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The Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE) team has just begun a comprehensive, three-month data collection mission to the Arctic Ocean. A fleet of Wave Gliders was just deployed in the Beaufort Sea. The goal of this … Read More
Earth and Space Research was happy to be part of Read-a-Rama’s May ocean-themed E-camp last Saturday. Camp Read-a-Rama is a non-profit that uses books for children and young adults as the springboard for it’s program activities. Susan Howard (ESR) gave … Read More
Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, which sank in 1915, is still somewhere at the bottom of the Weddell Sea at a depth of around 3000 m. Frank Worsley, Shackleton’s navigator, recorded the location using a sextant and chronometer. As a new … Read More
Today, ESR celebrates the 30th anniversary of Ice Station Weddell (ISW), a US-Russian ice camp set up from the Russian ship Akademik Fedorov onto a multiyear drifting ice floe near 71.4oS in the western Weddell Sea. ESR’S Laurie Padman was … Read More
ESR recently released 2 new tide models in the Arctic region.: Arc2kmTM and Gr1kmTM. The Arctic 2km tide model (Arc2kmTM) and the Greenland 1km tide model (Gr1kmTM) are barotropic ocean tide models on a 2×2 km and 1×1 km polar … Read More
We welcome two oceanographers who have recently joined our team at ESR: Senior Scientist Oleg Melnichenko, and Research Scientist Jesse Anderson. Oleg’s research focuses on mesoscale ocean currents, mesoscale air-sea interaction, dynamics of the upper ocean mixed layer, and satellite remote sensing of ocean … Read More
ESR’s polar research group provides tide models and validation datasets through the Arctic Data Center (ADC), which is the primary data and software repository for the Arctic section of National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs (NSF OPP). We … Read More
Earth and Space Research (ESR) is sad to announce the passing of our friend and colleague Robin Muench, who died suddenly at his home January 25th at the age of 78. Robin co-founded ESR with Gary Lagerloef in 1995. … Read More
Scott Springer and Laurie Padman, scientists at ESR, are co-authors of an open-access paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research entitled “Evolution of the Seasonal Surface Mixed Layer of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, Observed With Autonomous Profiling Floats”. The paper, … Read More