"NASA Launches Mission to Track Polar Ice By Plane" NPR Morning edition 10/30/2009

Discussion of how to monitor the loss of ice in the Antarctic by plane as IceSat (satellite) goes out of service.

Seely Martin of UW Oceanography and chief scientist of the IceBridge mission is interviewed.

Full Story

• UW oceanographer is a lead scientist in largest airborne survey of polar ice
• "Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year" Nature article by Eric Steig (UW ESS) and others
• Bering Sea Ice from MODIS