{"id":686,"date":"2014-10-01T04:52:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/?p=686"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T14:24:09","slug":"seeing-greenland-after-having-been-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/2014\/10\/01\/seeing-greenland-after-having-been-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Greenland after having been there"},"content":{"rendered":"

After going to Greenland this past August, I had even more questions after seeing Chasing Ice<\/a> the second time around than I did the first time I saw it. This past week Jim Balog<\/a> visted Dickinson College to receive the Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism<\/a> and many of us had multiple opportunities to interact with him. What I find most interesting about his work is the questions of scale, which he raises for us. Even after having seen the Greenland ice sheet, I have a hard time visualizing the scale of the ice Balog is photographing.<\/p>\n

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Photograph taken from Jim Balog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The photo (right) of black dots in ice exemplifies this idea for me. Take a look at it and think to your self: how big are those dots? Once you think you have an idea, click here to explore the Dark Snow projec<\/a>t and see some pictures that have those same style of features in them with scales. (Hint: those a very small features, on the order of centimeters).<\/p>\n

Even after going to Greenland it is still hard to imagine how massive these glacial features really are. Balog does a nice job of helping his audience visualize this with comparisons to lower Manhattan, the empire state building and the capitol building, yet I still don\u2019t think most people can gain an appreciation for the enormity of the ice. I have included several pictures from my trip to Greenland below with relatively small icebergs with boats in the pictures for scale. Can you see the boats?<\/p>\n

If you are interesting in viewing Chasing Ice, see Extreme Ice<\/a> first, it is free!<\/p>\n

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Can you see the boats amongst the small glaciers?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Small glacial tongue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After going to Greenland this past August, I had even more questions after seeing Chasing Ice the second time around than I did the first time I saw it. This past week Jim Balog visted Dickinson College to receive the Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism and many of us had multiple opportunities to interact … <\/p>\n

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