28 January 2010
What May Be The World's Most Important Science Project – A First Hand Account
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Chaz Firestone accompanied Ann Posegate, and I to Antarctica and his report on the Ice core project underway is in NATURE NEWS this week.
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. His first hand account of the ice cores being drilled at WAIS is in NATURE NEWS this week.
These cores are vital to our understanding of climate change. They will give us a detailed account of the past climate, with accuracy never before seen. It may very well be among the most important research projects on Earth.
Indeed, it could answer the question of just how long we have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, it may also tell us we are already too late to avoid a significant change to Earth’s climate.
Click the Image below to read Chaz’s Article.
click image to read the Nature News Article.
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.