Satellites And Submarines Give The Skinny On Sea Ice Thickness
Monday, September 7, 2009 - 00:35
in Earth & Climate
This summer, a group of scientists and students -- as well as a Canadian senator, a writer, and a filmmaker -- set out from Resolute Bay, Canada, on the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. They were headed through the Northwest Passage, but instead of opening shipping lanes in the ice, they had gathered to open up new lines of thinking on Arctic science.