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Science Talk

It's Melting: Science on Ice

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Glaciologist Elizabeth Case of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University’s Earth Institute takes us out near Juneau, Alaska, to study and live on the shifting ice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2019. I'm Steve Murski, and while much of the lower 48 is sweltering,

0:41.7

things are somewhat cooler in Alaska. Not as cool as they should be. But anyway, back in January,

0:48.1

we brought you part one of a report from the ice fields near Juno. Part two is coming right up,

0:53.3

but I'm going to play part one again first for anyone who missed it

0:56.5

or just wants to get a refresher.

0:58.4

And the beauty of podcasts is, if you want to jump ahead to part 2, just skip the next 10 minutes.

1:06.5

Elizabeth Case is a graduate student studying glaciology at the Lamont-Dowardy Earth Observatory,

1:12.6

part of Columbia University's Earth Institute. In the summer of 2018, she headed out onto the

1:18.5

ice fields near Juno, along with her mentor, Columbia Earth scientist Johnny Kingslake,

1:24.2

as part of the Juno Icefield Research Program, or JIRP.

1:28.3

She brought her trusty recorder and sent back audio.

1:31.5

You'll hear her mention Seth Campbell.

1:33.5

He's at the University of Maine and is the director of JIRP.

1:37.2

She also brings up Bradley Markle, who's a postdoc at Caltech,

1:40.9

and Wilson Clayton, formerly an environmental engineer and visiting faculty member at

1:46.1

Jerp. Here's part one of her story of doing science on the ice, on the ice. The

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