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NSIDC Scientific Expeditions
Scientists blog from Antarctica and provide a glimpse of what it's like to do research in the field. 
What's hot in the news around climate and sea ice and what are scientists talking about now? 
NSIDC scientists release the full analysis of the 2017 Arctic sea ice melt season.
NSIDC Home
Advancing knowledge of Earth's frozen regions
NSIDC manages and distributes scientific data, creates tools for data access, supports data users, performs scientific research, and educates the public about the cryosphere.
Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis
Scientific analysis of Arctic sea ice conditions plus daily images
The NASA DAAC at NSIDC
NASA Earth science data on snow, ice, cryosphere, and climate.
ELOKA
Working together to understand the changing Arctic system.
Visit the Cryosphere
Facts, photos and educational resources about Earth's frozen regions.
Satellite Observations of Arctic Change
Mapping decades of NASA scientific data.
Greenland Today
Daily surface melt images from NASA data, and scientific analysis.
News
19 September 2017
The Arctic sea ice minimum for 2017 is the eighth lowest in the satellite record.
10 August 2017
The pattern of glacier advance and retreat has not changed along the western Ross Sea coast, in contrast to the rapidly shrinking glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula
22 March 2017
Arctic sea ice was at a record low maximum extent for the third straight year, according to scientists at NSIDC and NASA.
13 December 2016
The method helps the snow safety team reduce the avalanche danger by more precise targeting.
Events
25 October 2017
Paleo-environmental studies on permafrost deposits in western Beringia - from field sampling to lab analysis to regional synthesis
