The Washington Post reports that although “Arctic Sea Ice Blog: Interesting News and Data” will be going on hiatus, the Arctic Sea Ice Forum will remain open and monthly PIOMAS updates will continue. Axel Schweiger comments on how the blog and the PSC dataset has helped create a thoughtful and detailed real-time public discourse.
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Mashable, the online news source, covered a study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, of a 20-mile-long rift in Pine Ice Glacier that eventually broke through the surface and cleaved off a 225-square-mile iceberg in July 2015. Mashable contacted PSC Glaciologist Ian Joughin to comment on the findings.
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PSC Glaciologist Ian Joughin is listed as one of the ‘highly cited researchers’ for 2016. Mass media and information firms, Clarivate Analytics and Thomson Reuters searched for the top 1% of papers most frequently cited between 2004 and 2014 from among 22 broad disciplines in the natural and social sciences.
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Harry Stern sits down with UW Today to discuss his research which involved accounts from early explorers to study the Arctic Ocean.
read more »The Seattle Times covered Harry Stern’s research study which tracked changes along the Arctic ice edge combining modern technology and historical records such as maps and logs from Captain James Cook’s 18th-century voyage.
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APL-UW has produced a video with Harry Stern and his research of the Arctic ice edge that incorporated logs and maps of Captain James Cook’s polar expedition among other early explorers.
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The University of Washington’s eScience Institute hosted a GeoHack week, November 14-18, 2016. PSC’s Anthony Arendt, Ben Hudson and David Shean helped lead this five-day workshop involving tutorials, data exploration, software development and community networking, with a focus on open source tools to analyze and visualize geospatial data.
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The New York Times reports on a study of narwhals led by Kristin Laidre. She and her team conducted field work collecting recordings to uncover how adept the species navigate their Arctic water habitat with sound.
read more »Popular Science reported on Harry Stern’s research paper which analyzed observations recorded by the earliest explorers of the Northwest Passage in correlation to the current trend in sea ice.
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In search of the Northwest Passage, Captain James Cook was the first to actually probe and chart the ice edge north of Bering Strait. Polar Geography has published Harry Stern’s research of Cook’s exploration of the Arctic and how other expeditions fared in comparison, resulting in a history of sea-ice observations from Cook’s time to the present.
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PSC Chair Axel Schweiger comments on a new study that allows the calculation of a “personal sea ice footprint”.
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Kristin Laidre led a research team that investigated the importance of glacial habitats using telemetry data from Narwhals which were captured and instrumented with satellite-linked time–depth–temperature recorders in Melville Bay, West Greenland, over numerous years. Read about the findings in Biology Letters.
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The Washington Post asks Ian Joughin about a recent study, in the journal Science Advances, using a GPS network which measures ice sheet mass loss in Greenland and re-evaluates previous studies.
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The Washington Post reports on the changes in Arctic sea ice and its effect on the polar bear. The main source of the article is a recent study by PSC’s Harry Stern and Kristin Laidre, published in The Cryosphere.
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UW Today highlights the latest article, by PSC’s Harry Stern and Kristin Laidre, published in The Cryosphere. Other media sources reporting the study are The Seattle Times, Science Daily, The Washington Post, Mashable, and Nature.com
read more »The Seattle Times reports on the Arctic-wide analysis of changes in sea ice that have the greatest impact on polar bears, conducted by the PSC’s Harry Stern and Kristin Laidre.
read more »The University of Washington’s eScience Institute is hosting a GeoHack week, November 14-18, 2016. Join PSC’s Anthony Arendt and Ben Hudson for this five day workshop focusing on open source tools to analyze and visualize geospatial data. Geohackweek will also include a team from Google Earth Engine set to lead a series of sessions. Application deadline is September 15, 2016.
read more »An international team of researchers, including Kristin Laidre, conducted a study involving genetic variability in polar bears. Read about the study in Animal Conservation.
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Ignatius Rigor collaborated on a study of Antarctic sea ice change using satellite observations. Read the paper presenting the findings in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment.
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The Arctic Ocean is gaining open water each summer, with some scientists predicting that the warming planet will see an Arctic Ocean that’s completely ice-free in late summer by around the middle of this century.
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Global warming not so global? PSC postdoc Aaron Donohoe has co-authored a study recently published in Nature Geoscience showing how and why the Antarctic Ocean has not warmed in comparison to what has been observed in the Arctic.
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The International Journal of Remote Sensing has published a study by Ben Hudson and his UC colleagues which assessed turbid water detection and cloud mask performance of NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) MOD35_L2 cloud mask.
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Seattle Girls’ School has named PSC PI Kristin Laidre recipient of their 2016 Grace Hopper Award for Outstanding Achievement. Kristin is being recognized for her successful endeavors to make her research efforts accessible to many age groups.
She will be honored at the SGS 14th Annual Luncheon on May 5, 2016. Congratulations, Kristin!
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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.
read more »The Quaternary Research Center (QRC) and the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, are seeking Postdoctoral Research Associates with interests in the polar regions.
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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
read more »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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Mónica V. Orellana is included in The Oceanography Society’s publication of “Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later.” This supplementary issue of Oceanography includes more that 200 autobiographical sketches that provide a broad view or the types of research oceanographers conduct.
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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 »Seattle’s Most Influential People of 2014 includes Ian Joughin from the Polar Science Center. Read the section called Ice Breaker for more.
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Airborne and satellite observations of West Antarctic topography and glacier flow speeds are combined with a computer model simulating ocean-driven glacier melting to show that the ice sheet’s collapse is already underway.
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The University of Washington is launching a new initiative to boost research in polar regions and prepare students for a world where melting ice is opening new opportunities — and posing new threats. Read the Seattle Times article to learn more about this new program.
read more »The Polar Science Center is inviting applications for research scientists with principal investigator responsibilities. We seek candidates who have completed their post doctoral research with a record that demonstrates high potential to develop their own well-funded program. Initial research support over a nominal 2-year period will come from start-up funds and existing project funds.
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A new modeling study conducted by Dr. Jinlun Zhang to be published in the Journal of Climate shows that stronger polar winds lead to an increase in Antarctic sea ice, even in a warming climate.
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Learn more about the science behind the web cams and the North Pole Environmental Observatory and watch the clip from the Colbert Report.
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Expeditionary artist Maria Coryell-Martin has traveled to Niaqornat, Greenland with Kristin Laidre to document the work being done to monitor narwhals. Maria will be posting field updates with photos and artwork through mid-April.
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Increasing summer ice melt in the Arctic Ocean could shift global weather patterns and make polar waters more navigable. But scientists say forecasting Arctic ice and weather remains a massive challenge. The prospect of more ice-free water during Arctic Ocean summers has triggered efforts to improve ice and weather forecasts at the top of the world
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