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Sólheimajökull glacier in southern Iceland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland

Icebergs

Ice shelf cliffs

Venable Ice Shelf in West Antarctica

Ross Ice Shelf at the Bay of Whales

Edge of the Larsen B Ice Shelf

Edge of Larsen B ice shelf

Glacier in the Wrangell Mountains

Emmons Glacier, September 1966

Glacier in Antarctica

Glacier in the Wrangell Mountains

Greenland glacier

Teepee in northern Finland

Snowmobile in Finland

Alaska volcano

Permafrost tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska

Permafrost

Large, retrogressive thaw slump on Herschel Island (photo by Boris Radosavljević)

Large, retrogressive thaw slump on Herschel Island (photo by Boris Radosavljević)

Large, retrogressive thaw slump on Herschel Island (photo by Boris Radosavljević)

Buried glacier ice on Herschel Island (photo by Boris Radosavljević)

Sea ice lead

Sea ice lead

Large melt pond on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Ice floes in the northern Bering Sea

Sea ice rafting and deformation

Sea ice at Nome, Alaska

Pancake ice in Lake Michigan near Mackinaw

Lake ice lead in Green Bay

NASA comparison of Arctic sea ice in different years

Needle ice

Cryosphere in the backyard

Ice circles, iceballs, sea ice leads, and orange snow

Antarctic Sea Ice by Tian Tian

Antarctic Sea Ice by Tian Tian

Antarctic Sea Ice by Tian Tian

Coronation Glacier in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, which is the only outlet from the 6,000 km<sup>2</sup> Penny Ice Cap that reaches the ocean. Photo by Karen Alley.

Coronation Glacier in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, which is the only outlet from the 6,000 km<sup>2</sup> Penny Ice Cap that reaches the ocean. Photo by Karen Alley.

Coronation Glacier in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, which is the only outlet from the 6,000 km<sup>2</sup> Penny Ice Cap that reaches the ocean. Photo by Karen Alley.

Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island. Photo by Karen Alley.

Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island. Photo by Karen Alley.

Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island. Photo by Karen Alley.

Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island. Photo by Karen Alley.

Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island. Photo by Karen Alley.

Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. Photo by Karen Alley.

C141 on the sea ice at McMurdo

C17 airplane to McMurdo from Christchurch

Antarctic traverse vehicle with radar for sensing crevasses

The geographic South Pole

A Huey helicopter near McMurdo

Sea ice runway at McMurdo

Instruments on Greenland at Swiss Camp

C-130 at South Pole

NOAA P3 during Leadex

P3 approaching Mt McKinley during Leadex

Leadex

Leadex

Sea ice lead during Leadex

Making measurements in Green Bay

Mr Erebus, Antarctica

RRS James Clark Ross

Instruments on Antarctic Ice Sheet

C-130 during the SHEBA experiment

SHEBA

Sea ice during SHEBA

SHEBA

SHEBA

SHEBA

Snow Cat tractor buried at Siple Dome field camp

South pole temperature

US Coast Guard icebreaker in Green Bay

USCGC Mackinaw (US Coast Guard Cutter) in Cheboygan, Michigan

Drone with a 6-band imager over ice near Mackinaw City, USA

SIMSS 92, Canadia Archipelago

Wellington Channel camp during SIMSS 92

Yinghui Liu (NOAA) measuring snow weight and volume

Andrew Einhorn (U. Alaska-Fairbanks) measuring snow depth

Larry Connor (NOAA) with an auger for drilling holes to measure sea ice thickness

An uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) with imagers for sea ice studies

Fieldwork on the Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. Photo by Karen Alley.

Pallas GAW station, northern Finland

Inside Pallas station

Halley Research Station, Antarctica

South Pole Station

Qilianshan station, China

Barrow station, Alaska

Sonnblick station, Austria

Base Orcadas, Argentina (between Argentina and Antarctica)

Ice under the Mackinaw Bridge (Michigan, USA)

Alaskan volcano

Denali seen from Anchorage with Mt Foraker on the left, 125 mi (201 km) away

Anchorage, Alaska, February 2024

Antarctic glaciers, ice streams, and mountains

Antarctic ice sheet

Canadian Archipelago

Greenland

Jakobshavn Glacier

Mt McKinley from the air

Mt Mckinley

Northern_Lights

Sea ice and icebergs

Sea ice lead

Sled dog team and iceberg

Tidal overflow

Transantarctic Mountains

Winter sea ice terrain of the Beaufort Sea

Wrangell Mountains

Wrangell Mountains

Wrangell Mountains

Wrangell Mountains

Snow-covered mountains and a marina at Seward, Alaska

Nome, Alaska

Mao of the Arctic

Map of Antarctica

Polar bear

Polar bear

Polar bear family

Polar bear

Polar bears

Polar bears

Polar bear

Polar bears

Sled dog and polar bear

Musk ox

Musk ox

Beluga whale

Snowy owl

Wolf

Arctic Fox

Penguins

Polar bear

Seal

Sled dogs

Ice sculpture in Salekhard, Russia

WSL-SLF station, Davos, Switzerland

Salmon snow sculpture, Anchorage, Alaska, 2024

Glacier snout, Greenland

Icebergs and fishing village, Greenland

Sea ice lead

Snowmobile in northern Finland

St Elias

USCG icebreaker in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Wrangell Mountains

Matanuska River and Glacier, Alaska

Sandhill Crane in the snow, Wisconsin

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