Black Ice - Himalaya

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-quake-nepal-sherpas-insight-idUSKBN0U20S520151220

Nepal climbers face ruin after quake, blockade hits Everest industry Phurba Tashi Sherpa, the most accomplished high-altitude climber in history, holds a bucket and crowbar as he claws through the rubble of his home seven months after Nepal's earthquake shattered the country.

An excerpt from our Arctic research permit. Guess the language? It's quite the alphabet!

An excellent presentation on science communication by Dr. Jan Marco Mueller today. It's unbelievable how much rainforest we lose every few seconds, as his image shows. Analogies are important for understanding the magnitude of scientific results.

For example, in the Himalaya, using time-lapse cameras, we found that 'small' glacial lake drainages can amount to 40 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water, gone down the glacial system. Satellites flying overhead missed this. Scientists and citizen scientists with their boots on the ground remain so important to scientific discovery.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-16317090

Change or be changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpuSt_ST4_U

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING | Int'l Trailer http://thefilm.thischangeseverything.org/ Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller. Filmed over 211 days in nine countries and five con...

Happy to have been a part of this incredible group!

http://projectpossum.org/possum-graduates-scientist-astronaut-class-1503/

PoSSUM Graduates Scientist-Astronaut Class 1503 On October 13th, Project PoSSUM graduated 11 students as part of PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Class 1503. The PoSSUM candidates learned about upper-atmospheric and noctilucent cloud science while participating in realistic mission simulations developed in partnership with Embry-Riddle. These simulatio…

Two weeks from today! I'll be giving a talk at the UMC on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Photos, videos, and stories from Nepal - and free food!

http://discover.asdi.com/the-girls-on-ice-program-learns-about-spectroscopy?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NirCommunity+%28NIR+Community+from+ASD+Inc.%29

The Girls on Ice Program learns about spectroscopy: Gulkana Glacier, Alaska Former Goetz Instrument Support Program participant Ulyana N. Horodyskyj, Ph.D. provides us with this recap where she worked with a HandHeld 2 spectroradiometer and the Girls on Ice program.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151008-the-graveyard-in-the-clouds-everests-200-dead-bodies?utm_content=bufferd2367&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Death in the clouds: The problem with Everest’s 200+ bodies They lie frozen in time, thousands of metres above sea level. The grim death toll on Everest is becoming impossible to ignore, says Rachel Nuwer.

Coming to Houston, TX next week!

Wednesday, October 28 at 12 PM, slightly more technical: http://earthscience.rice.edu/seminar/ulyana-horodyskyj-tracking-supraglacial-lake-changes-on-ngozumpa-glacier-nepal-noontime-seminar/

Wednesday, October 28 at 4 PM, for general public audience:
http://events.rice.edu/index.cfm?EventRecord=26524

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4FL5GI4U7E&sns=fb

Sherpa Trailer From Director Jennifer Peedom, SHERPA looks at how the Mount Everest Sherpa community united in grief and anger to reclaim the mountain following the deadly ...