QUICK FACTS ON ICEBERGS - THEY ARE MELTING - FROM NATIONAL SNOW AND ICE DATA CENTER

NSIDC - ICEBERGS and GLACIERS - ICE! 

Excerpt: The International Ice Patrol uses airplanes and radars to track icebergs that float into major shipping lanes.  The U.S. National Ice Center uses satellite date rto monitor icebergs near Antarctia...

WINTER ANIMALS ON ICE

Which one is the WALRUS?

 

MCMURDO OCEANOGRAPHIC OBSERVATORY - ANTARCTICA LIVE UNDERWATER SOUNDS

DISCOVER MAGAZINE - MCMURDO GET'S MAJOR OVERHAUL by Roni Dengler

A hundred or so buildings will be demolished and six new buildings will be built.  This article shows renderings of the buildings to be built.

VERY SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE on ARTIC MELTING and SEA LEVEL CHANGE

WOODS HOLE OCEAN : ARTIC MELTING and SEA LEVEL CHANGE

This one is very scientific but you can read it...

EXCERPT: Sea level is a natural integral indicator of climate variability. It reflects changes in practically all dynamic and thermodynamic processes of terrestrial, oceanic, atmospheric, and cryospheric origin. The use of estimates of sea level rise as an indicator of climate change therefore incurs the difficulty that the inferred sea level change is the net result of many individual effects of environmental forcing. Since some of these effects may offset others, the cause of the sea level response to climate change remains somewhat uncertain. This project is focused on an attempt to provide first order answers to two questions, namely:

1) What is the rate of sea level change in the Arctic Ocean? and 2) What is the role of each of the individual contributing factors to observed Arctic Ocean sea level change? 

WIRED SCIENCE reports on MASSIVE ICE BREAK OFF GREENLAND

"100-square-mile block of ice 600 feet thick has calved off one of the largest ocean-bordering glaciers in Greenland. The Arctic hasn’t lost a chunk of ice that large since 1962." You can link to the whole article with a dramatic illustration by clicking on the title above!