Tag: Antarctica

  • Nation & World

    Antarctic Ice Sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says

    The sea level in a warming world will be greater than anticipated, according to a new study from Harvard researchers.

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    Iceberg.
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    Evidence of the interconnectedness of global climate

    Ice sheets thousands of kilometers apart influence each other through sea level changes.

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    Floating iceberg.
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    Life on the ice

    Harvard researchers describe life in the South Pole.

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    Auroras as seen from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station..
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    William Cromie, Gazette science writer, dies at 84

    William J. Cromie, a longtime Harvard Gazette science writer who retired in 2007 after 18 years of writing about the latest scientific findings out of Harvard laboratories and field research, has died at his home in Somerville, Mass., at age 84.

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    Destination space

    Jessica Meir, an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, is the latest member of the Harvard community given a chance to head to space, joining moon-walkers and Hubble Space Telescope repairmen as she trains to become a NASA astronaut.

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    Popsicle Earth

    A recently published paper says that during the last glacial maximum, more ice than previously thought covered the globe.

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    Straight to the source

    As described in an April 23 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), graduate students Eric Morrow and Carling Hay demonstrate the use of a statistical tool called a Kalman smoother to identify “sea level fingerprints” — telltale variations in sea level rise — in a synthetic data set. Using those…

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    Researchers study glaciers on Earth’s coldest desert

    It’s December, and undergraduate Jenny Middleton bundles up to face the cold. While all across campus, students, and faculty don their winter gear, Middleton is not preparing for the New England winter; she is preparing for an expedition through the Earth’s coldest desert: the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica.

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    Arctic ice is thinning steadily

    There was a polar bear sighting at Harvard last week. At Pforzheimer House on Thursday (Oct. 2), global warming expert James J. McCarthy delivered a crisp summary of how fast ice is melting in the Arctic — and why we should care. The audience of 80 took in his companion slide show, including images of…

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