Heidi Roop
About
Expeditions:
Occupation:
Researcher
Organization:
University of New Hampshire/ Desert Research Institute
Heidi Roop grew up exploring the formerly glaciated landscape of Wisconsin, and today continues her love for studying glaciers and climate variability through research in Antarctica and alpine regions around the world. Spending the austral summer of 2010-2011 in Antarctica, it will be her second season working as a part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide project. When she is not in Antarctica, she works throughout the Sierra Nevada studying climate variability and hydrology for the United States Geological Survey.
Heidi Roop's Content
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February 3, 2011 Goodbye Antarctica: Mystery Photo #11 Solved! |
Read Full Journal | 23 February 2011 |
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February 2, 2011 Mystery Photo 11: Time to head North! |
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January 29, 2011 Was that a penguin? |
Read Full Journal | 21 February 2011 |
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January 29, 2011 What I'll miss about WAIS Divide |
Read Full Journal | 10 February 2011 |
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January 29, 2011 I'm Leaving on a Cold Deck |
Read Full Journal | 10 February 2011 |
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January 27, 2011 The 10,000 mile ice journey |
Read Full Journal | 10 February 2011 |
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January 28, 2011 3,331 Cheers for WAIS Divide! |
Read Full Journal | 30 January 2011 |
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January 26, 2011 Internet down! |
Read Full Journal | 26 January 2011 |
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January 24, 2011 Mystery Photo #10- Solved |
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January 22, 2011 Mystery Photo #9- Solved |
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| West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core | Web Link | 28 November 2011 |
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Ice excitement! |
Greenland Education Tour 2011 | February 24, 2011 - 9:48am |
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Svalbard crew? |
High Arctic Change 2011 | February 24, 2011 - 9:25am |
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Awesome journals! |
Human Impacts in Antarctica 2011 | February 24, 2011 - 9:21am |
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Hey there neighbor! |
CReSIS Aerial Survey of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet | October 20, 2009 - 5:41pm |
Amy, thanks for your questions. The plane temperature from WAIS to McMurdo is about -10C. The ice cores take a ship back to the States. All of the cores are transported in a refrigeration unit called a SafeCore. The temperature is maintained around -25C.
The time it takes to collect an...{read more}
Katie,
Thank you for your thoughtful question! One of the most rewarding aspects of being in the field is the close community that develops. The folks in camp become like family. The rewards of the science are multifaceted; we still have lots to learn but we were able to overcome lots of...{read more}
Katie,
Thank you for your questions. Getting to WAIS Divide takes quite a bit of time. Just flying to Antarctica takes several days and several long flights. Preparing gear and getting proper training also adds time when trying to get to our field site. However, the project it self takes...{read more}
Lollie and Redd School Students,
Thank you for the great questions!
Being in the field is a challenge but rewards are great too. Of course, I miss my family but in many ways, the folks here at WAIS are my family too! If I could do anything, I would probably like to go for a trail...{read more}
Adian,
What a great question! In Antarctica, we have to change quite a bit about our daily lives to stay alive.
The most important things are:
1) wearing LOTS of clothes to stay warm
2) Eating lots of yummy food (I like to eat cookies!).
I hope you are doing well...{read more}
Deanna,
Thanks for your note and the congrats! I certainly feel privileged to be back on the ice for a second time! I guess I am officially an ice sheet junkie now! Although there are many similarities to last year, I notice that I am absorbing different facets of life down here this...{read more}
Thanks Janet! It is such a thrill to be back in Antarctica! I didn't expect to have the opportunity again. It is great to bump into familiar faces this year, many of them from PolarTREC! Check out my response to Deanna for more on my return to the ice!
Happy New Year'!
-Heidi
{read more}Hi Lollie! The weather is starting to settle into true summer out here on the ice sheet. We have recently had a bout of +25F temps! It was never quite that warm last year, but no one is complaining :) Generally, at this time of year we have clear skies, temperatures around +5F and winds around 5...{read more}
Hi Morgan! Back in McMurdo, where the ice tube was located, anyone who went to an outdoor safety lecture was allowed to go into the observation tube. Before going to the tube everyone needed to check out with the Fire Station, and take a radio. When you returned you needed to check back in with...{read more}
Sarah, we are hopeful that the WAIS Divide record will provide climate information over the last 100,000 years. Based on initial estimate of the ice core age, we started drilling ice this season, at a depth of 2,560 meters, that is ~20,000 years old. We are currently at a drill depth of 2,800...{read more}