IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS, scientists from the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) continue long-term research efforts on the Greenland ice sheet.
Glaciology in a Warming World
FIVE FIELD SEASONS ago at the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier in western Greenland, glaciologist Mark Fahnestock was “simply” trying to measure the speed with which the vast river of ice was racing towards the sea. Read More…
A Score and More at the Summit
BACK IN 1998 at the National Science Foundation’s Summit Station Observatory in Greenland, a team of researchers led by atmospheric chemist Jack Dibb stumbled upon a chemical process that launched a new branch of scientific investigation—snow photochemistry. Read More…

A CHANCE encounter next to the Complex Systems Research Center mailboxes led to a pre-eureka moment for Ruth Varner. Early last year her CSRC colleague, tropical ecologist and sound technologist/musician Michael Palace, was opening a package when Varner passed by. “Guess what I got?” Palace asked Varner. Read More…

FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS, a sentinel buoy has bobbed about in waters northeast of Appledore Island in the Gulf of Maine taking hourly readings of both atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide. It is one of just half-a-dozen such buoys nationwide making a crucial measurement… Read More…

ONE YEAR AGO, these pages reported that Space Science Center scientists, engineers, and machinists had pulled off something of an eleventh-hour miracle by rescuing a mission-critical or "Level 1 science" instrument for NASA's MMS mission.  Read More…

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