The wild blaring of the alarm suggested we were either going to hit something or the helicopter was about to break apart. I could see the dark water of the fjord rotating through the roof window of the little red-and-white spotted Air Greenland helo. Water through the roof window… is it possible these things can fly upside down? I didn’t …
On comparing things using lines; or, How to make graphs that say what you want them to
In a recent Wall Street Journal editorial by Richard McNider and John Christy, the authors make the claim that not only was John Kerry “flat wrong” on Climate Change in his Feb. 16 speech in Indonesia, but that the climate models used to predict climate sensitivity have “been … consistently and spectacularly wrong”. I won’t expound here on the actual …
Initial Data from the JetYak
By Ken Mankoff In July and August 2013 I was fortunate enough to join Fiamma Straneo, Hanumant Singh, and Sarah Das in Greenland as operator of the JetYak (a remote-controlled jetski-powered kayak). This past week we got our first look at the data. Unfortunately, the scientific cycle is slow, and a lot more data cleaning, processing and analysis needs to be done, …
A proposal for geo-spatial-time-tagged publications
By Ken Mankoff I’ve been working in the scientific domain since 1998, even though I only officially became a scientist in 2013 when I completed my Ph.D. When I began my Ph.D. I had two wishes: 1) Open access publication and 2) Data and software should be considered in addition to publications (and number of citations) as part of the official productivity and impact …
With all the heat of a glacier
I'm one of the newer members of the Greenland fjords research group at Woods Hole, having just arrived last September. Before that, I did a variety of glacier-related work, including research on glacier thermal structure at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia. People's response to this varies; glaciers aren't a part of most folks everyday experience, and they might be …