July 9, 2021

Virtual Tours Through the Ice Using Everyday Tools

Researchers set up field technology beside a glacier with a blue world cloud above their heads — This screen capture is from Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center’s Virtual Ice Explorer tour called “Huascarán, Yungay, Peru,” showing scientists at work on the 2019 Ice Core Paleoclimatology expedition to Mount Huascarán. Credit: Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center.

The Byrd Center's Education and Outreach team is training scientists to create immersive virtual field experiences of glaciers, sea ice, and snow.