Blogs / Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

View all »

Latest posts

  1. Why Paleoclimate?

    http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches-new/?p=155

    Here’s an example of something that inspires me to try to reconstruct past climate.…

    197 days ago

  2. Harbringer of Eternal Daylight

    http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches-new/?p=154

    FAIRBANKS, ALASKA– The snow only just melted in interior Alaska last week. Signs of spring abound here: the sky is light for almost twenty hours a day, leaf buds are nearly bursting on the trees in the endless boreal forest, and an array of birds migrate north in the morning sky. …

    197 days ago

  3. Arctic Winter Gives Way to Spring

    http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches-new/?p=148

    BARROW, ALASKA– The seemingly endless circumnavigation of the earth around the sun has come to that point in the journey again where the Arctic region breaks out of the cold, dark winter into spring’s light and warmth. Because of climate change, spring comes earlier than in the past and fall lingers later into the year. …

    197 days ago