by Patrick Lynch / KEFLAVIK, ICELAND / On Monday morning, the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) team left the chill of Keflavik (32 degrees Fahrenheit but with a relentless, stinging wind) for the more ruthless cold of -8 degrees Fahrenheit in Thule, Greenland. Before landing, the seven-person team will fly over coastline near Thule today to …
by Patrick Lynch / KEFLAVIK, ICELAND / Here's the second part of our Q&A with Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) principal investigator Josh Willis, an oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, specializing in sea level rise. Josh is also a graduate of the improv program at Second City Hollywood Conservatory in Los Angeles. …
by Patrick Lynch / KEFLAVIK, ICELAND / The Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) team is flying NASA's G-III at about 40,000 feet. On a clear day, this altitude also provides a stunning perspective of one of the world's two great ice sheets (the other is Antarctica). The flight Saturday, March 26, over the northeast coastline was …
by Patrick Lynch / KEFLAVIK, ICELAND / Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) will pave the way for improved estimates of sea level rise by investigating the extent to which the oceans are melting Greenland's ice. OMG will observe changing water temperatures and glaciers that reach the ocean around all of Greenland from 2015 to 2020. It's …
by Patrick Lynch / KEFLAVIK, ICELAND / The seven-person Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) team arrived in Keflavik earlier this week to make its first round of research flights over Greenland's eastern coast. The team is flying NASA's GLISTIN-A radar to measure the thickness of glaciers that flow to the ocean. OMG will pave the way …
by Steve Cole / WASHINGTON / Over the next six months this blog will take you on a globe-circling journey of exploration. You'll travel alongside scientists who are pushing back the frontiers of what we know about how our planet works. With a collection of innovative instruments and intricately choreographed experiments adapted to the vagaries …
