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Notes from the Field

We are currently at the first station to be occupied by the fourth and final NAAMES field campaign. It is a bittersweet experience both scientifically and personally. This station represents the final ...
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Notes from the Field

I always knew that one day I wanted to study the ocean, even though I grew up just north of Pittsburgh and had never seen the ocean. After graduating high school, I attended the College of Charleston ...
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Notes from the Field

To improve our understanding of how large stores of soil carbon and Arctic vegetation are responding to climate change, a team of scientists participating in the NASA Arctic Boreal Vulnerability ...
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Notes from the Field

Most of the time, the influence of land (and pollution that people generate) can only be seen a few miles from shore. When flying south into Alaska from the Arctic ocean, we saw the tell-tale ...
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Return of Tulare Lake

Tulare Lake, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. The lake would grow every winter as rainfall and snowmelt from the nearby Sierra ...
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Comments on: September Puzzler

This is the Lake Retba, Lac Rose or Pink Lake in Senegal, close to Dakar. It is interesting due to the special pink color of the lake, given by salty algae Dunaliella.
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Notes from the Field

As astronomers, the work we do is literally detached from the world. To be clear, there are material benefits – if you have a phone with a camera on it, the detector technology was developed ...
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Notes from the Field

The Central Observatory of MOSAiC, with a few prominent landmarks noted. This photo was taken while the Kapitan Dranitsyn was stationed nearby. Credit: Steven Fons Floe | flō | n. A sheet of floating ...
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Notes from the Field

Clement Delcourt, Rebecca Scholten and Sander Veraverbeke (from left to right, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) after a day of sampling in an area that burned with high severity. If only I could collect ...
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Notes from the Field

This winter, our field team of four completed the two-week 88S Traverse in Antarctica in an effort to provide the best means of assessing NASA’s ICESat-2. When you show folks pictures from the trip, ...
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Earth Matters

The Grand Canyon in northern Arizona has a long history. Between 5-6 million years ago, the Colorado River started carving through a high, flat plateau. About 12,000 years ago, people in the vicinity ...
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Notes from the Field

On our second day the sun was shining brightly through only a few clouds, promising warmer and drier conditions for the day. We were joined by scientists from American University who were flying ...