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20,000 channels of seismic data reveal Arctic climate change

08 Aug 2021 Margaret Harris
Taken from the 2021 issue of Physics World Instrumentation and Vacuum Briefing, where it appeared under the headline "Listening to the rhythm of the climate".

In February 2021 geophysicist Rob Abbott spent a week on the North Slope of Alaska, US, using a novel instrument to study sea ice. He spoke to Margaret Harris about the challenges of working in this harsh environment and what he and his colleagues hope to learn

Oliktok Point in Alaska
Arctic morning Sunrise at Oliktok Point, Alaska, US during the week when Rob Abbott and colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories began collecting acoustic data from the Arctic seafloor. (Courtesy: Kyle Jones, Sandia National Laboratories)
Let’s start with the project. What were you doing up on the North Slope? We wanted to try a techni

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