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Arctic Buildings17 viewsEven if materials didn't need to be housed within a building, storing them outside also posed difficulties. Supplies were stacked on fuel barrels to elevate them above the snow and to protect them from melt water during summer. Image credit: EWG.
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Arctic Buildings18 viewsAlthough summers posed the hazards of melt water, the winters posed problems with deeply drifting snow. In winter, windblown snow had to be cleared from the entrance of this aerological (radiosounding) hut. Image credit: EWG.
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Ice Hazards17 viewsDuring summer, melt ponds posed hazards to the camp. Here, a station member rows an inflatable raft in a melt pond that has formed in the middle of the camp at NP-6. Image credit: EWG.
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Taking Scientific Measurements29 viewsOne of the primary purposes of the drifting stations was to collect all possible meteorological data while on the ice floe. This involved installing, calibrating, and maintaining the instruments. Here, researcher German Maximov conducts a routine calibration of a pyranometer (in the large tube). Image credit: EWG.
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263 viewsSnow Guru Matthew Sturm poses atop Atigun Gorge.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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187 viewsNSIDC director poses at the sign marking the Arctic Circle along the Dalton Highway in Alaska, during the 2011 Arctic Observing Network project.
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202 viewsMark Serreze poses on the Arctic tundra, during the 2011 Arctic Observing Network (Snownet) project
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162 viewsAndrew Slater poses with a snowmobile during the 2011 Arctic Observing Network (Snownet) project in Alaska.
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437 viewsTed Scambos poses in front of the International Antarctic Center in New Zealand, waiting for his flight to Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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389 viewsA traverse member poses on a ridge above McMurdo Station.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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351 viewsTed Scambos poses on a ridge above McMurdo Station, before the start of the U.S.-Norway Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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156 viewsIn Nepal in February 2012, Nunavummiut from Clyde River pose with the Nunavut flag and their local hosts and new friends (from left, Liemikie Palluq, Shari Gearheard, Dhawa Lama, David Iqaqrialu, Jiikemay Thenlay Lama and Mike Jaypoody). Credit: Henry Huntington
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