Sentences with phrase «ice scientist tonia»

A Festival of Conscience talk - back with Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, Arctic Ice Scientist, was held after the reading.

But according to Joey Comiso, a sea ice scientist at Goddard, the recovery flattened last winter and will likely reverse after this melt season.

But so far five of the first six months of 2016 set record low averages, said NASA sea ice scientist Walt Meier.

Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, Arctic Ice Scientist whose theories are presented in the play will speak about this summer's Arctic Ice Melt and dialogue with the audience about anthropomorphic climate change and what we can do.

«We haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower, as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

We're looking at why that is,» said sea ice scientist Nathan Kurtz of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Look, for instance, at the animation at the top of this page, generated by Delft University of Technology ice scientist Stef Lhermitte using Worldview.

The center asked Meier, the NASA ice scientist, to verify the chart.

Similarly, Mark Brandon, a sea - ice scientist at the Open University, reproduced an interesting series of tweets and links to articles that showed the development of the current panic about ice, beginning with (alleged) comedian Marcus Brigstocke's misconception of the story.

Ice scientist Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre announced the cold facts at the American Geophysical Union scientific meeting in San Francisco on Monday.

«The winter maximum gives you a head start, but the minimum is so much more dependent on what happens in the summer that it seems to wash out anything that happens in the winter,» Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, explained in a recent statement.

[See the update below including a sea - ice scientist's take on such wagers.]

Inspired by crusading climate scientist, James Hansen, and Arctic ice scientist Jennifer Francis, and praised by both.

The invaluable Peter Sinclair caught up with Danish ice scientist Jorgen Peder Steffensen, and posted a five minute video.

As one researcher admits, if you're heading for thin ice, you want a native elder, not an ice scientist, at your side.

The new model is the first to document and quantify this new feedback — one that is not accounted for in climate models, says Jason Box, an ice scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen, who has documented rising impurities at a local scale during field campaigns.

«This year is the fourth lowest, and yet we haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

But according to Joey Comiso, a sea ice scientist at Goddard, the recovery flattened last winter and will likely reverse after this melt season.

82 Secret Lakes Lie Under Polar Ice Scientists have found evidence of subglacial lakes and rivers far under the surface of Antarctica...

My emails and calls to more than a dozen experienced ice scientists produced about a 50/50 split on whether Greenland or Antarctica was the biggest short - term risk.

There's more on the paper below from the lead author, Svend Funder of the University of Copenhagen, and some independent ice scientists I queried about the work.

I have a question for the ice scientists: If an ice free Arctic summer becomes routine, say in 2013, how much will the absorption feedback vs. normal albedo raise global temperature?

But most of the dozen or so ice scientists I've consulted of late (and several dozen since 2000) remain closer in their views to Cecilia Bitz of the University of Washington, who recently agreed with my notion (as a longtime, but lay, observer) that there's «a 50 - 50 chance it will take a few decades.»

Still, there are many other veteran sea - ice scientists (this is not false balance) who note that the complexity of this system has consistently defied predictions in either direction (see this year's Sea Ice Outlook forecasts to get the range of forecasts).

Some other sea ice scientists (Jennifer Francis at Rutgers and Ignatius Rigor at the University of Washington) told me they are not ready to call it a season, noting that atmospheric pressure and some other conditions over the basin could lead to further shrinkage of ice extent in the next week or so.

Apparently there is about to be a civil war between combative ice scientists.

The Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis Web site provides daily data on Arctic sea ice along with monthly analysis of conditions by sea ice scientists.

The USGS site only has data to 2010 and lists nine «Polar Bear and Sea Ice Scientists».

Not exact matches

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

And in many, many cases — such as with ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, or ice shelf traveling speeds — scientists have recorded the data for decades, systematically, consistently, and with precision.

«We're excited by the potential this new ingredient has for improving ice cream, for consumers and for manufacturers,» Cait MacPhee, the lead scientist on the project, tells The Telegraph.

A team of top scientists explores the fastest warming place on Earth, as they examine the rapidly melting ice sheet of the West Antarctic Peninsula.

It's estimated that roughly 99 percent of Earth's land ice is stored in the ice sheets that cover Antarctica and Greenland, so their health is something scientists — and the world — can no longer ignore.

The discovery is incredibly important, though, because it shows scientists exactly why the most vulnerable parts of Greenland's ice are melting so quickly — each summer since 1997, melting ice that would usually be captured and refrozen the next winter is now flowing straight out to sea.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

The melting adds between 120 and 140 tons of ice to the ocean, which scientists say will raise water levels globally anywhere from 1.33 to 1.5 inches each year.

All of that has led scientists to see that the glaciers are losing almost 23 feet of ice each year and the specific glaciers studied all contribute to sea levels around the world into the Amudsen Sea.

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

The image showed that the amount of sea ice around the poles is dramatically lower than scientists would have predicted.

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

All the forces of nature that we used to call «acts of God» have become, at least in part, acts of humankind (excepting volcanoes and earthquakes — though scientists this winter announced that lurching ice had more than doubled the number of earthquakes under Greenland).

Australian scientists have welcomed the success of a five - year Greenland ice core drilling project that is expected to reveal a record of more than 130 000 years and provide an insight into future global climate.

When alarmists charged that the polar bear was being hunted to extinction, the outcry sent scientists like Lee Miller and Jack Lentfer (below) off across the ice on a rewarding research trail

Again, while I am not a scientist or medical doctor, I don't necessarily agree, especially if the amount of what Bob Cantu calls «total brain trauma» can be significantly reduced through a combination of limits on full - contact practices and / or hit counts, rule changes, and if we do a better job of identifying concussive injury to get concussed players off the field (or ice, or field, or court, or pitch), and and hold kids out longer before they are allowed to return to play so the risk of reinjury is reduced as much as reasonably possible.

Those scientists said LFTB's substance is «like coupe» — an ice cream or sherbet dessert — with «a consistency like mashed potatoes.»

Beginning in the upper floors of her father's grocer's shop in Grantham, through Oxford as a scientist and, later, as part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice cream, she embarked upon a political career.

ROSS ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA — Any day now, a team of 40 scientists and support personnel expects to begin shoveling ice and snow into a melting bin.

Seeing these discouraging results, Woodruff and colleague Lonnie Shea, a materials scientist, suggested suspending individual immature follicles in tiny beads of alginate, a substance derived from brown algae and commonly used as an ice cream thickener.

Scientists created a new form of water — called superionic ice — that acts like a weird cross between a solid and a liquid, The New York Times reports.

«What's new and exciting here is that these ice sheets start quite shallowly,» says planetary scientist Colin Dundas of the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Ariz..