Thomson Reuters named PSC Glaciologist Ian Joughin as one of The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2015. Congratulations to Ian for this well deserved honor recognizing his many contributions towards understanding ice sheets dynamics.
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A rotating crew of international scientists embarked on a research cruise in the Arctic and investigated the causes and effects of ice loss by monitoring the ice across its entire seasonal life cycle. UW polar scientist Kristin Laidre remarks, to Andy Isaacson of National Geographic, how further loss of sea ice could affect the Arctic marine ecosystem, from algae to polar bears.
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PSC members join their colleagues and peers at the AGU 2015 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California.
read more »In mid-September Arctic sea ice reaches its minimum extent and volume. There are annual fluctuations — 2012 was a record low for both measures — but reports of a recent ‘rebound’ are short-sighted. Axel Schweiger explains why the downward long-term trend is clear.
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NASA climate scientists report that Antarctica has gained ice in the form of snow accumulation. This study was recently published in the Journal of Glaciology and reporters have sought comments from their peers at the Polar Science Center.
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Results of a recent long-term and large-scale simulation of the collapse of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) show that the destabilization of the entire ice sheet would be irreversible if current conditions don’t change by 2075.
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Coast Guard C-130 take SIZRS crew to the North Pole
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PSC Glaciologist Ian Joughin was elected to be an AGU fellow as part of the class of 2015. Congratulations to Ian for this well-deserved honor recognizing his many contributions towards understanding ice sheets dynamics.
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Bering Strait is the only pathway between the Pacific and Arctic oceans. For 15 years now, APL-UW researchers and their multi-institutional colleagues have measured the properties of the flow through the strait with a series moorings that are recovered and re-deployed each summer. Follow their July 2015 CRUISE BLOG
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The Polar Science Center’s Harry Stern contributed the essay called Sea Ice in the Western Portal of the Northwest Passage from 1778 to the Twenty-First Century in this new book by the University of Washington Press.
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A new article published in Conservation Biology and featured in Science by lead author Kristin Laidre is the first to provide a comprehensive look at the current status of all Arctic marine mammal species and offer conservation recommendations.
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ONR Develops Program to Assist Ships While Navigating Through the Ice in the Arctic
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As part of the Future of Ice Initiative, the Polar Science Center at the Applied Physics Laboratory has added 3 new Principal Investigators.
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Scientific American reports on a new study deriving ice thickness trends from measurements by the Polar Science Center’s Ron Lindsay and Axel Schweiger’s article published in The Cryosphere.
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Alert in the Arctic: The Navy’s New Frontier. Features SIZRS, Jamie Morison, Sarah Dewey
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The Seattle Times reviewed the Imaging the Arctic exhibit at the Nordic Heritage Museum organized by Kristin Laidre and Maria Coryell-Martin.
read more »In mid-September Arctic sea ice reaches its minimum extent and volume. There are annual fluctuations — 2012 was a record low for both measures — but reports of a recent ‘rebound’ are short-sighted. Axel Schweiger explains why the downward long-term trend is clear.
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