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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
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
Laurie Padman, ESR Vice-President and Senior Scientist, has been appointed Editor at the Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans). His primary responsibility will be handling submitted papers on polar oceanography and its interactions with sea ice, ice shelves and ice … Read More
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Monday, February 12 9:30AM: Oregon Convention Center, B116 Dr. Gary Lagerloef, ESR Scientist Emeritus Topic: Seasonal to Interannual Surface Ocean Salinity Variations with Aquarius Data 12:00pm: Oregon Convention Center, B116 Dr. Julian Schanze, ESR Research Scientist Topic: … Read More