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This weekend on the UWS offers a variety of activities including Columbia Women's Basketball game against Cornell, a guided viewing of the supermoon with Urban Park Rangers, free tours of the research vessel R/V Robert Gray at Hudson River Park, and numerous movie and Broadway options, making it a vibrant cultural and recreational weekend.
Scientists are urging the U.S. to reconsider terminating the lease of the Nathaniel B. Palmer, the country's only Antarctic research vessel, emphasizing its critical role in climate research, sea ice studies, and understanding glaciers like Thwaites, with concerns that losing it would diminish U.S. scientific leadership in the region.
A Chinese research icebreaker, Xue Long 2, was detected off the Alaskan coast within the U.S. Arctic's Extended Continental Shelf, prompting monitoring by U.S. and Canadian military forces amid heightened Arctic military activity involving Russian and Chinese aircraft.
An uncrewed research vessel, Ran, owned by the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, has gone missing under Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" during an expedition in January. The 23-foot-long vehicle, which can travel to depths of 1,600 feet, was on its second visit to the Thwaites Glacier and has provided crucial data about the colossal glacier's climate implications. Despite extensive search efforts, the vessel has not been located, and its batteries are now dead. The Thwaites Glacier, roughly the size of Florida, has the potential to significantly raise global sea levels if it were to melt completely.
The Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP), an innovative research vessel operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been retired after over 60 years of service. FLIP was a unique platform that could transition from a horizontal barge to a vertical spar platform, providing stability and minimizing the effects of ocean swells for scientific experiments. It played a crucial role in physical oceanographic research, producing high-quality data and setting a gold standard for ocean modeling. FLIP's legacy will live on as one of its booms will be mounted onto a pier for continued use in deploying instruments into the water.
The R/V Petrel, a research vessel that was previously owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and was used to discover several WWII wrecks, tipped over about 45 degrees while in dry dock in Edinburgh, Scotland. 21 people were taken to the hospital with injuries and another 12 were treated at the dock and released. The ship had been laid up in Scotland until the Navy bought it in September 2022 for $12.4 million. The cause of the incident is unknown.