Congratulations to PSC investigator Ian Joughin for winning the 2012 Louis Agassiz Medal. Ian was awarded the Louis Agassiz Medal of the European Geophysical Union.
Features
Polar Science Weekend 2012
Polar Science Weekend is March 1-4, 2012 at Pacific Science Center located at the Seattle Center under the white arches.
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Iced In: Conservation Magazine, 2011-12-04
Recent research by Kristin Laidre and Harry Stern on the impacts of climate change on Arctic narwhals is published in Polar Biology. See the article in Conservation Magazine.
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More light under ice: Nature, 2011-11-09
Recent research by Bonnie Light on the optical properties of sea ice is published in Geophysical Research Letters. See the “Research Highlight” mentioned in Nature.
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A really bad year for Arctic Sea Ice: Science News, 2011-10-06
PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume and excerpts from an interview with Axel Schweiger are covered in Science News. Click to read full story
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Earth Initiatives: Microbes under the Greenland Ice Sheet, Oct 6, 2011
PSC Postdoc Karen Cameron‘s work with Karen Junge on the search for microbes under the Greenland Ice Sheet is featured in an Earth Initiatives Video Feature.
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A New Unified Sea Ice Thickness Climate Data Record
This new data set is a concerted effort to collect as many observations of sea ice thickness as possible in one place with consistent formats and with clear and abundant documentation. It will allow the community to better utilize what is now a considerable body of observations from moorings, submarines, aircraft, and satellites.
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Arctic Sea Ice Volume Anomaly
The Arctic Sea Ice Volume Anomaly time series is calculated using the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) developed at APL/PSC. Updates will be generated at approximately monthly intervals.
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Impacts of Arctic Storms on Landfast Ice Variations
This project is to examine over 30 years of landfast ice records, cyclone tracks and intensity along with frequency and timing of coastal high wind conditions, nearshore pack ice drift, and coastal weather observations in two representative arctic coastal regions.
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