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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Clare Gaffey — Arctic scientist
Description: Clare Gaffey is pictured in October in the Arctic on board the Norseman II, a converted king crab boat, holding a bottle with a water sample that would eventually be analyzed as part of a project studying the effects of global warming. Sometimes she worked 24 hours with no sleep but the camaraderie with other scientists on board the ship was sustaining, she said. Gaffey is now back at Clark University in Massachusetts in her third year of a Ph.D. program in geography. The Distributed Biological Observatory project has for years been documenting the thinning of sea ice, the rising...