Going, Going, GONE: Two Arctic Ice Caps Have Disappeared

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Going, Going, GONE: Two Arctic Ice Caps Have Disappeared
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🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: All that’s left are some photographs and a lot of memories.”

Mark Serreze, now director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, conducting research on one of Canada's St. Patrick Bay ice caps as a graduate student in 1982. He and a colleague have just confirmed that they've melted and completely disappeared. Two little Arctic ice caps that Mark Serreze studied as a graduate student in the early 1980s might not have been as grand and dramatic as other features of our planet's cryosphere, but to him they nonetheless were quite special.

Serreze first visited the ice caps in 1982. The region is a polar desert — a very dry, very cold place. He was drawn to do the work in this inhospitable environment because "I grew up in Maine where we had real winters and I loved snow and ice." Decades later, he knew that warming temperatures were bringing about the demise of these features, known as the St. Patrick Bay ice caps. Gathering all the evidence, he and colleagues publishedposted today on the NSIDC website explains:

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