

South Pole 2015 – Questions and Answers.How many years does it take for a glacier to form? Also, how much of the glacier is actually ice and how much would be other molecules/debris? What food do you eat? (especially at Herc Dome, do you get food drops? -Jim) Do you do Chemistry? Are you a Chemist? Why do you like science? Do you love it there? Is it like a noticeable difference if you are in areas you visited in the past? Thank you. Does Antarctica or any parts of the ice caps look different than the last time you were there years ago? Due to global warming and rising temperatures. Really weird question, but why is snow white? I mean why isn’t it a different color because when water freezes its clear and still kind of the color of water so why isn’t snow like that? Do any of your core samples ever contain pollen, and if so, what can be learned from this? Under what national jurisdiction is Antarctica? Who can/cannot go there? What Kind of Animal have you seen out there? How many penguins have you met? How many do you see on your trips? Do Penguins Fly? How long will you stay in Antarctica to study the glaciers? Are there similar examples from ice cores that corroborate evidence of events from the historical record – such as volcanoes? Recently I saw how dendrochronologists were able to determine the precise year that the trees were cut down by the Vikings and used to construct a building at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. I like sharing information with students that helps them see that knowledge is a latticework constructed with sticks from different disciplines. What is the average temperature in Antarctica, and does it snow every day? Is it cold there? Can you drive on the water and has a bird ever been frozen onto the glacier ?

When there is a glacier and there is an ice bridge how do you navigate the glacier? What’s the biggest glacier you’ve seen? What’s the coldest temperature you’ve ever looked at/for glaciers in? What is the longest living glacier he has found? Are there tectonic-like motions inside the glacier that create subduction and obduction between different layers of ice?

How can 2.5 million-year-old ice have younger ice above and below it. Hercules Dome 2022 Questions and Answers.
