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Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), has received the highest honor awarded to faculty across the CU system—distinguished professorship. In order to receive this distinction, candidates must demonstrate exemplary performance in research or creative work, have a record of excellence in classroom teaching and supervision of individual learning, and exhibit outstanding leadership and service to the profession. Only 106 faculty members have received the distinguished professorship since its inception in 1977.
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Greenland Today
Daily surface melt images from NASA data, and scientific analysis.News
9 September 2019
Chartic, a data visiualization tool, charts sea ice loss using satellite data and helps users better understand what is happening in remote parts of our planet.
4 September 2019
Four National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) scientists, including Matt Druckenmiller, Alia Khan, Twila Moon, and Julienne Stroeve, are participating in the Arctic Futures 2050 Conference this week in Washington, D.C. The conference, which takes place from September 4 to 6 and is convened by the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), is dedicated to “exploring the knowledge needed to inform decisions concerning the Arctic in coming decades.”
12 August 2019
Sea ice data from NSIDC helps the Alaska Department of Fish and Game forecast the arrival of Chinook salmon at mouth of the Yukon River in the Bering Sea, where one of the greatest migrations on Earth begins.
11 July 2019
NSIDC research scientist Twila Moon testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology today. Moon offered her expertise on the Greenland Ice Sheet during a hearing entitled “Earth’s Thermometers: Glacial and Ice Sheet Melt in a Changing Climate."
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The Latest on Snow and Ice
17 September 2019
The end of the Arctic sea ice melt season is nigh. The last couple of weeks have seen small rises and falls in ice extent, primarily due to changes in wind patterns. However, falling temperatures... read more
5 September 2019
While Arctic sea ice extent was tracking at record low levels in July and August, the pace of ice loss slowed considerably after the middle of August, despite above-average air temperatures over... read more
15 August 2019
At mid-month, Arctic sea ice extent is tracking close to 2012, the year with the lowest minimum in the satellite record. Sea ice volume is also tracking at low levels. Smoke from Siberian... read more
6 August 2019
Arctic sea ice extent in July tracked at record low levels for multiple individual days and for the month as a whole. During the second half of the month, air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean... read more
