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This in-flight photo shows Drygalski Glacier on the Antarctic Coast. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
A discontinuous glacier breaks apart due to airfall near Sjogren Glacier. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight photo shows Crane Glacier, located along the Antarctic Coast. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
An in-flight photo of Hektoria Glacier, shows a pattern of shifting in the foreground. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight photo shows Jorum Glacier, located along the Antarctic Coast. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight photo shows James Ross Island (foreground) and the Antarctic coastline, including Victory Glacier (background). Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight photo shows Melville Glacier and Mapple Glacier. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
The IceTrek team drove up from Rio Gallegos to Parque Nacional los Glaciares. This is one in a series of photos from Parque Nacional los Glaciares. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight view shows Polaris Glacier, bordering Pyke Glacier. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
Punchbowl Glacier is located along the Antarctic Coast. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
Pyke Glacier borders Edgeworth Glacier. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight view shows Rohss Glacier, located on James Ross Island. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
Pyke Glacier borders Polaris Glacier in Antarctica. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This photo shows Trinity Peninsula, near Sjogren Glacier. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight view shows Sjogren Glacier, with Trinity Peninsula in the background. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight photo shows Vega Island (foreground), James Ross Island (midground), and the Antarctic coast (background). Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight view shows Vega Island (foreground) and Trinity Peninsula (background). Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight view shows Vega Island. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight view shows Vega Island, particularly its coastline. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This photo was taken during a flight over the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Bird Glacier lurks in the background, with Darwin Glacier in the foreground. Image Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC Megadunes Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight view shows Victory Glacier, near James Ross Island. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight photo shows James Ross Island. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
Perito Moreno Glacier is stable in its retreating pattern, bifurcating the far side of the Argentine Lake. IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This in-flight view shows Pequod Glacier along the Antarctic Coast. IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
This photo shows glacial retreat on the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC IceTrek Web site (View photo detail.)
Crevasse in dissipator of Stockje Glacier. Aug. 11, 1894. Photographed by Harry F. Reid. Image Credit: Courtesy NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection (View photo detail.)
Emmons Glacier, 22 September 1966, photographed by Austin Post. Image Credit: Courtesy NSIDC Glacier Photo Collection NSIDC Glacier Photo Collection (View photo detail.)
Antarctica is covered with ice--much of it in the form of glaciers and ice streams. Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC (View photo detail.)
Deep crevasses break the surface of Crane Glacier in Antarctica (View photo detail.)
Crevasses mark the surface of Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica (View photo detail.)
NSIDC lead scientist Ted Scambos and Erin Pettit, glaciologist at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, pause for a picture in front of the peaks and glaciers ringing Beascochea Bay during the 2013 LARISSA Project. The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) Project is a large, interdisciplinary, multi-institute study to explore every aspect of the deteriorating Larsen Ice Shelf region in Antarctica. Participating researchers set up instruments on the glaciers that feed into the remaining portion of the Larsen ice shelf. As changes occur on the ice, the stations will record it in data and pictures. (Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC) Read about the project on http://iceshelf.wordpress.com. (View photo detail.)
Cold winds blowing snow into the Crane Glacier drainage basin during the LARISSA 2013 Project. Above are standing wave lenticular clouds, similar to those seen in Colorado’s Front Range. The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) Project is a large, interdisciplinary, multi-institute study to explore every aspect of the deteriorating Larsen Ice Shelf region in Antarctica. Participating researchers set up instruments on the glaciers that feed into the remaining portion of the Larsen ice shelf. As changes occur on the ice, the stations will record it in data and pictures. (Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC) Read the expedition blog on http://iceshelf.wordpress.com. (View photo detail.)
Researchers fly over Crane Glacier to look for an area to set up their instruments and an Extreme Ice Survey camera, during the 2013 LARISSA expedition. The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) Project is a large, interdisciplinary, multi-institute study to explore every aspect of the deteriorating Larsen Ice Shelf region in Antarctica. Participating researchers set up instruments on the glaciers that feed into the remaining portion of the Larsen ice shelf. As changes occur on the ice, the stations will record it in data and pictures. (Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC) Read the expedition blog on http://iceshelf.wordpress.com. (View photo detail.)
The calving front of Crane Glacier is 6 kilometers wide. Note the glacier trim line of past glacier levels on the far side. The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) Project is a large, interdisciplinary, multi-institute study to explore every aspect of the deteriorating Larsen Ice Shelf region in Antarctica. Participating researchers set up instruments on the glaciers that feed into the remaining portion of the Larsen ice shelf. As changes occur on the ice, the stations will record it in data and pictures. (Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC) Read the expedition blog on http://iceshelf.wordpress.com. (View photo detail.)
Youdong Cho, mountaineer and Won Sang Lee, geophysicist, look over the outcrop of rock selected for a planned later deployment of the seismic instrumentation and the Extreme Ice Survey camera during the 2013 LARISSA Project. The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) Project is a large, interdisciplinary, multi-institute study to explore every aspect of the deteriorating Larsen Ice Shelf region in Antarctica. Participating researchers set up instruments on the glaciers that feed into the remaining portion of the Larsen ice shelf. As changes occur on the ice, the stations will record it in data and pictures. (Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC) Read the expedition blog on http://iceshelf.wordpress.com. (View photo detail.)
An Extreme Ice Survey camera is set up at Spring Point overlooking the Cayley Glacier calving front to the east by members of the LARISSA 2013 team. The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) Project is a large, interdisciplinary, multi-institute study to explore every aspect of the deteriorating Larsen Ice Shelf region in Antarctica. Participating researchers set up instruments on the glaciers that feed into the remaining portion of the Larsen ice shelf. As changes occur on the ice, the stations will record it in data and pictures. (Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC) Read the expedition blog on http://iceshelf.wordpress.com. (View photo detail.)
Amy Leventer of Colgate College and Ronald Ross install an Extreme Ice Survey camera at Spring Point overlooking the Cayley Glacier calving front to the east, with the R/V Araon in the foreground. The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) Project is a large, interdisciplinary, multi-institute study to explore every aspect of the deteriorating Larsen Ice Shelf region in Antarctica. Participating researchers set up instruments on the glaciers that feed into the remaining portion of the Larsen ice shelf. (Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC) Read the expedition blog on http://iceshelf.wordpress.com. (View photo detail.)
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