Government Shutdown Would Put Arctic Study on Ice: Scientific American

A shutdown would cut short a key NASA field campaign to survey Arctic land and sea ice, and a larger project it is part of. The measure now funding federal operations expires on April 8
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For the past three weeks, NASA researchers and crew have been surveying Arctic land and sea ice using specially equipped aircraft.
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Reassembling IceBridge scientists, planes and crew in Greenland would be "a pretty big production," he said. "It takes several flights just for delivering people and cargo."