Snow has Thinned on Arctic Sea Ice
![UW graduate student Melinda Webster uses a probe to measure snow depth and verify NASA airborne data. She is walking on sea ice near Barrow, Alaska in March 2012. Her backpack holds electronics that power the probe and record the data. Image-Chris Linder / Univ. of Washington Snow has Thinned on Arctic Sea Ice](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/image13-08-2014-22.56.05-e1522537633980.jpg)
From research stations drifting on ice floes to high-tech aircraft radar, scientists have been tracking the depth of snow that accumulates on Arctic sea ice for almost a century. Now that people are more concerned than ever about what is happening at the poles, research led by the University of Washington and NASA confirms that […]