Earth and Space Sciences‘ Kristin Poinar, a graduate student studying glaciology, will join director Jeff Orlowski following two screenings of the movie “Chasing Ice” to talk about the science behind melting glaciers. Check out the film, and check out Kristin’s work too! Read more here.
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Check out this astounding time-lapse video, made of hundreds of photographs over the past 8 years, of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier as it rapidly loses its mass to the ocean. The world’s glaciers and ice caps — excluding those in Greenland and Antarctica — lost 148 gigatonnes per year between January 2003 and December 2010. Want to know more? Read more here. The coldest deep ocean water that flows around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean has been mysteriously disappearing at a high rate over the last few decades, scientists have found. Sarah Purkey, graduate student in oceanography and lead author of the study, is quoted. Read more here. Professor Norbert Untersteiner – Department of Atmospheric Sciences in UW’s College of the Environment – passed away earlier this month; he was 86. Read about his remarkable life and legacy – from his childhood in Austria to his adventures and work in the Arctic – in this Seattle Times piece. Next weekend you and your kids can explore the icy oceans, mysterious creatures and crazy machines of polar research. Check out the Applied Physics Lab-sponsored Polar Science Weekend on March 1-4, being held at the Pacific Science Center! With unusual weather in Europe and the Americas, low Arctic ice, droughts in Africa and Latin America, 2012 picks up where 2011 left off. Research from the Polar Science Center is cited. Read more here.
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Newly published research from College researchers Qinghua Ding, Eric Steig, David Battisti, and Marcel Küttel shows how warmer-than-usual sea-surface temperatures, especially in the central tropics, lead to changes in atmospheric circulation that influence conditions near the Antarctic coast line. Anomalously warm waters set up westerly winds that push surface water away from glaciers lining the Amundsen Sea and allow warmer deep water to rise to the surface under the edges of the glaciers. Read the UW News story 
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