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Geotimes
June 2005
Naomi Lubick
Lonnie Thompson: Tracking Ice in the Tropics His work exploring some of the most remote alpine glaciers in the world has established their value as a repository of climate data -- and their rapid disappearance, which has accelerated alarmingly as global climate changes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Smithsonian
July 2007
J. Madeleine Nash
Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2006
Naomi Lubick
Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work. mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
February 14, 2009
Lonnie Thompson
Receding Glaciers Erase Records Of Climate History Ice masses on the tops of mountains -- sticking out in the free atmosphere -- have been collecting climate data and storing them, in many cases for very long periods. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
April 2007
Megan Sever
Ancient Glaciers Melting Quickly Peru's Qori Kalis is one of the few remaining tropical glaciers, and it may be gone in five years, reported a glaciologist at Ohio State University. The melting of the Quelccaya Ice Cap poses new hazards to the people living in valleys below the peak. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2006
Powell et al.
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales. mark for My Articles similar articles
Adventure
August 2004
Lolly Merrell
The Vanishing World of Lonnie Thompson A secret history of the world's climate, including global warming, is buried deep inside glaciers atop the world's tallest peaks. But as temperatures rise, those records are melting. One paleontologist/climatologist is racing to preserve a crucial piece of our past- in his freezer. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
April 2000
Oliver Morton
Ice Station Vostok The fast track to the moons of Jupiter - and the key to life on Earth - is a prehistoric lake nearly three miles beneath the Antarctic ice cap. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
February 19, 2010
Trevor Williams
On Thick Ice: Live From An Antarctic Drilling Trip The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is exploring the ocean floor around Antarctica to learn how the ice sheet reacted in warmer climates of the past and how they might respond to future warming. mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2008
Peter Brown
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
September 22, 2008
Damon Tabor
Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Paden et al.
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar mark for My Articles similar articles
Smithsonian
October 2006
Anne Bolen
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Erico Guizzo
Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
May 2004
Sara Pratt
Ice in the Greenhouse? The greenhouse world of the Late Cretaceous, long thought to be ice-free, may have been chillier than previously predicted. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2004
The Global Lakes Drilling Effort A long history of research on relatively young lake basins illustrates the utility of studying lake sediments for information on such diverse topics as past climate, landscape modification, biological evolution, regional tectonics and hydrocarbon formation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2004
Kasey White
A New Era of Ocean Drilling Sets Sail As the JOIDES Resolution arrived in Galveston, Texas, last September after completing its 110th and final Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) expedition, scientists celebrated the many advances made during the program. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
November 2003
Sara Pratt
Stuck between a rock and a cold place A stalagmite mined from an island cave in the Indian Ocean suggests that the ages currently assigned to the gold standard of ancient climate records -- the Greenland ice cores -- need revision for the period between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick
Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
December 7, 2007
Logan Ward
Climate Engineers Build UAV, Radar to Process Subzero Mystery Combining digital radar equipment with unmanned aircraft gives scientists a much-needed edge in understanding why the polar ice sheets are undergoing rapid changes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
November 2007
Nicole Branan
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever
An ending begets a beginning in oceanic drilling The Resolution's retirement from Ocean Drilling Program expeditions ushers in a new era for ocean drilling and research. mark for My Articles similar articles
Outside
February 2004
Natasha Singer
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 17, 2009
Trevor Williams
Ocean Drilling Tech: Exploring Seabed History With 600,000 Pounds of Pipe On the rig floor of the JOIDES Resolution, Joe Attryde turns up the water pressure in the drill pipe to 2500 psi, enough to break the shear pins holding the core barrel three miles below the ship and plunge the barrel another 30 feet into the deep sea sediment. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 3, 2009
Trevor Williams
Ocean Drilling: How the Past Can Provide Clues to our Planet's Future Climate By pulling cores of ancient ooze from beneath the ocean floor, scientists hope to learn how the Earth responded to climate change 50 million years ago and how it may react to future warming. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
April 2005
Geomedia Arctic Climate Change in Photos... Book review: Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Doug Macdougall... Mapping Sinkhole Risk in Maryland... mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
October 2003
Sara Pratt
New model for glacial erosion Understanding what controls glacial erosion may have important implications for understanding glaciated mountain belts and modeling both ancient and current ice sheets. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
March 15, 2010
Trevor Williams
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2004
Sara Pratt
A Fresh Angle on Oil Drilling Now, horizontal drilling seems more relevant than ever. With the ongoing debate about opening up more of Alaska's North Slope to oil exploration, the discussion often turns to new technologies that may have the potential to make oil extraction more efficient, more cost effective and more environmentally sound. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
July 2004
Brendan I. Koerner
The Seismic Underground It's the sweet spot of the San Andreas fault, the perfect place to build the ultimate earthquake science lab. It's also 2 miles straight down. mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
September 2008
Krista West
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2005
Robert Williams
Drilling Machine Explores Ocean A remotely operated underwater drilling system that can operate at depths of up to 4,000 meters is being developed by Schilling Robotics LLC, for the Marum Center for Marine Environmental Sciences of the University of Bremen. mark for My Articles similar articles
Outside
October 2002
Ian Frazier
Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
December 2004
Sara Pratt
Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas. mark for My Articles similar articles
Outside
December 2004
Mark Jenkins
Freezer Burn How do you go native on an island made of ice? Scale glaciers, strip down, and steam it off. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 2007
Margo Pfeiff
Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2004
Nakada & Eichelberger
Looking Into a Volcano: Drilling Unzen Geologists have long wanted to peer inside a volcano. Although we have good evidence from extinct and eroded volcanoes of their inner structure, we know little about the conditions in and near active volcanic conduits. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
July 2002
Michael Behar
Cold Rush Long hours. Subfreezing winds. months of absolute darkness. Welcome to the South Pole, where the coolest science outpost on earth is being built atop 9,000 feet of solid ice. The area is a benchmark for monitoring the health of the atmosphere and an ideal site for studying astronomy. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2005
Naomi Lubick
Paleo-Antarctic Puzzle Even though Antarctica was at the south pole around 35 million years ago, it was warm and relatively ice free. What exactly caused its shift to a deep freeze has long puzzled paleoclimatologists. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
Dave Levitan
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
June 2004
Naomi Lubick
Tapping Methane Hydrates in the Gulf The research program in the Gulf of Mexico, officially known as the Chevron Texaco-Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Industry Project, will assess the threats of drilling through unstable methane hydrate and other gas deposits, from collapsed boreholes to the potential to destabilize offshore slopes. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2009
Austin Wright
Polar Ice Surveillance At Rock Bottom Prices University of Kansas researchers needed an unmanned aerial vehicle that could carry 120 pounds worth of radar equipment at low altitudes and over icy terrain to measure vital information for the Navy in Antarctica. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
August 24, 2009
Christopher Mims
Hammers, Water, Lasers Make Deep Drilling Easier The process of punching a well hasn't changed in a century, so researchers are focusing efforts on the development of a new generation of drills to improve drill time. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Jeff Wise
Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson
Small Cap Drills Differently Gas producer Petroleum Development has a different operating structure, but it seems to be working. Investors must do their own due diligence, of course. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
October 1, 2008
Andrew Moseman
Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic. mark for My Articles similar articles