Sentences with phrase «lake ice for»

Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Darrin Freshwater Institute in Bolton Landing have been studying the impact of water temperate and lake ice for several years, said Sandra Nierzicki - Bauer, executive director.

Not exact matches

Lake Placid, New York is probably best known for playing host to the U.S. hockey team's «Miracle on Ice» win over the heavily favored Russians.

Even weather control is not as incredible as it sounds, for there is a delicate energy balance which can be changed by thin films on lakes and ice fields, or by air - borne particles.

It seems amazing now but for centuries the only way people living in hot climates could cool their drinks was to have first gathered ice and snow from mountain tops and frozen rivers and lakes.

I don't have a browned butter cookie in my collection (I do have an amazing browned butter icing recipe, but that'll have to wait for another post), so I turned to my favorite cookie recipe resource, Land O Lakes.

I'm eager for all that summer goodness; farmer's markets, fresh products, ice cream, lazy days spent at our summer cottage by the lake, weddings, berry picking trips, long summer nights... I'm ready for you, summer!

The team practices at the Lake Vue Ice Palace, accent on the Ice, a facility more suited for hanging meat than working out for a Major Indoor Soccer League game.

I remember trading in my ice skates every year for a new pair, waiting to see if the lake froze over and we'd actually be able to skate outside and not just in the indoor rink, with its watery hot chocolate.

Over dinner with Julie and Angela Ruggiero, who was keeping a journal of her journey to Salt Lake for MomsTEAM at the time, I got to know Julie; about her work ethic, interesting upbringing, supportive family (especially her amazing mom), and her passion for ice hockey.

The Ridgeland Common Dog Park Plus, a field open on weekends for dogs at 415 Lake St., will close permanently Aug. 4 as part of a $ 22.8 million renovation at the facility, which also includes building an expanded indoor ice rink and improvements to the swimming pool.

The towns offer other attractions, such as the Cantigny Museums and Gardens, in Wheaton, a vivid tribute to veterans (the museums are the official repository for the 1st Division of the Army) surrounded by lush gardens; and the picturesque, 10 - acre Lake Ellyn in Glen Ellyn, which residents use for fishing and ice skating.

Once the ice is tested, the lake is open for skating but it is unsupervised, according to Dave Markworth, director of parks and recreation for Des Plaines.

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A miles - wide ice floe broke away Saturday from Lake Erie's shoreline, trapping more than 130 fishermen, some for as long as four hours.

The artificial Vassar Lake lies midway down the Fonteyn Kill and was once used for ice skating and boating.

Now the team is packing up their tools and mobile labs so that they can be shipped out to the ice sheet for the real deal: Boring through a half - mile of ice covering Lake Whillans.

Heavier models tend to have larger screens and more features but are better for installing on a motorboat than toting with you across the ice or out to a hidden lake.

A team drills thousands of feet into the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to reach a lake buried for millennia.

They make the journey to Baikal because the lake's combination of storm - free waters, and — in the winter — a 1 - metre - thick ice platform, provide ideal conditions for studying the icy crystals below.

Seismological observations may not be needed at Yellowstone Lake, but could be useful for monitoring more remote lakes for long - term changes to ice cover duration.

Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice.

More than half a kilometre beneath the Devon Ice Cap, scientists discovered two lakes whose extreme saltiness could make them a habitat for microbes — an environment that might also exist on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

«Scientists discover first super salty subglacial lakes in Canadian Arctic: Super salty water beneath ice could serve as a terrestrial analogue for a habitat for life on other planets.»

Though all subglacial lakes are good analogues for life beyond Earth, the hypersaline nature of the Devon lakes makes them particularly tantalizing analogues for ice - covered moons in our solar system.

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

His Russian scientific team had finally accomplished its elusive goal: retrieving the purest sample yet from Lake Vostok, an Antarctic body of water that has likely been locked beneath thousands of feet of ice for up to 15 million years.

