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Slawek Tulaczyk focuses on the critical role that ice sheets play in climate and sea-level change. A native of Poland, he's a professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and loves the intellectual and physical challenges of working in remote field sites in Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica. Slawek and his student Nadine Krupinski will send dispatches from their field camp in early December.

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Seeing Lake Mercer through the Ice

By Slawek Tulaczyk • December 9th, 2007
In this audio dispatch I describe a major achievement in our project: using radar technology to see Lake Mercer beneath the ice, gathering important data on the lake, and setting up instruments that will enable continued data collection after we leave Antarctica. …
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Measuring the Lakes beneath the Ice

By Slawek Tulaczyk • December 6th, 2007
In this audio dispatch, I describe the work we have been doing since finally reaching our field site. …
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Mission from Siple Dome

By Slawek Tulaczyk • December 6th, 2007
In this audio dispatch, I describe how we were grounded at the Siple Dome airstrip on our way to our field site. As the weather would not permit us to continue for at least three days, we decided to use the time to go visit…
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Slawek Tulaczyk Bio

By Slawek Tulaczyk • November 6th, 2007
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