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Greenland’s Glacier Lakes

By Mary Miller · July 14, 2008 · comments 1 comment
ILULISSAT, GREENLAND-- The Exploratorium crew has moved to Ilulissat, a beautiful town 250 kilometers above the Arctic Circle on the west coast of Greenland. This is a gathering place for glaciologists because it’s close to the one of the world’s fastest-moving and most productive glaciers, the Jakobshavn glacier... {Read More »}


Atop the Ice Sheet

By Mary Miller · July 11, 2008 · comments 2 comments
KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND-- As discussed in my last dispatch, Lisa and I got up to the Greenland Ice Sheet, tagging along with a group of glaciologists on a rock-hunting expedition. In this video dispatch, I give a quick update from atop the second largest ice sheet in the world... {Read More »}


Rock Hunting in Greenland

By Mary Miller · July 10, 2008 · comments 3 comments
KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND-- Every scientist going into the field has a plan, but things rarely go exactly as planned. Today was a perfect example. We drove… {Read More »}

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