These remote, icy reaches on Earth may be far, far, far from your ordinary days, but they play a vital role in the character and future of your home planet. Photo by Michael Studinger/NASA
For the month of April we're back on the road. Or…off, off, off road, as the case may be! Cameras in hand and hands firmly in gloves, I'll be traveling to a remote airstrip in Western Greenland called Kangerlussuaq. Embedded with a top-notch team of NASA researchers, the gig is all about telling stories about how to study changed in global ice cover. To do this, I'm embedded with the research team, flying low altitudes transects over remote reaches of polar ice in a retrofitted P3 Otter airplane like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Star Trek.
The mission is called IceBridge. For news about the project visit NASA's official social media sites at
facebook.com/NasaOperationIcebridge
and on Twitter
@NASA_ICE
For my own, more personal dispatches from the field, you can follow me in Greenland at (assuming my frozen fingers finagle some Wi-Fi)
facebook.com/michael.starobin
on Twitter
@michaelstarobin
And, of course, the weekly blog will not be interrupted, dear readers. Each Monday, check in our latest thoughts about creativity, right here at 1AU Global Media.