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Sideblog [wip] | cryosphere) ecology & other

[chandr-a]

Simona Kossak

[briargeese]

Frozen jaws on Lake Michigan, dripping icicles.

[palehorseskull]

[vintagewildlife]

Guillemots By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

[fragrantblossoms]

Ukichiro Nakaya, Yataro Sekido, General Classification of Snow Crystals and their Frequency of Occurrence., Reprinted from the Journal of Faculty of Science, The Hokkaido Imperial University, 1936. （中谷宇吉郎雪の科学館蔵） ---- Ukichiro Nakaya, Snow Crystals: Natural and Artificial, Harvard University Press, 1954.（中谷宇吉郎雪の科学館蔵）

[hemligplats]

[glacial-dreams]

Antarctica

[jetix]

2013-12-16

[glacial-dreams]

Giant crater found in Yamal peninsula, Siberia.

[p: Vladimir Puskarev/Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration]

[vintagewildlife]

Polar bear mother with cubs By: Co Rentmeester From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Bears and Other Carnivores 1976

[glacial-dreams]

Dead muskox calf, Longyearbyen, Svalbard. 1963.

[glacial-dreams]

Svalbard, ca. 1950 - 1960.

"Bjørnar's father skins a seal. Picture from Bjørnar Nilsen, son of Johannes Nilsen Støpseth who came up [to Svalbard] in 1948 and was here for 40 years."

[glacial-dreams]

Gullybreen, Svalbard. 2005.

[wrotten]

Schellenberger Eishoehle/Ice Cave Berchtesgaden Alps, Germany

[glacial-dreams]

The elusive “glacier bear” of northwestern B.C. and southeastern Alaska

Glacier bears, also known as blue bears, are a rare colour phase of black bear. The bear’s striking pelage ranges in colour from silvery blue-grey to charcoal-grey to black with silvery tips. Even the colour of an individual glacier bear can vary, with lighter tones on the bear’s back and shoulders and dark hair on the legs and belly.

They live in a remote patch of wilderness that includes the extreme northwestern tip of British Columbia, southwestern Yukon and the southeastern coast of Alaska from Juneau to Yakutat.

[novemb-r]

Biodiverse microbes live in different habitats on the ice surface. 

[sovietpostcards]

The first Antarctic expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Photo by Alexander Kochetkov (1956).