Alek Petty, a sea ice scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is currently making his way to the northern coast of Canada (a small town called Kugluktuk) to embark on the 2016 Joint Ocean Ice Study (JOIS) – a research expedition around the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre.
Ryan Walker and Christine Dow will be spending more than a month in Antarctica to study the response of the Nansen Ice Shelf to ocean tides and will be blogging from the field.
Now in its fourth year, IceBridge's return to the Antarctic comes almost a year after the discovery of a large rift in the continent's Pine Island Glacier. Keep up with the researchers at the IceBridge blog!
To mark Earth Day 2012, we are inviting you to create your own compelling video vision of NASA's exploration of Earth. You could be selected to view the launch of an upcoming Earth science mission in person! Deadline is May 31, 2012.