Sentences with phrase «ice scientists»

«We started from a low September minimum extent,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«This is IceBridge's ninth year in the Arctic and we're expecting this to be one of our most extensive campaigns to date,» said Nathan Kurtz, Operation IceBridge's project scientist and a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

It was not peer - reviewed and was criticized by leading polar bear and Arctic ice scientists for containing «no new research» and drawing unfounded conclusions.

«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.

NASA's Tom Wagner hosts an informal discussion with ice scientists about the major changes seen in the Arctic during 2012 — shrinking sea ice, melting of the Greenland ice sheet, and more.

The team has developed an apparatus to meet the growing need for measuring ice as it changes in response to external forces, a process ice scientists call «deformational behaviors.»

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

GRACE has been a phenomenal success for climate science since its 2002 launch despite skepticism from ice scientists about how well the new technique would work to measure ice sheet masses.

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

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.

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

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.»

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.

Mark Serreze, one of the most prominent Arctic ice scientists in the world and a researcher at the U. S. National Snow and Ice Center, said last summer's melt proved «Arctic ice is in its death spiral,» and would be completely gone each summer by 2030.

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

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

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.

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

Zach Grenier as John Bjornson, Climate Scientist Alex Tavis as Frank, Fossil Fuel Lobbyist George Bartenieff as Uncle, Steward of the Estate Kit Flanagan as Jeanne Bjornson, Public Relations Specialis Di Zhu as Rebecca, Arctic Ice Scientist Tonia Jagodnik (not pictured) as Annie, A Wise Child Sniffley (as himself) as Biologically Challenged Frog

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

«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.

«There are very strong regional variations on how sea ice is changing,» said Nathan Kurtz, a sea ice scientist at Goddard.

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

Nearly a kilometer below the ice scientists have found a Yellowstone - like geothermal glow that could create life - rich subglacial lakes — and lubricate Antarctic ice loss

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.

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

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?

Bruce C. Elder, a sea ice scientist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, worked with Cornelissen and Haas last year on an international ice study called CryoVEx.

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).

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

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.

The atmospheric warmth probably contributed to this lowest maximum extent, with air temperatures up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit above average at the edges of the ice pack where sea ice is thin, said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«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.

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.

«It has been a record year so far for global temperatures, but the record high temperatures in the Arctic over the past six months have been even more extreme,» says Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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

The global trend in rising temperatures is outpaced by the regional warming in the Arctic, said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA Goddard.

You are an ice scientist; what are the tasks associated with your job?

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

«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.

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

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.