Glacial Science
Scientists in Norway are going to be accurately measuring and studying glaciers. These Autonomous Sub-Glacial Probes will be set deep into glaciers and measure temperature, pressure, and speed, and analyze the sediment.
Although the implications for studying global climate change are tremendous, what I find most fascinating is just the idea of it. Technology has advanced so far that we can place an electronic “rock” deep into the bowels of a glacier. It is advances like this that keep me from being overwhelmed by all the negative technological advances humanity makes.
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June 24th, 2004 at 8:19 pm
About three years ago Nola and I drove up to Yukon. She deked off the Stewart-Cassiar near Alaska, so I could see a glacier. I couldn’t remember ever having seen one, though I must’ve as a child. It was pouring rain. We parked the car in a pullout and stared at this immensely heavy blue river of ice. It glowed with cold, and dropped a miniscule calf in the little lake just below.
June 24th, 2004 at 8:58 pm
Oooh!
I can’t really imagine what glaciers are like. I mean, you can see pictures, but I don’t think that would really prepare me for the immensity of them. Not at all.