Let's Talk Science: Mapping
Welcome to our blog series, “Let’s Talk Science,” where we break down the science behind our team’s work. Over the past couple weeks,...
Let's Talk Science: Ice Streams
Welcome to our blog series, “Let’s Talk Science,” where we break down the science behind our team’s work. Last week, we talked about...
Let's Talk Science: Nunataks
Welcome to our blog series, “Let’s Talk Science,” where we break down the science behind our team’s work. Last week, we talked about how...
Let's Talk Science: Mapping and Verification
In our last article, we began explaining how remote sensing helps us with our mapping, the first “M” of our acronym. We use this to begin...
Let's Talk Science: What is "remote sensing?"
Remote sensing uses satellites to help us see a big chunk of land from a bird’s-eye-view. When the sun shines on the land, radiation bounces
Mapping and Sampling in Milorgfjella's Rugged Beauty
On January 21st we headed out for our first major fieldwork in Milorgfjella (pronounced "Mee-lorg-feeyella") about 240 km SSE of the...
Nunataks as dipsticks
Antarctica is covered by a vast ice sheet (Picture 1). The colours of the ice sheet indicate thickness, with blues showing thinner ice...
