Icy Seas

While Viking rulers of Kyiv in Ukraine formally converted to Christianity in 988 CE at the outer limits of eastern Europe, two small viking settlements emerged at the southern tip of Greenland cl...

https://icyseas.org/2022/12/28/viking-and-inuit-in-greenland/

Having spent my whole life in Maryland, I know very little about narwhals or Greenland. When presented a figure of the distribution of 12 tracked narwhals (Figure 1), I noticed that these mammals...

https://icyseas.org/2022/11/29/behavior-of-cetaceans-in-response-to-salinity-in-maryland-and-greenland/

Greenland’s coastal glaciers melt, shrink, and add to globally rising sealevel. They also drive local ocean currents that move icebergs around unless they are stuck on the bottom. The glaciers�...

https://icyseas.org/2022/11/16/greenland-glacier-driven-ocean-circulation/

“… The intense winds blow against my white fur. The chunks of white, frosty glacial ice float below me. I lift my eyes, scanning my surroundings for my next meal. I see a dark gray mass slidi...

https://icyseas.org/2022/11/03/adaptations-of-genetically-isolated-polar-bears-in-southeast-greenland/

Reading Halldor Laxness’ epic novel “Independent People,” I am in Iceland for the last 10 days. I re-discovered this author after reading a small essay the New Yorker published last week. T...

https://icyseas.org/2022/07/19/my-own-private-iceland/

Steffen Olsen is a Danish physical oceanographer with a skill to present beauty to an artist like my wife and a scientist like me. Three days ago he posted a photo on Twitter with these words “...

https://icyseas.org/2022/04/07/ice-ocean-and-glacier-change-in-northern-greenland/

Claudia Schreier is a sophomore at the University of Delaware. She majors in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Marine Sciences. Ms. Schreier’s essay emerged from an assignment in an undergra...

https://icyseas.org/2021/01/11/waves-across-the-pacific/

Elections are messy, but patterns emerge. Elections have consequences, but people learn. Elections make news, but do we all know how they work? I did not and thus decided to learn. I served as a ...

https://icyseas.org/2020/09/17/election-work-during-a-pandemic/

I hate to rotate. It makes me sick. And yet, every day I spin at 800 miles per hour, because living on a spinning earth does this to me. Why does the earth spin at all? Did it … Continue readi...

https://icyseas.org/2020/08/23/rotations-spin-and-people/

I sit in my home office looking into a garden which explodes in yellow from the forsythia with splashes of pink from the camellias. Both flourish after a large shading cherry tree fell down a few...

https://icyseas.org/2020/04/02/data-obsessions-while-in-self-quarantine/