Permafrost Podcast
Losing our Permafrost I (ca. 4 MB mp3-file per part, right mouseklick, file save as) - Melville Island part 1 and part 2, by Dr. Lamoureux and Dr. Turetsky, or go direct to the homepage of the canadian scientific radio-transmission "Quirks & Quarks" .
January 2007 - Under the surface of the Beaufort sea are some very strange geological formations. They're called pingo-like features, named after similar structures found on land: Bubbling Methane in the Beaufort
June 2003 - Journey to Beringia, Host Bob McDonald and Producer Jim Lebans recently attended the Third International Mammoth Conference in Dawson City, Yukon (Searching fossils in permafrost)
- David Bressan's blog
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Does anyone heard smth like these somewhere else? Because I consider such podcasts to be the good chance to improve English outside the international events.
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I've seen several of them over the past two years, I'll try to get a hand on them. this one is cool:
http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/4
permafrost does not melt.
file:///Files/pdfs%20Abstracts-papers/Grosse%20melt%20EOS.pdf
I found this one too: http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/302473
Even one in German:
http://www.podcast.de/episode/529925/Hans-Wolfgang_Hubberten:_Permafrost...
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On the canadian website there are other podcast about glaciers and climate change - I will add them soon in the first post.
Here - if somebody is interested to learn even italian - videos about the conference 24.11.2007 about glacier and periglacial change in the italian alps. The video-files are very large (up to 600MB!)
http://sgl.cluster.it/video_24novembre.htm
"Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice."
"Fire and Ice" Robert Lee Frost (1920)
Living on Earth continues its series exploring features of the American landscape. The feature is based on the book "Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape," edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney. In this installment, Eva Saulitis reads her definition of "frost line". (2:25)
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"Some say the world will end in fire; Some say in ice."
"Fire and Ice" Robert Lee Frost (1920)
The "podclast", featuring the Phoenix Mars Lander, and here, that was seem to remember a patterned ground on Mars (pic.4.)
The U.S. Geological Survey podcast on climatic change and paleoclimatology:
http://www.usgs.gov/corecast/
Veteran Arctic journalist Ed Struzik has spent more than enough time in the Canadian North in his career to recognize for himself the sudden and dramatic changes that are occurring there. His new book, The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting North, is more than just his personal recollections, though. It's also the stories of the scientists he's traveled with, who are seeing rapid changes not just with their eyes, but in the evidence they've collected. The changes are also told in the stories of the Inuit people he's spent time with, whose lives are being transformed by climate change in Canada's north.
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The permafrost that comprises two-thirds of all Arctic coastlines is eroding by an average of 1-2 metres per year, and more than 8 metres in some places. This erosion is documented in a new report called, "State of the Arctic Coast 2010". It was prepared by scientists representing various Arctic research groups from ten countries, including Canada. Dr. Wayne Pollard, a Professor of Geography at McGill University, and the Director of McGill's Arctic Research Station, has also researched this problem and his work was cited in the report. He says the coastal permafrost erosion is the result of prolonged periods of exposure to open water, due to loss of the sea ice that once provided a buffer. The permafrost is even more vulnerable to erosion from waves and storms as it warms in rising global temperatures. The report also describes the impact on the lives of the people living in the coastal regions most effected, as well as the ecosystems that are at risk. Dr. Pollard suggests the report is a warning to polar countries to start planning ways of adapting to this issue.
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/episode/2011/04/23/april-23-2011/