PDF DownloadAlaska glaciers help drive rise in sea level
An Alaska researcher and her colleague from the University of British Columbia have calculated that the rate of sea-level rise due to the meltwater from glaciers in Alaska and elsewhere will increase by as much as 60 percent by the year 2100, and that half of the world’s smallest glaciers won’t survive until then.
Study finds permafrost warming, monitoring improving
CONTACT: Brian Keenan, Geophysical Institute PR assistant, at 907-474-5229, info [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu.
Fairbanks, Alaska — Permafrost warming continues throughout a wide swath of the Northern Hemisphere, according to a team of scientists assembled during the recent International Polar Year.
Greenland’s melting landscape may foreshadow Alaska’s future
CONTACT: Brian Keenan, GI Outreach Office, 907-474-5992, info [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Fairbanks, Alaska— University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists will travel to Greenland in April 2010 to better understand how warming ocean temperatures impact ocean-outlet glaciers on the massive arctic island. Such studies will shed light on the future of the ice-laden country, and may provide analogs on how warmer temperatures could impact Alaska’s landscape.
Sea Ice
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The fact that ice floats is one of its most amazing and important properties. There are very few other materials on Earth, and none as abundant as water, that expand as they solidify so that the solid form becomes less dense than the liquid form.
