Monthly Archives: August 2010
Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth
A breakthrough paper, published today in the journal Science, uses NASA data to explain the connection between plant growth and climate change. Plants remove carbon from the air in the first step of the carbon cycle, so it is critical … Continue reading
Snowpocolypse Revisited
This is a recent post I wrote for NASA’s What on Earth blog. They finally figured out what caused all that snow this past winter. Check out the post here. Check out the cool visualization from the Scientific Visualization Studio:
Greenland footage on CNN
Tom Wagner from NASA’s Cryosphere program was interviewed today on CNN. During the interview, they used some of my b-roll from Operation IceBridge in Greenland this past March. Click here to see the interview on CNN.
Large Slab of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier Breaks Off
On August 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles in size, broke off the Petermann Glacier along the northwestern coast of Greenland. The glacier lost about one-quarter of its 40-mile long floating ice shelf, the Northern … Continue reading


