Temperatures rising above freezing in the Arctic is a crucial threshold. “That’s the point where everything changes,” said Marco Tedesco, a geophysicist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “This is extremely exceptional.”
Chris Wiggins, a Data Science Institute professor and Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times, has helped launch nytDEMO, a group at the NYT devoted to bringing data-science prototypes into products.
Marco Tedesco, who studies snow and ice at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is leading an investigation into the properties of snow in the eastern U.S. Citizen scientists can contribute by gathering data to help uncover how snow is changing over time.