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Data from dog sleds

In the spring of 2008, Dr Jeremy Wilkinson from the Scottish Marine Institute, was one of a number of international scientists who got together to take a series of scientific measurements on the sea ice around Qaanaaq, the most northerly town in Greenland. They wanted to find out about the local sea-ice conditions by measuring changes in its thickness.
This work is important because satellite technology cannot currently measure ice thickness directly. The scientists' approach was much more down to earth: they hired local hunters to take them out on their dog sleds so they could measure and document sea-ice conditions over as large an area as possible.

Read this full story on NERC's Planet Earth website...



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