NASA Video of the Cryosphere

An anonymous reader writes "From the shrinking Arctic sea ice to retreating glaciers and collapsing Antarctic ice shelves, the cryosphere is an important and ongoing news story. NASA satellites captured these snow and ice changes worldwide to help scientists figure out what is happening. A unique global view of all of these scientific issues is presented in a new NASA video, which is being released at this meeting. The video tour takes you around the world to see what is happening through state-of-the-art animations of the latest satellite data. NASA scientist Waleed Abdalati and television producer Michael Starobin will answer questions about new cryosphere research and how the visualizations can be used to illustrate the science."

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"Released at this meeting"

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For those wondering what "this meeting" is all about (since the submitter just copied a paragraph from a press release), it is the American Geophysical Union conference that is held every December in San Francisco. 11,000 geoscientists from around the world meet for a week to discuss and share the latest research in the fields of geology, seismology, paleoclimatology, geophysics, among many others.

NASA has quite a few workshops and Q&A sessions this week, which you can find out here. Unfortunately, if you're not an AGU member, you'll have to pay a very hefty cost to get into the conference (upwards of $200 USD).

Other interesting news that has come out of the AGU meeting this week that you might have heard of are:

* San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth research and "nonvolcanic" tremors.
* Earth is potentially out of new farm land.
* New insights into the rate of ozone recovery.
* Southeast Asia faces another danger of a large tsunami in the next few decades
* Cassino spots icy plumes on Saturn