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Welcome to Greenland!

By Zoe Courville · July 15, 2009 ·

KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND-- Today Kaitlin Keegan, a first year PhD student at Dartmouth College, and my field assistant, and I flew from Scotia, NY, to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, our first stop on the way up to the Danish deep drilling camp, NEEM...

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Meet the JR!

By Doug LaVigne · July 12, 2009 ·

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ABOARD THE JOIDES RESOLUTION, EN ROUTE TO THE BERING SEA---- For today’s blog, I’d like to give you some information about the JOIDES Resolution. She (and forgive my use of the pronoun, but I can’t help but to personify her) was just upgraded in 2008...

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Leaving Port

By Doug LaVigne · July 10, 2009 ·

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VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- The sun was bright this morning. Most of the science party and many of the others on board came out to watch as the tugs pushed us out. We had a clear view of the Olympic Mountain Range and...

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The Melting Arctic Ice

By John Whiteman · July 7, 2009 ·

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LARAMIE, WYOMING-- While I am spending the summer back at the University of Wyoming, the Arctic summer is in full swing. Sea ice breakup has accelerated, and Arctic ice extent declined rapidly throughout June...

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To the Bering Sea

By Doug LaVigne · July 7, 2009 ·

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VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- Tuesday marks my first full day onboard the JOIDES Resolution. We are still not at sea, but it is a start...

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Science Aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer

By Diane Chakos · June 1, 2009 ·

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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA-- This video clip is from aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer (NBP) in March/April 2009 on the Southern Ocean. It shows how we collect water with the CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) Rosette, and a few experiments...

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Returning Home

By John Whiteman · May 26, 2009 ·

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LARAMIE, WYOMING-- During last week, the weather steadily turned from cold and overcast to warm and sunny. On the first day of good conditions we launched in the morning and captured a bear shortly thereafter...

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How Fat Is a Polar Bear?

By John Whiteman · May 15, 2009 ·

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DEADHORSE, ALASKA-- In the last dispatch, I wrote of polar bears getting by without food. In that situation – no food – the bears must be using body stores of fat for energy. Some bears can carry almost 50% of their body mass as fat...

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Pure as the Driven Snow

By Exploratorium Crew · May 8, 2009 ·

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA -- (By Lisa Strong-Aufhauser) Even the snow on top of the Greenland ice sheet is not as pure as you’d think. Dr. Joe McConnell from the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, studies the impurities...

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The End of Our Cruise

By Maria Vernet · May 1, 2009 ·

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PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE-- Late last night we arrived at Punta Arenas, Chile. This marks the end of our Iceberg 3 cruise. We have finished analyzing the samples, re-calibrating instruments and we are now ready to start packing...

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