8 February 2021 Yes, There is Hope. Here's Why.

Salt Marsh, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
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----------- Weather ----------- Weather: Sunny Temp: 33 F Wind Speed: 5 MPH Wind Chill: 27 F ----------- Location ----------- Location: Oxford, Maine, United States of America Coordinates: 44.1317, 70.4932 ----------- Yes, There is Hope. Here's Why. ----------- The very first class of a brand-new

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Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System

Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System
Dates
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Location
Eastern Eurasian Basin

What Are They Doing?

Deployment and recovery of mooringsDeployment and recovery of moorings

Research is carried out through the NABOS (Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System) program. The goal of this study is to develop a comprehensive and quantitative understanding of how the Eastern Eurasian Basin (EEB) functions as a switchgear, accumulating and releasing major Arctic riverine transports and redistributing ice and freshwater between the eastern and western Arctic in response to atmospheric and oceanic forcings. Three biennial cruises, planned for August-September, will take measurements between Franz Josef Land and the central East Siberian Sea, following a path that moves from shallow water to the deep sea. The sampling program connects observations using moorings, ship sampling, and drifters.

Jonathan Pazol
Jonathan Pazol
Educator
West Leyden High School

Northlake, IL
United States

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9 January 2021 Start In The Backyard

Tumbledown Mountain
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Start In The Backyard ##Simple Questions, Complex Answers ”Hey Ms. Towns, can ice sheets and glaciers really fully melt and disappear?” ”Why should we care? We live in Maine.” ”I mean, is it really going to happen up there in the Arctic?” Students pose big questions that at first glance, look
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30 December 2020 Bring Antarctic to your living room! (And other places!)

Photograph of IceCube Observatory with multicolored sensors beneath the ice
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When we can't go to Antarctica, we bring Antarctic to us! In order to keep Antarctica COVID-free, the PolarTREC teachers have postponed our journeys until 2021-2022. (And so have most of our research teams!) But that doesn't mean we are far from polar research! In fact, the IceCube team launched

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18 December 2020 Are You A Good Snowstorm... Or A Bad Snowstorm?

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I haven't been to the arctic yet, though some days it feels like I live there. We had a snowstorm yesterday. It dropped 8" of the fluffy stuff on the ground, causing my school to cancel classes for the day. I can't say I was upset by it, because when you live on a farm and you get nearly a foot of

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