polar | Mallemaroking – Part 2

by maximios • North Pole

I was reading my copy of Nansen’s Farthest North the other day and came across a discussion of The Jeannette Expedition which was led by Lt. Cmdr. George DeLong. Nansen wrote

I wondered if people knew what a water sky was?

On twitter this pm is a not unexpected, but rather interesting looking opportunity for those who are confident about their leadership abilities.

[news] NERC seeks new Director for BAS: NERC is looking for a new BAS director; full details are available on th… http://t.co/eCHWDIsv

— British Antarctic Survey 🐧 (@BAS_News) December 21, 2012

Follow a couple of links and you end up at a dedicated website called http://www.basdirector.co.uk/index.html

It does have a nice header:

I know what you are thinking, £95k sounds pretty good, but what would you have to do for it?

[This is a post bringing together things I have done elsewhere whilst learning how to use this platform.]

Back in July 2012 the global news media went very big on a story on the Melting of Greenland.

The original BBC Greenland Melting story

I got involved in a discussion on twitter about it, with lots of context and decided to have a go at seeing if I could put together a “storyify” on it using the contributions of a wide range of outstanding climate scientists.

This morning I posted my 10,000 tweet.

Reduced Sea Ice in the Arctic Spurs Phytoplankton Blooms : satellite pics from summer 2012 http://t.co/amq6zvfi

— Mark Brandon (@icey_mark) December 11, 2012

Whilst I am not sure if 10,000 is significant, I pointed to the brilliant NASA Earth Observation www site which has a wonderful post today about the reduction of sea ice increasing phytoplankton growth in the Arctic. (Be sure to click the “image comparision” button on that page).

Sat picture from 10 July 2011 showing milligrams of chlorophyll per cubic meter of seawater. From the Aqua Satellite

[This is a post bringing together things I have done elsewhere whilst learning how to use this platform.]

I am a huge fan of the Natural Environment Research Council, and used to work for the British Antarctic Survey. It is a fact that in the UK at the moment the community has some very tough funding decisions to make.

NERC decided to investigate saving money through a possible merger of the National Oceanography Centre and BAS. It is fair to say that this was not so well recieved.

The story in the Observer