{"id":362,"date":"2017-01-16T02:26:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T02:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gso.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/?p=362"},"modified":"2017-01-16T02:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T02:26:44","slug":"the-great-ice-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/the-great-ice-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Ice Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an incredibly windy night at sea, we\u2019ve reached the largest ice shelf in Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf. This massive piece of ice spans 188,000 square miles (487,000 km<sup>2<\/sup>) and rises about 160 ft (50 m) above the water surface. If we were to look below the surface, we would find another 1,600 ft (500 m) of ice extending below. That\u2019s one large piece of ice! Sinead couldn\u2019t have said it better when she remarked that \u201call ice cubes aspire to this.\u201d Hopefully we can find some diatoms lurking in the surrounding waters. Wish us luck!<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Approaching the Ross Ice Shelf aboard the R\/V Nathanial B. Palmer (left) and the night shift crew (right) enjoying \u201cnight\u201d in Antarctica. From left to right: Sinead, Dan, Kerry, and Stephanie. And yes, we&#8217;re still in the land of the midnight sun.\u00a0 These photos were taken at 9:30 pm.\u00a0 Posted by Stephanie Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an incredibly windy night at sea, we\u2019ve reached the largest ice shelf in Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf. This massive piece of ice spans 188,000 square miles (487,000 km2) and rises about 160 ft (50 m) above the water surface. If we were to look below the surface, we would find another 1,600 ft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antarctic-cruise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}