Frost Byte, Volume 5, Issue 8

News

Glacier Photograph Collection updates includes a collection of 79 images taken by Fred D. Ayres in the 1950s in Peru. Next batches to be added will be IGY glacier photographs taken by Bill Field and his team. Thanks to the NOAA team and especially to the students – Michael Russell and the students in the Message Center – who have been working diligently to QC the images and create metadata for these collections.

Staff Report

Next Monday, Allaina will be meeting with staff at the American Alpine Club to determine ways we can collaborate in the future.

Reminder

To check out a book, just sign and date the book card. Drop the card in the clear acrylic box on the library table.

To check out reprints or journals, fill in the sign-out sheets found on the library table.

To return any item, drop it in the wire baskets by the library door. Gloria will take care of indicating the return on sign-out sheets or book card.

Notes

Thanks to all who contribute to the candy fund!! It is very much appreciated!

New Items in the Library

Journals & Reports

Neige et Avalanches, #120

Exchanges, v. 13, # 1 (no. 44)

Flux News, iss. 5 Jan. 2008

EOS, v. 89, iss. 7

Water Conditions in California, Report 1 Feb. 2008

La revue de géographie = Journal of alpine research, v. 95, iss. 1

Books, Reprints, and other Media

The Role of Mesoscale features in a wintertime Great Lakes cyclone by Steven R. Silberberg (Reprint)

Antarctic ecology : from genes to ecosystmes. Two parts [special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B Biological Sciences] v. 362, iss. 1477 and 1488.

Frost byte, volume 5, issue 7

News

You will find a number of theses and dissertations on the shelf holding the recent copies of EOS (next to the new journals’ shelves). These items are those completed by Roger’s students over the years. You may borrow them for the full three month period.

This coming week, Gloria will replace the current intranet home page with an updated (and hopefully more intuitive) web page. She will announce the change on the bulletin board.

Another “coming soon” addition is “IM Your Librarian.” Gloria is working on adding Yahoo IM to the Frost Byte blog to provide you better service through instant messaging. Stay tuned for this new information access tool.

Staff Report

Allaina visited the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum (http://www.bwamm.org/) during their grand opening this weekend. She has plans to meet with their director of marketing to discuss possible collaborations. Even though their museum is named for Washburn, they do not hold any of his photographs in the museum or the AAC library. Allaina hopes that we might be able to display some of our Washburn photos to promote NSIDC’s historic glacier photo collection.

The American Alpine Club has an event that may be of interest to NSIDCers this Friday. “Climbatology” will feature comparative glacier photographs. See their web site for more details. (http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pages/page/155)

Reminder

When you use items in the library, please do not re-shelve them. Just put them on the library table, lay them flat on a shelf, or drop them in the wire baskets by the door. We will gladly put them back on the shelf once we have noted their use for our stats.

Notes

Thanks to all who contribute to the candy fund!! It is very much appreciated!

New Items in the Library
Journals & Reports
Geophysical Research Letters, v. 34, iss. 24
Il Polo, v. 62, #3
Nimbus, #43/44, #45/46
Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, v. 112, iss. C12
EOS, v. 89, iss. 6
Polar Record, v. 44, #229
Arctic, Antarctic, & Alpine Research, v. 40, iss. 1
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Special issue on the Canadian Wetland Inventory, v. 33, supplement 1 (on CD-ROM)
Pages News, v. 16, iss. 1
Physics Today, v. 61, iss. 2
Cold Regions Science & Technology, v. 51, iss. 1

Books, Reprints, & Other Items
Climate Change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability edited by Martin Parry, et al.

The Joint 2007 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference and the 15th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Satellite Meteorology & Oceanography Conference : proceedings. (CD-ROM)

Daily Aerological Cross Sections : Pole to Pole along meridian 75° W for the IGY Period. Weather Bureau, U. S. Department of Commerce (issues: July 1957, August 1957, November 1957, December 1957, January 1958, and February 1958)

Atlas of Climatic Maps series 1-10 by the Meteorological Branch, Dept. of Transport, Canada.

Aviation-climate characteristics of the Northern Hemisphere : Cloudiness by Z.M. Makhover, L. A. Nudel’man. (in Russian)

Frost Byte, Volume 5, Issue 6

News

Work continues on the scanning of a collection of aerial photographs donated to NSIDC by Bruce Molnia and taken by Austin Post. This collection is one large reel of film containing tiny copies (less than 1”x1”) of the aerials photographs. Kristin has been meticulously cutting the images from the reel, indexing them, packaging and shipping them off to our CDMP contractor for scanning. In addition to scanning, the contractor is attempting, with our assistance, to match the Photo Index metadata to the aerial photos. This is proving to be more difficult than we hoped. Stay tuned for more news and updates as they develop.

Staff Report

Allaina will be attending the grand opening of the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum this weekend. See below for more details about the museum.

Reminder

All items checked out in February are due on May 31, 2008. You will find a notice above the library table with the due date for most items. Check our policies page for other special items with different borrowing periods.

The grand opening of the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum is this weekend, February 16 – 17th. Check out their blog at http://bwamm.blogspot.com/ for more details about the weekend’s events or visit the American Alpine Club website.

Notes

Thanks to all who contribute to the candy fund!! It is very much appreciated!

New Items in the Library

Journals & Reports

Journal of Geographical Research – Earth Surfaces, v. 112, iss. F4
EOS, v. 89, iss. 5
Colorado Water, v. 25, iss. 1
Polar Geography, v. 30, iss. 1-2, 3-4

Frost Byte, vol. 5, iss. 5

News

An update on the intranet pages. We are still working on the updates, but you can still read the page and click on the links.

Kristin (our student helper) will be correcting a number of call numbers over the next few weeks. If the item you want is on it’s spine on the shelf, let Gloria know when you check it out. She will make sure that the call number is corrected once you return it. Thanks in advance for your patience and cooperation.

Reminder


For help finding a paper or to recommend a purchase for the library, you will find a form on our intranet page that does both and sends the information to the library: library requests.

Notes

Related events: The grand opening of the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum is February 16 – 17th. Check out their blog at http://bwamm.blogspot.com/ for more details about the weekend’s events or visit the American Alpine Club website.

Thanks to everyone who contributes to the candy basket fund! We know that everyone appreciates your help.

Many thanks go to those who donate their issues of current journals to the library. Due to the subscription costs for libraries, we would be unable to subscribe to these journals. Roger Barry, Florence Fetterer, and Ron Weaver are among contributors

New Items in the Library
Journals & Reports
Fennia, vol. 185, #1
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 4
Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, v. 112, iss. D23
Gewex News, vol. 17, iss. 4
Ice, #144
Journal of Glaciology, vol. 53, iss. 182
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 34, iss. 23
Antarctic Record, vol. 51, iss. 3
Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung #562: Tolerance limits and survival potential of methanogenic archaea from Siberian permafrost under extreme living conditions by Daria Morozova.
Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung #563: Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics: Drifts and Ridging in Numerical Models and Observations by Torge Martin.
Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung #564: Characterization of the snowmelt period on Antarctic sea ice during summer through remote sensing and field measurements by Sascha Willmes.

Books, Reprints, & Other Media
Borehole Climatology : a new method on how to reconstruct climate by Louise Bodri and Vladimir Cermack.

Report to the International Niagara Board of Control on the 2006-07 operation of the Lake Erie Niagara River ice boom by the International Niagara Working Committee.

Earth's changing climate. Part 1 taught by Richard Wolfson. (DVD)

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.