This is a single, stand alone image from the New York Times of a Glacier/iceberg flow. Location and other information is not provided. Full description.

Lessons plans on polar science activities for use in K-8 classroom are available on this website. Topics are Sea Level Change, Glacial Dynamics, Water Properties, Icebergs, and Global Warming. Each plan includes activity time, materials, background, directions, discussion, extension, related activities and vocabulary. These plans align to National and Kansas science standards. Full description.

This slide show explains that by understanding past climate variability, scientists hope to understand the course of future changes in the earth's climate system. This slide set outlines past climate variability by reconstructing abrupt climate changes in the Late Pleistocene, specifically sudden cold events known as Heinrich Events, which have occurred six times in the past 75,000 years involving ... Full description.

This two-hour module examines sea ice, icebergs, and the products and services of the National Ice Center and the North American Ice Service. Topics include climatology and current trends in sea ice extent and thickness; the development, classification, and drift of sea ice and icebergs; fractures, leads and polynyas; and the satellite detection of sea ice using visible, infrared, and microwave sensors. ... Full description.

The Larsen ice shelf at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula experienced a dramatic collapse between January 31 and March 7, 2002. First, melt ponds appeared on the ice shelf during these summer months (seen in blue on the shelf), then a minor collapse of about 800 square kilometers occurred. Finally, a 2600 square kilometer collapse took place, leaving thousands of sliver icebergs and berg ... Full description.

This video lecture explores the effects of climate change on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Slides depict how a large iceberg fell off the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. The lecturer describes his expedition to the ice shelf shortly after this event. He describes dives conducted to observe the underwater ecosystems containing krill and jellyfish, and the ocean currents around the icebergs. Facts ... Full description.

The sea ice around Antarctica grows dramatically from late February, when large parts of the coast are ice-free, to October, when the amount of sea ice effectively doubles the size of the continent. The SeaWinds Scatterometer instrument on the QuikSCAT satellite captures this dramatic ebb and flow and shows the sea ice as dynamic and always moving, even in areas that are ice-bound. This animation ... Full description.

This Thinkquest site provides information about: winter sports and health, including hypothermia and frostbite; the history of the ice age; and the science of snow, including glaciers, icebergs, ice caves, frost, animals that live in the snow, avalanches, and the water cycle. There are book reviews and poems, a snow dictionary, games and quizzes, activities (how to build a snowman and snow painting), ... Full description.

In this exercise, students observe simulations of melting sea ice and a melting continental ice sheet in order to investigate the relationship between the melting of the ice and the water level in the tank. The water tanks simulate the world oceans. In the first example, the ice is floating in water. This would be an example of icebergs or Arctic ice floating on the ocean. In the second example the ... Full description.

This 5-minute animation portrays fluctuations in the cryosphere through observations collected from a variety of satellite-based sensors. The cryosphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form, including areas of snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets, and icebergs. In these regions, surface temperatures remain below freezing for a portion of each ... Full description.