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Ice Islands, Oil Fields, and Sea Level
A piece of ice, the size of four Manhattans, is heading our way. It broke free from northern Greenland last summer and has become home to seals and sea life off Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada. Ocean...
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New Ice Island Forming at Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
A new ice island is about to form as spring and summer arrive in Antarctica. NASA researchers working on Pine Island Glacier (PIG) as part of the IceBridge Mission discovered a 30 km wide rift some 25...
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Greenland’s Glaciers, Science, Sea-Level, and Teachers
Science Magazine hit climate change hard today. They cover how Greenland’s glaciers and ice sheets change as they interact with the ocean and contribute to sea-level rise feature in 3 related stories....
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Greenland’s Warming, Melting, and Sliding to Sea
Greenland is warming, Greenland’s warming is melting its ice, and Greenland melting ice is raising global sea level. All true, but it all has happened before during the last 100 years or so. Our...
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Oceanography of Petermann Fjord and Glacier Melting
Trudy Wohlleben just send a group of scientists in Denmark, England, Canada, and the US the latest RADARSAT image of the ice island that formed in Petermann Glacier earlier this week. RadarSat Image of...
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Nares Strait 2012: Tide Gauge Recovered after 9 Years
Andreas Muenchow, Aug.-8, 2012, off Cape Baird In 2003 we deployed a tide gauge that was recovered today after attempts in 3 different years to do so failed. Discovery Harbor near Fort Conger was the...
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Rising Seas, Storms, and Flooding
Ocean waters are rising and flooding inland waters in Delaware and elsewhere. Some of this is perfectly regular and normal such as the up and down of the tides. Some of it is irregular and normal such...
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Storm Surges, Global Warming, and Delaware Beaches
ADDENDUM (Nov.-7, 2012): Time lapse video from Delaware Sea Grant. Rising seas and flood waters cause most of the damage during storms such as Sandy did last week. Tides, waves, and storms all...
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Canyon below Ice at Petermann Gletscher
The Grand Canyon of Arizona stands tall in the mind as the Colorado River carved itself into 6000 feet of rock. A similar canyon has been discovered in northern Greenland near Petermann Gletscher. The...
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Ruins of Fort Conger in the High Arctic
Retreating from Fort Conger, the U.S. Army lost 68% of its men to death by starvation and drowning. They were delivered to the northern shores of Ellesmere Island within sight of northern Greenland by...
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A Short Summary of Nares Strait Physics
The Arctic Ocean is a puddle of water covered by ice that melts, moves, and freezes. Grand and majestic rivers of Siberia and America discharge into the puddle and make it fresher than Atlantic Ocean...
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Petermann Glacier Tidal Heaving
Some glaciers float on the ocean around Antarctica and Greenland. Petermann Gletscher in North Greenland is one of these. It spawned massive Manhattan-sized ice islands in 2010 and 2012. Could tides...
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