Giant wave from glacier breakage almost swamps boat
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By , on July 26th, 2012 One comment   Environmental Sciences   , , ,  

From gCaptain: Tourists get the full experience of the power of a calving glacier while on a boat trip off Ilulissat, Greenland. Fortunately, and somewhat amazingly, nobody was hurt. Scary part starts at 0:50.

Confronting Climate Contrarianism III: Data Realism and the Rabbit Hole
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By , on November 6th, 2011 10 comments   Climate Change   , , , , , , , , , ,  

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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Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea
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By , on March 22nd, 2010 Leave a comment   Expeditions, Organisms   , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  
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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Dispatches from Antarctica – Barilari Bay
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By , on January 28th, 2010 One comment   Environmental Sciences, Expeditions   , , , , ,  

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 – Barilari Bay

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TGIF: Iceberg sails past New Zealand (2006)
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By , on March 28th, 2008 2 comments   Pictures and Movies   , , , ,  

When was the last time your local news station sent out reporter by helicopter to land on an iceberg floating offshore? One of the intrepid chaps sums it up nicely,… “all my life I wanted to go to the Antarctic, now the Antarctic’s come to me.” . . . → Read More: TGIF: Iceberg sails past New Zealand (2006)

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