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30 January 2010
The Greenhouse At The Bottom of The World
A little story for you. I’m on the board of our great science museum, SCI Quest, here in Huntsville. Just before my trip to the South Pole, I found out about a project some students were doing with help from Sci Quest. I was asked if it might be possible to get some info or pictures of a greenhouse in Antarctica for them. The students are involved in an eCybermission …
28 January 2010
What May Be The World's Most Important Science Project – A First Hand Account
Chaz Firestone accompanied Ann Posegate and I to Antarctica. He is a native of Toronto, and was part of our group the NSF took to Antarctica. Weather prevented Ann and I from getting to the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet drill site named WAIS Divide. Chaz and Lee Hotz from our group did make it. They were caught there by weather too. Chaz is former editor of the Brown University newspaper. …
27 January 2010
Last 10 years Warmest Decade on Record-NASA GISS
It comes as no surprise to those who follow climate science but NASA announces this week that the first decade of the new millennium was the warmest on the instrumental record. Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS is one of the worlds top climate experts. He has the answers to some common questions about the temperature record here. The National Climate Data Center in Ashville, NC and the Hadley Centre in …
25 January 2010
Some Cool Video From The Bottom of The World
My travel partner to the South Pole, Ann Posegate of the Nat. Env. Education Foundation/Earth Gauge, has posted some video shot in Antarctica two weeks ago. She also links to some video about air monitoring that we shot while at the Pole. Click the image to see and read!
Science South of 60- Things About Antarctica That May Surprise You
Antarctica is an amazing and awesome place. Pictures and words cannot do it justice. That said I will try to use pictures and words to describe it because I know of no other way! This is the first of several posts about science at the bottom of the World. NATIVES: It’s not a place one can live, and there are no “natives” of Antarctica. It’s the only continent on Earth …
24 January 2010
Lost Generation
My News Director spotted this on you tube. Well worth watching. (It’s a palindrome-look it up!)
22 January 2010
Huntsville Tornado Rated an EF2
We continue to get pics and video from viewers after yesterday’s tornado here in the Huntspatch (Huntsville AL). Viewer Lauryn Draper shot some great video fo it and put it up on YouTube. The video was shot a few blocks from our studios. The tornado WAS on the ground through most of this video I suspect. Tornadoes are wind and not cloud, so just because you could not see the …
21 January 2010
Tornado Develops Over Huntsville Thursday
While we were on air during the 5 PM newscast earlier this evening, a tornado developed just east of our studios. We followed it using our city camera on top of the Saturn 5 at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center here in Huntsville. Meteorologist Alan Raymond and I saw the flashes from transformers blowing almost immediately as we brought up the camera image, and knew we had a tornado …
The Real Uncertainties About Climate Change (and why Antarctica may have the answers.)
Two interesting articles out this week about Climate change and they both have connections to my visit to the South Pole last week. Stephen Schwartz at Brookhaven Nat. Labs. has a paper coming out in the AMS Journal of Climate asking why we have not warmed as much as expected with the rapid rise in greenhouse gases over the last century. Most researchers in the field believe that the climate …
19 January 2010
Last Steps To The Bottom of the World
I am back home at last and now I have the bandwidth to share a short video. My travel partner Ann Posegate of NEEF and Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post also has some great pics on her blog. ANN POSEGATE’S Blog I have dreamed of standing at the bottom of the World since reading of Amundsen and Scott at age 8. I made the last steps at age …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.