Sleigh Ride Bay-wide and a Warm Welcome to Croker Bay

Elizabeth Varner has been busy sending us clear low-resolution pictures to our primitive satellite email.  She has been doing her best to gain satellite connection and snapshots of areas just one step ahead of our path. Luckily for us, Elizabeth (our high school STEM intern and home-base intelligence), has been […]

Ocean Warming in Disko Bay

Matt and I made it to Aasiaat, Greenland. A small town of about 3,000 people. It sits at the edge of Western Greenland marking the southern corner of Disko bay. In that bay is a famous glacier called Jakobshavn Glacier. It is reported to  be melting at an incredible rate […]

Surf to Sail: Polar Scientific Exploration

Anne Arundel County Public School: Hey guys! I’m going to Canada. So what?, you might be thinking  as you read this.You might have summer adventures planned, too. Maybe you’re heading to a nearby beach, going up to the mountains or visiting family across the country. But I bet my suitcase […]

We are on fire!

We are on fire! I am just thrilled that we are finally back to 24 hour operations in the ice, mapping Inglefield glacial fjord’s seafloor and comparing the subsurface temperatures lurking in front of the glaciers. I am kind of the boat’s fortune teller. I wake up every 5 hours […]

We are only getting started!

There is more on my mind than just puppies and icebergs. Getting through Baffin Bay was a piece a cake except when I interpreted  the radar returns in heavy fog as scattered noise  and a wall of ice appeared  out of the mist. The marine debris trawl samples are always […]

It sounds like thunder

Exploratory research is a labor of love. If you had a choice to further science by developing the methods for an emerging study that directly monitors the influence of climate change, would you? We make it happen, aside of our limited time and resources before our big sea floor mapping […]

Final Education Blog of the 2015 Greenland Climate Project

Captain Matt and I are waiting out some stronger winds before heading back South to Sismut and finishing our work along the way. We are pretty comfortable on anchor hiding on the leeward side of Upernavik Island. Soon we will fuel up and get some food from a food market […]

Student Responses to Ships and Satellites Together Modeling World Ocean Salinity and Temperature

Student Responses to Ships and Satellites Together Modeling World Ocean Salinity and Temperature

Melting from Above and Below: The Effect of a Warming Ocean on the Greenland Ice Sheet

The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting from all sides. Not surprisingly, as air temperatures above it continue to warm, scientists have observed a steadily increasing amount of surface melt each year. What is less known is that where the ice sheet meets the ocean—in valleys and fjords referred to as […]

Exploration & Science Hand in Hand

Exploration and science often go hand in hand. Since the early days of the polar exploration, science including land and sea survey have almost always been on the agenda. It was totally normal for a crew to sail towards the poles, shoving ones way into totally unfamiliar frozen territory until […]