Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists » Willy Field http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:40:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Mapping East Antarctica’s Uncharted Territory http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/mapping-east-antarcticas-uncharted-territory/ http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/mapping-east-antarcticas-uncharted-territory/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:55:10 +0000 Mary Miller http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=1545 WILLIAMS FIELD, NEAR MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA– East Antarctica contains nearly all the world’s supply of fresh water and could contribute hundreds of feet of sea level rise, yet little is known about the stability of this vast ice sheet. In our interview with Jack Holt of the University of Texas at Austin, we learn about a project to chart a glacier in East Antarctica that scientists believe is losing mass. (Video by Lisa Strong-Aufhauser.)



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]]> http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/mapping-east-antarcticas-uncharted-territory/feed/ 3 An Airport Made of Ice http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/an-airport-made-of-ice/ http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/an-airport-made-of-ice/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:29:14 +0000 Kelly Carroll http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=1382 MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA– Our project takes us all over the continent to install equipment but to get there we have to leave from Williams Field, an airport near McMurdo Station. Willy Field has a runway equipped to handle the largest aircraft that fly into Antarctica. However, this runway is different, there’s no pavement here–this runway is made of ice.

POLENET’s Stephanie Konfal gives us a look at Willy Field.



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