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7 March 2010
Ice Cube at The South Pole (in HD too!)
I promised in an earlier post that I would post some more video of my tour of Ice Cube the neutrino telescope being constructed at the South Pole. So here it is, thanks to my Mac and iMovie. Excuse my camera work. I may work in TV, but I’m a meteorologist not a photojournalist. Fortunately, I was given a very short course by professionals and a really great camera that was …
3 March 2010
Antarctica- Science On The Ice (Parts 1-4)
We have finished airing, on WHNT- TV, the 4 part series on Antarctica. All 4 parts are available to watch on this post but the movies are small. Ann Posegate and I actually shot in HD and in coming weeks I will edit some of the HD video together and put it online. We have just skimmed some of the science and for my fellow nerds, we have some beautiful …
2 March 2010
Science on the Ice- Part Two
Here is Part two of the 4 part series we are airing of the trip to Antarctica Ann Posegate and I made in early January. I will be posting some higher resolution videos of specific events and places soon!
25 February 2010
Penguin Dreams and Other Things
Not too many people can say they have seen a Polar Bear and a Penguin in the wild. To do so one must go to the far North and the far South. Polar Bears live only in the High North and Penguins in, and near Antarctica. I like penguins best, they don’t consider me a tasty snack. My travel colleage on our National Science Foundation expedition to Antarctica sent me …
11 February 2010
The Strangest Telescope On Earth- Ice Cube
I had a tour last month of the world’s strangest telescope. Not many have seen it, much less taken the tour. Why? It’s at the South Pole. Only about 4,000 people have ever been to the South Pole. Most were there before construction began! It’s called ICE CUBE. A telescope in the shape of (and made of in reality too) a giant ice cube. I mean a big cube too. …
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. …
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 …
21 January 2010
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 …
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.