by admin | Aug 11, 2019 | News
Importance of Science – July 31, 2019 This week’s Science Wednesday comes courtesy of guest blogger, Ricardo Peña, who talks about the importance of science and rational thinking in this modern world. Check out the video on our Facebook...
by admin | Aug 11, 2019 | News
Warming Arctic – July 24, 2019 I’ve been aboard the Polar Pioneer ship, circumnavigating the Svalbard archipelago, close to the North Pole with Aurora Expeditions this last week. Svalbard is built on permanently frozen ground called permafrost. For years,...
by admin | Aug 11, 2019 | News
Lunar Landing Anniversary – July 17, 2019 The 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing is approaching. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to step foot on another planetary body. Indeed, it was “one small step for (a)...
by admin | Jul 11, 2019 | News
Bennu the Asteroid – July 10, 2019 Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid that was discovered on September 11, 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that has a 1-in-2700 chance of impacting Earth between the years 2175 and 2199. Bennu is the target of...
by admin | Jul 11, 2019 | News
Solar Eclipse – July 3, 2019 We’re down in Montevideo, Uruguay at the moment and our visit overlapped with a solar eclipse. In Montevideo, it was a partial eclipse (95%) and the maximum coverage occurred right around sunset. Did you know that during...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Travel with Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the most hard-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
The World’s Most Adventurous Women 2019 Meet the new adventure icons. From rock climber and mountaineer Emily Harrington scaling massive caves in China to big-wave surfer Maya Gabeira staring down a 68-foot wave in Portugal, here are 17 of the most adventurous...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Citizen Science: How Ordinary People Are Changing the Face of Discovery Think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries? Think again. All around the world, in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, millions of everyday people...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Giving Science Back to the Citizens Patrick Rowe is a science technician with the organization Science in the Wild and owner of Midwest ROV, LLC. We spoke about his career, the role of support staff in scientific endeavors, and the importance of everyday citizens in...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Flash floods threaten more people than thought, as ice melts The Himalaya, the breathtaking consequence of the battle between two tectonic plates, is home to spectacular mountains and a family of glaciers whose waters sustain 1.65 billion people across the region. The...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
The Alpinist Becoming an Astronaut Ulyana Nadia Horodyskyj has always been an explorer, interested in the mysteries of planet earth and the space beyond it. One of her first research projects investigated how solar sails could be used to deliver supplies into outer...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Boulder trio of scientists found challenging, changing ‘laboratory’ at Baffin Island Three Boulder scientists who ventured onto Baffin Island’s Penny Ice Cap last month to conduct science on a shoestring are back in Boulder safely, untouched by bears but...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Ice Trailblazers When Ulyana Horodyskyj was six she visited the Swiss Alps and fell in love with the mountains…...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Glacial Lake’s Disappearing Act Caught on Film In mere days this June, a glacial lake in the Himalayas lost the equivalent of 42 Olympic-size swimming pools of water and then slowly refilled. And for the first time, scientists caught this...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Himalayan Glacial Lakes Some scientists conduct their experiments in a laboratory — think clean white walls, artificial lighting, A.C. and a convenient coffee pot not far away. Not so for Ulyana Horodyskyj, a graduate student at the University of Colorado....
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Remote Mountain Peaks are a Boulder Scientist’s Laboratory “We have a portable laboratory,” Horodyskyj says. “Sometimes we carry loads of fifty or sixty pounds up and down the mountain.” Horodyskyj wants to know how black carbon pollution (commonly known as...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Taking a glacier’s pulse Ulyana Horodyskyj rappels down a ridge on the Ngozumpa Glacier in the Himalaya mountain range. Working at about 5,000 m above sea level — Tibet to the north and Nepal to the south — her stunning view of snow-capped peaks is breathtaking....
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Caught on Video: A Himalayan Glacier Deflates Himalayan glaciers are melting and retreating at their edges because of global warming. But they also conceal a more ominous effect of climate change: they are deflating. They are losing internal ice mass to melting, which...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Taking the pulse of Ngozumpa It’s not the greatest glacier to look at – far from it. It’s smothered in a layer of rocky debris that’s fallen from the surrounding cliffs, giving it a very grey, dirty appearance. But Ngozumpa is generating a lot...
by admin | Jun 26, 2019 | News
T-rex in Space! – June 26, 2019 Earlier this week, I went on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Sharing with you today something out-of-this-world! Back in 1992, a house was being constructed in Littleton, Colorado. During...
