Black Ice - Himalaya

02/05/2016

Thanks for all the support over the years! I'm migrating posts to my new company page, Science in the Wild, here:

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Thank you!

We are an adventure citizen science company specializing in immersive trips around the world and experiential learning. We also offer virtual STEAM lessons, classes and science story time hours.

12/21/2015

https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/658125064329004/

12/21/2015

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

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.

12/09/2015

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

11/19/2015

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

11/12/2015

Change or be changed.

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

http://thefilm.thischangeseverything.org/ Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller. Filmed over 211 days in nine countries and five con...

11/04/2015

Happy to have been a part of this incredible group!

http://projectpossum.org/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…

11/03/2015

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!

11/03/2015

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

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.

10/23/2015

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

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.

10/20/2015

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

10/02/2015

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

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 ...