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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The 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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Eric 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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The 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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The 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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Ocean 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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