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 »}

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 »}

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 out one of Kanger’s only roads to the edge of… {Read More »}

EN ROUTE TO KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND-- (Onboard an LC-130 from Stratton National Air Guard Base) For scientists doing research in Greenland, and those of us lucky enough to tag along with them, actually getting to the… {Read More »}

Understanding how large ice sheets in the Antarctic and Arctic behave in a warming world is an important but relatively unknown factor that may dramatically affect sea level and other consequences of climate change. {Read More »}

In our live webcast at the Exploratorium last weekend (to watch click here) we aired some as-of-yet-unseen video dispatches I made at Siple Dome, Antarctica. During the webcast we also mentioned a couple of video… {Read More »}

Slawec and I are both back in Santa Cruz now, and will be doing a live webcast at the Exploratorium tomorrow! In the meantime, I'd like to post some more pictures and videos from our… {Read More »}

The members of our team are now either home or still in the process of making their way there. Looking back at our time in the field here in Antarctica, I want to share some… {Read More »}

In this audio dispatch I describe our first (and hopefully last!) encounter with a crevasse. … {Read More »}

Any time we travel to a new area, we take a series of precautions to avoid crevasses. First, we look at high-resolution radar and visible light satellite images that show many of the crevasses and… {Read More »}