Atmosphere | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

Terra Nova Bay or Bust

By John Cassano · September 16, 2009 ·

MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- It has been a slow, and sometimes frustrating, effort to get our first successful science flight of the project, but we did succeed last night... {Read More »}

First Flight

By John Cassano · September 8, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Our reason for being in Antarctica is to fly small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), known as Aerosondes, to make measurements of the atmosphere and ocean over the Terra Nova Bay polynya. Today we took a major step towards that goal when... {Read More »}

Looking for Ozone Destroyers

By Zoe Courville · August 5, 2008 ·

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SUMMIT CAMP, GREENLAND-- Drs. Jochen Stutz and Jennie Thomas from UCLA are up at Summit looking for halogens which could be contributing to the destruction of ozone, here at Summit and in other polar areas. The instrument they use for this is a large telescope... {Read More »}

Snow Oxidants

By Zoe Courville · July 29, 2008 ·

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SUMMIT CAMP, GREENLAND-- Dave Tanner from Georgia Tech works on a project measuring various chemical species in the snow and in the air at Summit. It is a long way from Georgia up at Summit, but luckily Dave enjoys his work... {Read More »}

Tethered Balloon Launch

By Zoe Courville · July 15, 2008 ·

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SUMMIT CAMP, GREENLAND-- In this video dispatch, meet Dr. Craig Clements from San Jose State University, a micrometereologist studying the atmosphere above Summit with an interesting-looking piece of equipment... {Read More »}

Meet an Atmospheric Chemist

By Zoe Courville · June 12, 2008 ·