The icy colder finger of death
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I just can’t wait until the BBC series Frozen Planet airs here in the states. Take this clip for example, which the BBC released today. It shows a “brinicle”, which is a sort of underwater icicle that forms under sea ice in winter. As the surface ice freezes, it preferentially takes up fresh water, leaving . . . → Read More: The icy colder finger of death

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Confronting Climate Contrarianism III: Data Realism and the Rabbit Hole
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A new addition to my Confronting Climate Contrarianism series, much too long in waiting. Found this interesting animated gif on Andre Nantel’s G+ stream. He found it with no attribution on Reddit (UPDATE: graph from an excellent post on Skeptical Science). Gernot commented on that stream with a link to a Sydney Morning Herald piece . . . → Read More: Confronting Climate Contrarianism III: Data Realism and the Rabbit Hole

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Angels in Antarctica
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“Don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t blink.” – The Doctor The Weeping Angels are the monster of the week in one of my very favorite Doctor Who episodes. They look like saccharine angel statues…until they strike. The Weeping Angels could very well have been modeled . . . → Read More: Angels in Antarctica

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Cruise ship encounters heavy seas in Drake Passage
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gCaptain brought my attention to cruise ship rather unfortunate encounter with the Drake Passage.  For those who don’t know, the Drake Passage is the hell hole between the tip of South America and the Antarctica Peninsula infamous for the roughest seas in the world.  Go ahead type “roughest seas in the world” into Google, . . . → Read More: Cruise ship encounters heavy seas in Drake Passage

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Antarctica – Below Zero
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Antarctica – Below Zero from Alex.Be. on Vimeo. Hat tip to Chris Mah. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Antarctica – Below Zero from Alex.Be. on Vimeo. Hat tip to Chris Mah. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet

Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea
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Living vesicomyid clams 100 kilometers from the former edge of the Larsen B Ice Shelf as initially seen in 2005 (top), and images of what may be the same clam bed now dead in 2007.  Although the image quality is poor, the trails in the 2005 image are characteristic of those made by living vesicomyids.  Upper image is from Domack et al. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union 86, 269-276 (2005).  Lower image is from Niemann et al. (2009)

David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea

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Amphipod Stops to Ask NASA for Directions
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A pretty cool little discovery! Amphipod hanging out down below 600 feet of ice in an isolated Antarctic basin. Is it lost?? What are you doing there amphipod!? Of course this begs the question of where the heck is it getting its food from? Vents under the ice? Plesiosaur falls from a lost world? . . . → Read More: Amphipod Stops to Ask NASA for Directions

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Dispatches from Antarctica – Sampling the Inverted Benthos
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David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea News . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – Sampling the Inverted Benthos

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Dispatches from Antarctica – First Month’s Progress
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David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea News . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – First Month’s Progress

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Dispatches from Antarctica – Rothera
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David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea News . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – Rothera

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