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Sea Ice in the Bellingshausen Sea
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Published October 4, 2015
A spectacular view of sea ice was captured during an Operation IceBridge flight in 2014; the mission surveyed ice at both poles again in 2015, this time simultaneously.
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Partial Opening of the Northwest Passage
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Published September 13, 2015
The southern route is open, while the northern route still has some lingering ice in Parry Channel.
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Alaska’s Biggest (Ice) Losers are Inland
Published July 7, 2015
Glaciers in a region of Alaska are losing about 75 billion tons of ice per year, but not all glaciers contribute equally.
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Airborne Instruments Look for Changes in the Delta
Published June 25, 2015
Plane-mounted radar and other instruments are studying the shrinking and growing wetlands along the Gulf Coast.
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Laser-like Focus on Arctic Sea Ice
Published April 5, 2015
In twilight conditions, green lasers that measure polar ice are easily visible with the naked eye.
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What Lies Below
Published December 23, 2014
The history of the South Pole's atmosphere is locked up in layers of ice.
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New Insight from Old Snapshots of Greenland
Published December 16, 2014
Historic photographs show glacial retreat since the early 1900s.
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Finding a Constellation with a Laser
Published November 16, 2014
Operation IceBridge spotted a piece of U.S. history and measured it with a lidar instrument.
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