Polar Science Center - APL-UW

In the News

Smithsonian Magazine, May 2009

Ballerina turned biologist Kristin Laidre gives her all to study the elusive, deep-diving, ice-loving whale known as the 'unicorn of the sea', by Abigail Tucker

Greeland Meltwater and Ian Joughin in the news

Greenland Ice Slipping Away but Not All That Quickly in Science Magazine
Good Signs from Greenland's Ice Sheet on National Public Radio
Water Power Cracks Ice Sheet on Science Friday.

'Freezer Lab' Simulates Snowball Earth Conditions

Physicist Bonnie Light's research in the APL-UW Cryosphere Science Laboratory is included in the examination of what an hypothesized frozen Earth of the distant past may have been like for the TV series Naked Science on the National Geographic Channel.

Archived

		Polar Science Weekend, March 6-8, 2008 For the third year in a row the Polar Science Center is teaming up with Pacific Science Center for Polar Science Weekend. This is a chance for the public to meet researchers and see the equipment they use and learn more about the polar regions.
		Arctic Adventure! Ocean Tales of Currents and Creatures Lecture Series, Feb. 12, Feb. 26, and March 11. Please join the UW College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences and the UW Alumni Association for this exciting lecture series focusing on the research of COFS scientists in the Arctic. Learn what it's like to live and work in this remote, inhospitable and ever-changing part of the world!
		2007-2008 Applied Physics Laboratory Biannual Report This year's Applied Physics Laboratory Biannual Report includes a nice article, with great photographs, about Ian Joughin's research on Greenland's glacial melt. The Biannual report also features a variety of other projects that other department's within the lab are conducting.
		AIDJEX Revisited article published in Arctic Journal AIDJEX Revisited: A Look Back at the US-Canadian Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment 1970-78 (Untersteiner, N., A.S. Thorndike, D.A. Rothrock, and K.L. Hunkins) was published in the September 2007 issue of Arctic Journal.
		AIDJEX Bulletin Library now online The full set of AIDJEX Bulletins have been converted to PDF files at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA under the direction of Ron Kwok and with financial support from NASA. Visit the web site to browse the complete contents and download Bulletins.