Frost Byte, Volume 5, Issue 4

News

Stay tuned for updates to the library’s intranet web pages. Natasha and Gloria are working to improve the look of the site.

Allaina has been asked to teach an Introduction to Archives class for the School of Library and Information Management’s current Colorado cohort. The course will be offered in the summer semester here in Denver through the Emporia State University distance program.

Staff Report

Last week Allaina attended the AMS/ASLI annual conference in New Orleans. As you might imagine, much of the AMS talk was about hurricanes. The ASLI conference was not so focused on the weather but more about the data about the weather and the role of libraries and data centers in managing and disseminating the data. The usual suspects were in attendance, librarians and data managers from Alaska, UCAR, NOAA, NASA, and other government associations and universities.

The Wednesday keynote address was “Divine Wind: the History and Science of Hurricanes” by Kerry Emmanuel. It was standing room only for his talk, which focused on historical aspects of hurricanes and also a bit of data collection. On Thursday, Allaina was part of a six person panel discussion titled “Discovery, Access, Preservation: Libraries’ Roles in Data Services.” It may have been more appropriate for a USO representative to have been a speaker, but given the 7 minute speaking time, there wasn’t much time to say all that we do at NSIDC.

In the Exhibit Hall, Allaina and Florence met Dr. Richard Crouthamel retired from NOAA and now executive director of the non-profit International Environmental Data Rescue Organization (IEDRO). He was wearing a t-shirt made by his granddaughter that said “Eat. Sleep. Rescue data.” Unfortunately, he didn’t have any for sale. IEDRO’s mission is to assist the scientific and educational communities by: locating and rescuing weather and other environmental data stored on perishable media; digitizing historical environmental data; ensuring the digitized data is available for operational and research applications to its host country as well as the international community of scientists.

Richard (Armstrong) and Allaina have been in contact with Dr. Crouthamel regarding a collection of about 1,000 historic glacier photographs. The collection of glass plates is currently stored at The Regional Museum in Maggiorino Borgatello, Puntas Arenas, Chile. He is attempting to negotiate the transfer of these images to NSIDC.

There are a couple of BAMS meeting issues, as well as IEDRO newsletters, in the library for anyone who might be interested.

New Items in the Library

Journals & Reports

Physics Today, v. 61, iss. 1

Arctic, v. 60, iss. 4

Journal of alpine research(La revue de geographie), v. 95, iss 2, 3

Seppyo, v. 69, iss. 6

Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, v. 112, iss. C11

Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, v. 112, iss. D21

EOS, v. 89, iss. 3

Frost Byte, vol. 5, iss. 3

News

Besides the frigid weather, not much new happened last week in the library or analog archives. Gloria is working on the intranet and internet web sites, and she expects to upload the new look this week.

She is also making plans to update the search screen on the library catalog. Stay tuned for a new look and better functionality (hopefully) the next time you log in to the catalog.

Staff News

Allaina is out of the office this week. She will return on the 28th.

Policy Reminders, etc.

To check out journals or reprints, just fill out the appropriate form on the library table. When you return items, just drop them in the wire baskets. The librarians will take care of marking out your name on the form.

New Items in the Library

Journals & Reports
Arizona Basin Outlook Report Jan. 1, 2008
Australian Antarctic Magazine, no. 13 (2007)
Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, vol. 112, iss. D22
Polar Record, vol. 44, iss. 1, number 228
In Focus, vol. 7, iss. 3
SCAR Reports #30, #31, #32
Polar and Glaciological Abstracts, vol. 18, iss. 3
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 2
Polar Science, vol. 1, iss. 2-4
Materialy Gliatsiologicheskikh Issledovanii = Data of Glaciological Studies, no. 102

Books, Reprints, and other Formats
Global Outlook for Ice & Snow

Permafrost in Switzerland 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 edited by Daniel Vonder Mühll, et al.

Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies : The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience. Vol. 2:Hydrologic Processes edited by Ming-ko Woo

Frost Byte, volume 5, issue 2

News

You now have a new tool on our intranet home page. At the very bottom of the page, you will find a link to a request form, which you can use for either a purchase or research request. We are also working on an updated intranet page, so stay tuned for the newest that the library & Igloo have to offer.

We have also updated the Electronic Publications page with new items of interest. New links include, but are not limited to, the SCAR December 2007 Newsletter, Glacier Mass Balance Data for 2006, and the Arctic Environment in Historical Perspective.

Staff Report

Allaina will be working from home Thursday the 17th, and will be out of the office the 18th returning on Monday the 28th.

