http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/17/strange-bedfellows-in-the-climate-change-saga-the-quest-for-the-arctic-wolf/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/17/strange-bedfellows-in-the-climate-change-saga-the-quest-for-the-arctic-wolf/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:16 +0000 EICES Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=37381 When you travel northbound on Alaska’s famous Dalton Highway heading toward the Arctic Sea, the northern edge of the world, you carry a radio to communicate with the enormous rigs that roar along the road, the giant trucks made famous by the History Channel’s Ice Road Truckers. Radio messages between truckers and non-truckers are simple and polite. They let each other know when it’s safe to pass, if a wide load is coming your way, or if the conditions ahead are dangerous or treacherous – snow drifts, slush flows, avalanches, washouts and the like.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/17/strange-bedfellows-in-the-climate-change-saga-the-quest-for-the-arctic-wolf/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/11/400-ppm-world-part-1-large-changes-still-to-come/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/11/400-ppm-world-part-1-large-changes-still-to-come/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:32:21 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=37224 Why should society care that CO2 is now as high as 400 ppm? The reasons are multiple, but all trace back to the relationship between CO2 and temperature. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/11/400-ppm-world-part-1-large-changes-still-to-come/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/27/science-creativity-and-isopods/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/27/science-creativity-and-isopods/#comments Mon, 27 May 2013 07:12:11 +0000 Rebecca Fowler http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36994 It’s near midnight and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory researchers Andy Juhl and Craig Aumack, and Arizona State’s Kyle Kinzler are gathered around a table in their lab at the Barrow Arctic Research Consortium discussing the best way to catch an isopod. When scientists do fieldwork, they enter into it with specific questions and science goals in [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/27/science-creativity-and-isopods/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/23/ctene-sensations-of-the-arctic-ocean/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/23/ctene-sensations-of-the-arctic-ocean/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 05:40:49 +0000 Rebecca Fowler http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36929 One of the goals of Andy Juhl’s and Craig Aumack’s Arctic research is to determine the role of ice algae as a source of nutrition for food webs existing in the water column and at the bottom of the Arctic ocean. During their fieldwork these Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists are deploying a plankton net, a [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/23/ctene-sensations-of-the-arctic-ocean/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/20/collecting-core-data-about-arctic-ecosystems/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/20/collecting-core-data-about-arctic-ecosystems/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:53:40 +0000 Rebecca Fowler http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36868 Our team spent most of Friday on the Arctic sea ice, drilling and sampling ice cores at our main field site. For each core collected, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists Andy Juhl and Craig Aumack take a number of different physical, chemical and biological measurements that characterize the ice and the organisms living inside it. Some [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/20/collecting-core-data-about-arctic-ecosystems/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/06/how-the-warming-arctic-affects-us-all/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/06/how-the-warming-arctic-affects-us-all/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:47:02 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=32796 The Arctic may seem remote, but the overall rate of global warming, our climate and weather, sea levels, and many ecosystems and species will be affected by the warming that is occurring there. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/06/how-the-warming-arctic-affects-us-all/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/08/arctic-archipelago-ground-zero-for-climate-change/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/08/arctic-archipelago-ground-zero-for-climate-change/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:53:04 +0000 Brian Kateman http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31660 Summer temperatures on the archipelago of Svalbard, 400 miles north of Norway, are now higher than at any other period in the last 1,800 years, according to a new study in the journal Geology.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/08/arctic-archipelago-ground-zero-for-climate-change/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/08/17/polar-climate-change-education-partnership-receives-5-6-million-grant/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/08/17/polar-climate-change-education-partnership-receives-5-6-million-grant/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:52:49 +0000 Theresa E. Hernandez http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=29574 The Columbia Climate Center led PoLAR Climate Change Education Partnership receives a $5.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), one of six awards under the Climate Change Education Partnership-Phase II program.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/08/17/polar-climate-change-education-partnership-receives-5-6-million-grant/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/07/03/getting-there-0-5fun/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/07/03/getting-there-0-5fun/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:31:12 +0000 Jonathan Nichols http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=28501 Hello from the land of the midnight sun! We have just arrived by way of the famous Dalton Highway at Toolik Field Station, a Long Term Ecological Research site of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. We pulled up to the station just in time for dinner, a quick trip to the field station’s wood-fired sauna, and a dunk in Toolik Lake to wash off the dust of the road. Now it’s time to try and block out enough sun to get some shut-eye before a long day of coring tomorrow. Check out some pictures from our 360-mile drive after the jump.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/07/03/getting-there-0-5fun/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/24/under-arctic-ice-watch-the-video/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/24/under-arctic-ice-watch-the-video/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 15:29:23 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=27255 The video depicts the activities of the LDEO Switchyard field team, which deploys annually and uses ski-equipped aircraft to reach a series of sample sites between the North Pole and Ellesmere Island in Canada. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/24/under-arctic-ice-watch-the-video/feed/ 0