Earlier this year, Lucas Jackson, a photographer with Reuters, joined a team of scientists affiliated with a NASA project named Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) and traveled with it to the Greenland ice sheet and fjords. Jackson photographed the researchers as they set up their scientific equipment and took readings to help understand the ongoing impact of the melting glaciers and map out what to expect in the future. Jackson says: “For both journalists and scientists, climate change is difficult to document. It most often happens imperceptibly—a tenth of a degree increase in temperature, a few less inches of rain, a slowly melting ice sheet.”
Studying Greenland’s Ice to Understand Climate Change
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Read moreThe safety officer Brian Rougeux assembles a radar dome while working at the research camp above Helheim Glacier near Tasiilaq, Greenland, on June 20, 2018. #
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Read moreAn iceberg floats in a fjord near Tasiilaq on June 16, 2018. #
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Read moreThe pilot in command, Tom Parent, checks out the exterior of a NASA Gulfstream G-III during a preflight inspection of the aircraft before a flight to support the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) research mission at an airport in Keflavik, Iceland, on March 12, 2018. #
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Read moreMeltwater pools are seen on top of Helheim Glacier near Tasiilaq, Greenland, on June 19, 2018. #
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Read moreEric Ianson, the earth-science-flight-programs director at NASA, looks out at the Greenland ice sheet while inside a NASA Gulfstream III flying to measure loss to the country's ice sheet as part of the OMG research mission on March 13, 2018. #
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Read moreGlacial flow is seen out the window of the NASA Gulfstream III above the east coast of Greenland on March 13, 2018. #
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Read moreThe safety officer Brian Rougeux carries a fiberglass shell as he works to assemble a protective radar dome at the research camp above Helheim Glacier near Tasiilaq, Greenland, on June 23, 2018. #
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Read moreThe oceanographer David Holland works with Brian Rougeux (right) and Febin Magar to assemble a fiberglass structure at the research camp above Helheim Glacier on June 20, 2018. #
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Read moreMeltwater pools sit on top of Helheim Glacier on June 19, 2018. #
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Read moreBrian Rougeux prepares to install scientific instruments that will be left on top of Helheim Glacier on June 19, 2018. #
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Read moreBrian Rougeux uses a drill to install antennas for scientific instruments that will be left on Helheim Glacier on June 19, 2018. #
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Read moreA large crevasse forms near the calving front of Helheim Glacier on June 22, 2018. #
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Read moreThe oceanographer David Holland works with Brian Rougeux to repair equipment at the research camp above Helheim Glacier on June 22, 2018. #
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Read moreOcean water is pushed up by the bottom of a pinnacle iceberg as it falls back during a large calving event at Helheim Glacier on June 22, 2018. For a longer time-lapse video of this amazing event, see the Reuters article here. #
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Read moreAn iceberg floats in a fjord near Tasiilaq, Greenland, on June 16, 2018. #
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Read moreA small skiff motors past an iceberg in the open ocean near Tasiilaq on June 24, 2018. #
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Read moreAn aerial photograph of the oceanographer David Holland's science camp beside Helheim Glacier on June 20, 2018 #
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Read moreThe student Febin Magar watches as leftover wood burns at a research camp near Tasiilaq on June 20, 2018. #
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Read moreThe snow-covered shore is reflected in the still water of a fjord near Tasiilaq on June 16, 2018. #
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Read moreSunshine strikes Helheim Glacier on June 22, 2018. #
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Read moreAn iceberg floats in a fjord near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, on June 18, 2018. #
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