Policy Reminders, etc.

To access the library catalog on the library’s computer, just click on the IE icon on the desktop. Sign in (user is catalog and there is no password) and begin searching! If you have any problems, please just pop into our office and ask.

New Items in the Library

Books, Reprints, and other Formats
The First Crossing of Greenland by Fridtjof Nansen.

The Voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas by F. Leopold McClintock.

With Captain James Cook in the Antarctic and Pacific : the Private Journal of James Burney edited by Beverly Hooper.

The Log of the Scotia by William Speirs Bruce.

Canadian Polar Year Expeditions 1932-33 Vol. 1 Meteorology.

Frost Byte, Volume 5, Issue 1

News

The Glacier Photograph Collection is in a constant state of updates. The latest is a new special collection of glacier survey reports from Rocky Mountain National Park completed between 1932 and 1952. Some of the earlier reports were only recently discovered in the library and will be added as soon as they are returned from the contractor. Check out the new collection of PDF files of the complete reports as well as the individual photographs from the reports: http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_photo/glacier_reports.html

The next batch of glacier photographs will be a batch of IGY photos taken by Bill Field and his team between 1957 and 1959. Some of these photos were previously added to the collection and can be located in the database by using the date range as the search criteria. Also see the DAHLI page for more about these images. http://nsidc.org/dahli/igyglacierphotos.html This page is also where the updates will be posted.

Staff Report

The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has accepted a proposal for which Allaina is a participant. Their annual conference will be in August. The title of the presentation is “Leveraging Outreach to Further Your Goals: Tips for Small Repositories”.

Next week Allaina will be working from home on the 17^th before leaving for the Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) annual conference, held in conjunction with the American Meteorological Society annual conference, in New Orleans. She will be presenting “Data Services at the National Snow and Ice Data Center” to the ASLI group.

Policy Reminders, etc.

If you use the library after hours, please remember to restart the computer, turn off the lights and close the door when you leave.

New Items in the Library

Journals & Reports

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 46, iss. 1

EOS, v. 89, iss. 1

La Revue de géographie = Journal of Alpine Research, vol. 95, iss. 4

Books, Reprints, and other Formats

Climate change 2007 : mitigation of climate change edited by Bert Metz, et al.

The Lost men : the harrowing saga of Shackleton’s Ross Sea party by Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Glaciation & periglaciation by Jane Knight

Phytoplankton quantity as an indicator of eutrophication in Finnish coastal waters by Pirkko Kauppila

Frost Byte, volume 4, issue 52

News

This is our last issue for volume 4 of Frost Byte, and boy, do we have a lot of new items here in the library. See below for a list of some of them.

We are asking everyone with an interest to review a book we currently have “on approval.” The title is Fuzzy Surfaces in GIS and Geographical Analysis : Theory, Analytical Methods, Algorithms, and Applications. The book is in the librarians’ office, so feel free to stop by and peruse it. Once you have, please give us your feedback.

Staff Report
Gloria is in the office all of this week, but she will be out on Friday the 11th.

Policy Reminders, etc.

The due date for all items checked out in January is April 30, 2008.

New Items in the Library

Journals & Reports

Geophysical Research Letters, v. 34, iss. 21
Meteorologiia I GidrologiiaI, # 11-12 (2007)
Geografiska Annaler, series A Physical Geography, v. 89A, iss.4
Mariners Weather Log, v. 51, iss. 3
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, v. 18, iss. 4
Polish Polar Research, v. 28, iss. 3
EOS, v. 88, iss. 50, 51, 52
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing : Special section on Ocean SAR 2006
v. 33, iss. 1-5 (on CD ROM)
Earth Observer, v. 19, iss. 6
Polar Research in Tromso, 2007
La Revue de Géographie Alpine – Journal of Alpine Research, v. 94, iss. 1, 3
Mountain Research and Development, v. 27, iss. 4

Books, Reprints, Etc.
We have so many new books, donated and purchased, that we are listing only a few here. To see all of our new items, stop by the library!

Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies : The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience. Volume 1 : Atmosphere Dynamics by Ming-ko Woo.

MySQL in a Nutshell by Russell J. T. Dyer.

Open Source GIS : a GRASS GIS Approach, 3rd edition by Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova.

The North Pole by Robert T. Peary. 1910 edition. [Rare Books]

Northward over the “Great Ice” by Robert E. Peary [Rare Books]

With Nansen in the North by Hjalmar Johansen.

Sensing Our Planet : NASA Earth Science Research Features 2007 editors Jane Beitler; Stephanie Renfrow