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Rubber Duckies For Global Warming Research

Posted November 17, 2008 8:54 AM

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The Wall Street Journal has a look at global warming research using rubber duckies. The toys have been employed in tracking ocean currents since 1992; but recently NASA robotics expert Alberto Behar released 90 yellow rubber ducks into the melt water flowing down a chasm in a Greenland glacier. "Each duck was imprinted with an email address and, in three languages, the offer of a reward. If all goes well, Dr. Behar hopes that one day they will emerge 30 miles or so away at the glacier's edge in the open water of Disko Bay near Ilulissat, bobbing brightly amid the icebergs north of the Arctic Circle, each one a significant clue to just how warming temperatures may speed the glacier's slide to the sea.

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11/18/2008 3:42 PM

"Rubber duckie, you're the one..." A wonderful low-tech demonstration of how to do field research! LOVE it...

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I'll second the sentiment!!!

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11/21/2008 10:12 PM

The ducks are the smart ones. They don't have to use global warming green wash to get their funding to study glacier movement.

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12/01/2008 5:12 AM

Wonderful little fluffy yellow ducks - a joy to behold.

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12/24/2008 8:07 AM

truly touching............so much goodwill and no orange....makes a duck want to get churched (why do I get the feeling I'm getting set up here)

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12/24/2008 8:32 AM

Mebbe 'cos it's so seldom that we don't get set up here? Just a guess... At any rate, I'd hold off on the churching for a bit, just in case.

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