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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? 
A newly published book chapter discusses the role of technology in sharing and preserving Indigenous Knowledge for future generations.
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
20 September 2016
15 September 2016
Arctic sea ice reached its apparent minimum extent on September 10, 2016. Arctic sea ice extent on that day stood at 4.14 million sq. km., statistically tied at second lowest in the satellite record with the 2007 minimum.
28 March 2016
Sea ice extent over the Arctic Ocean averaged 14.52 million square kilometers on March 24, beating last year’s record low of 14.54 million square kilometers on February 25.
14 March 2016
“Upside-down rivers” of warm ocean water threaten the stability of floating ice shelves in Antarctica, according to a new study led by researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center published today in Nature Geoscience.
16 February 2016
A network of these stations would allow scientists to better understand how ocean currents and wind shifts in the far southern continent are affecting the ice sheet.
Events
The Sea Ice Index: A Resource for Cryospheric Knowledge Mobilization
Topic to be announced.
