Part of the DIS program is that on Wednesdays you do not have regular classes. Instead you go on Field Studies with your classes.This past Wednesday the 29th of September I had a field study for my class entitled, Greenland a Scientific Expedition. In this class we are learning about the past and modern Greenland in preparation for our trip to Greenland in November. As you can imagine the majority of your course material is science oriented, so when it came to our field study I wasn't too shocked to find out that we were going across the city to look at ice. But not just any ice, 200,000 year old ice!
As you can probably tell from the above picture, 200,000 year old ice looks much like the ice of today. (I can't tell the difference) But what is difference is what the scientific make up of the ice tells you. It reveals how our climate in the past has changed to our climate today, which is quite essential to understand when faced with the climate problems of today.
I actually found the visit to the Ice and Climate Center to be quite intriguing. The pictures in this post are of me holding a 200,000 year old ice core sample. The price for seeing such ice is standing in a freezer set at
-20 celsius, with your class as your teacher and a guest lecturer tells you the journey of the ice.
I suppose it is appropriate that I have gotten around to posting about the Ice and Climate Center on my Birthday. As I learn more and more about climate the natural history of the Earth, ice included, it makes me seem extremely young. =D
Hi Natasha - Terry from Mom's office in Sarasota. How "Kool" to have pre-historic ice!!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your adventure. Terry