Sentences with word «icescape»

From expeditioners perishing in an Antarctic icescape to World War II fighter planes exploding over Britain, dire situations can lead to crucial medical advances.
Antarctica is a land like no other, a place of ethereal icescapes and breathtaking scenery; narrow waterways, glaciers, icebergs, rugged mountains and abundant wildlife
The constellations of Orion, Taurus, and the Pleiades illuminate an ethereal icescape in Nagano, Japan (winner of the «Earth and Space» category).
The best scientific payoffs require venturing to the harshest environments, where blistering volcanoes or subarctic icescapes could instantly transform multimillion - dollar machines into scrap metal.
Admire the towering glaciers, penguin colonies and breathtaking icescape...
Just as the last embankments of winter snow dissipated into rivulets in the corners of Brown University's campus, five mural - sized photographs of polar icescapes materialized on its prominent building facades.
But this scene is a mess: Cryoconite cones have coalesced into cruddy puddles and basins, while a robust river, a few meters across, gushes across the dirty icescape.
By the time we make our second trip to Lake Mercer, the icescape feels as familiar to me as the hills of Northern California.
In 2010, an iceberg about the size of Rhode Island collided with Antarctica's Mertz Glacier Tongue, carving out a more - than -1,000-square-mile piece and reshaping the icescape of the George V / Adelie Land Coast, where the AABW observed in this study is thought to form.
The project, called Impacts of Climate Change on the Eco-Systems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment, or ICESCAPE, aims to find out how warming temperatures are affecting the biochemistry and ecology of the Arctic seas.
It's terrific to be able to view the whole of Matthew Barney's Cremaster series in one gallery, that Ring Cycle of phantasmagorical films shot on 35 mm in the blinding white salt flats of Utah, in Canada, Japan and the icescapes of Alaska, with its outlandish cast of performers including Richard Serra, Björk and Norman Mailer.
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the midst of their ICESCAPE mission, retrieves supplies for some mid-mission fixes dropped by parachute from a C - 130 in the Arctic Ocean in this July 12, 2011 NASA handout photo.
The project, called Impacts of Climate Change on the Eco-Systems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment, or ICESCAPE, aims to find out how warming temperatures are affecting the biochemistry and ecology of the Arctic seas.
But they also felt a sense of wonder at the transformation of the icescape, McQuaid says.
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