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The amount of Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has become increasingly important to scientists and to the world population. Is our planet in a cycle of warming? Are humans having an impact on this natural cycle? What will happen to the global climate if the temperature

Friday (4/29) was spent processing samples from Thursday’s fieldwork, as well as prepping for the last day of water sampling on Saturday. I spent some time with Tara and Karie (Yager Team) talking about the scope of the project before they headed to the lab. Tara (Dr. Connelly) is a postdoctoral

Our time aboard the Palmer has come to an end when we arrived in Punta Arenas, Chile, after an uneventful sailing across the Strait of Magallanes last Saturday. The water is no longer of a deep blue color, but a whitish green. We got to see plenty oil exploration platforms along the strait. The deck

The Journey I am at Dallas-Fort Worth airport three hours from seeing my family. It is already hard to believe I was here 78 days ago full of illusion and expectation for the trip to come. The experience, which fulfilled those expectations, is now over, but it will take me a lot of time to

How many of you know what Sputnik is? I'm guessing the younger section of the audience may be scratching their heads. Sputnik was the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth. It was sent up into space by the Soviet Government (Russians). That was in 1957 and was a really big deal. Now we barely

The day began with a quick breakfast and a walk to the tunnel to start the melting process again. There are a number of rocks that have fallen, tons of debris that have floated along the water way to clear and bore holes to ream. The bore holes are long holes drilled through the granite into the ice

Today was focused on melting the horizontal chamber and on instrumentation. With the panel pulled from the vertical shaft there is time to look at the instruments that are used to measure the glacier's movement, The sensing instruments are the whole reason for going to this elaborate work! And it is

After snowing a fair amount last evening the morning was clear and nice. A new light carpet of snow covered everything and made the tundra look white. Most of it was gone by noon. We worked today on getting Site B up and running, but we made little progress. There seems to be an electrical problem

The day started at 8 am with the regular meal of salami, bread and cheese... and then it was all work. We have to get water to the pump so that melting of the glacier ice can begin and lights to illuminate the tunnel. The water is brought up from the side tunnel that is used to funnel water to the