayment Coastal Changes Time Series - High Resolution
See ThwaitesGlacierProjectCompositeFiles_v1.xlsx for more information.
List of Thwaites Glacier Composite Files
This file accompanies ASECompositeLandsatTimeSeries.pptx.
Educational infographic - Issued by NERC and NSF, this provides an overview of what ITGC scientists are doing, and why.
Snow on Ice: Synergizing Science #9
The crane lowered the little orange submarine until it finally touched down snuggly onto its ramp on the back deck of the Palmer. Behind it, the overcast, foggy skies blended into the glacier front a few kilometers away and down to the rest of the ocean surrounding us. As soon as the Hugin rested in its aluminum cradle, Anna Wåhlin, eyes bright and a devious smile beaming across her face, gave a giant high five to Aleksandra Mazur.
Carolyn Beeler of PRI's The World reports: The research team aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer is starting to wrap up their work studying Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. As the Amundsen Sea starts to freeze up, the captain of the ship will be constantly on the lookout for gaps in the ice that will carry the ship home.
Retrieving good mud from the bottom of the ocean is just the beginning of telling a story about Antarctica, by Jeff Goodell of Rolling Stone magazine.
How quickly will Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier melt, and what will that mean for global sea levels and coastal cities? Researchers are sailing toward Thwaites this month on the first leg of a five-year, international effort to try to answer that pressing question, and along the way they’re enlisting local seals as research assistants. Reporting by Carolyn Beeler of PRI's The World.
A medical emergency aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer sends the ship and reporter Carolyn Beeler back north just as they’re about to reach the Thwaites Glacier.
Carolyn Beeler of PRI's The World reports that the Research Vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer arrived at Thwaites Glacier on Feb. 26, roughly a month after leaving Punta Arenas, Chile. During its first day in front of the glacier, the Palmer traced a roughly 100-mile path around the edge of Thwaites mapping portions of the sea floor that were previously uncharted.
