Scientists
Research Grants
Scientific Publications
Informatics Research
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? 
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 Bering Sea, where one of the greatest migrations on Earth begins.
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 & Analysis
Scientific analysis of Arctic sea ice conditions plus daily images..jpg)
ELOKA
Working together to understand the changing Arctic system..jpg)
Satellite Observations of the Arctic
Mapping decades of NASA scientific data.
The NASA DAAC at NSIDC
NASA Earth science data on snow, ice, cryosphere, and climate.
Visit the Cryosphere
Facts, photos and educational resources about Earth's frozen regions.
Greenland Today
Daily surface melt images from NASA data, and scientific analysis.News
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."
18 June 2019
Glaciologist and PhD student Tasha Snow recently joined the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) a two-month scientific expedition to one of the most unstable glaciers in the world: Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Here, she shares her story.
12 June 2019
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has selected four NSIDC data sets to help assess the state of the cyrosphere in a global changing climate.
28 May 2019
The NSIDC DAAC has published the first data sets collected by NASA's ICESat-2 mission.
Events
No events are currently posted.
The Latest on Snow and Ice
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
6 August 2019
Warm air from Europe’s heat wave reached Greenland on July 29 and 30, setting temperature records at Summit Station and melting about 90 percent of the ice sheet surface from July 30 to... read more
16 July 2019
Loss of ice extent through the first half of July matched loss rates observed in 2012, the year which had the lowest September sea ice extent in the satellite record. Surface melt has become... read more