This is especially true for lakes at high latitudes that are covered in ice each winter but may see less ice as temperatures rise.

For example, thinner lake ice may help fish overwintering, or it may help the oil industry since they need lake water to build winter ice roads.

The way in which water flows beneath the ice sheet strongly influences the speed of ice flow, so the existence of other lakes will have implications for the future of the ice sheet.

For instance, researchers may have a limited time to survey coastal archaeological sites threatened by erosion, to sample melting ice sheets holding clues to past climates, and to document so - called thermokarst lakes, which are formed by meltwater from permafrost.

Also in the mid-1990s, another group of scientists proposed the now widely accepted mechanism for how lakes can form under glaciers: Heat radiating from Earth's interior is trapped under the thick, insulating ice sheet, and pressure from the weight of all the ice above it lowers the melting point of the ice at the bottom.

And in the lake bed sediments, the team will search for records of the poorly understood history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, potentially revealing how the mighty glacier has waxed and waned over time.

Exploring subglacial lakes could help answer many important questions: whether, for example, global warming might accelerate as Antarctica's ice recedes.

Lake Whillans had likely not seen the light of day for hundreds of thousands of years, but Tulacyzk and the others who landed that day intended to see what was under the ice.

Global freshwater resources water projects at DTU: 68.9 per cent is accounted for by glacial ice, 30.8 per cent by groundwater and 0.3 per cent by lakes and rivers.

By taking ice samples for the last five winters and analyzing for the chlorophyll produced by algae and photosynthetic bacteria, Twiss and his team have determined that from November to April the Lake experiences great primary productivity, more so than in spring or summer.

These lakes could also be hotbeds for life, since molecules embedded in surface ice could easily get dumped into the water when the ice collapses.

Stepping onto an inch - and - a-half thick piece of lake ice — much less doing laps on it — is a no - go for most people.

The driver seemed to be contemplating going around them to look for thick ice that would let us reach our destination, an underwater observatory operating in one of the deepest parts of the lake.

Calling for carbon budgets She said that climate change could intensify the sunlight process, if lakes and coastal waters become ice - free earlier in the season with ongoing warming.

While researchers quickly linked the breakup to lakes of meltwater that had accumulated on the so - called Larsen B ice shelf's upper surface and then wedged apart deep crevasses, they hadn't come up with a convincing explanation for what triggered the collapse.

She embedded time - lapse video cameras in the scree - covered ice peaks, which filmed interior glacial lakes every hour for two weeks.

«At Kima'Kho, we were able to map a passage zone in pyroclastic deposits left by the earliest explosive phase of eruption, allowing for more accurate forensic recovery of paleo - lake levels through time and better estimates of paleo - ice thicknesses,» says UBC volcanologist James K Russell, lead author on the paper published this week in Nature Communications.

«If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has been under ice for a very long time, so it must have evolved in isolation.

Microbes have been discovered on Earth wherever anyone has looked for them, from the boiling waters of Yellowstone's hot springs in Wyoming to the depths of cold, dark Antarctic lakes under 800 metres of ice.

Two super-salty lakes discovered under ice in the Canadian Arctic could help scientists search for life on other worlds.

Researchers with the British Antarctic Survey have been planning for 16 years to drill a borehole into the ice atop this subglacial lake, a hole that will freeze back over within 24 hours.

The new work adds to the diversity of types of wet environments for which evidence exists on Mars, including rivers, lakes, deltas, seas, hot springs, groundwater, and volcanic eruptions beneath ice.

Chuck Booth wrote: «The existence of lakes beneath Antarctic ice is nothing new — this has been known for decades... What is new, and newsworthy, is that the extensive system of liquid water under the ice may provide a better understanding of ice sheet dynamics»

A team of scientists led by Dr. Martin Sharp, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta, discovered the hypersaline lakes while looking for subglacial continents in the Devon Ice Cap.