Measuring the thickness of the ice will help scientists discover how quickly the icecap is melting.

BBC: Polar explorers

Mr. THOMAS DEUTSCH (Deputy Executive Director, American Securitization Forum): The securitization markets are as frozen as a polar icecap.

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The ship is here on a scientific research mission, and to document the effects of climate warming on the world's largest island and second largest icecap.

CNN: Polar blog: 'There's something afoot in the Arctic'

Over the last twenty years more than 5000 kilometers of ice has passed beneath my skis during numerous expeditions to both poles, as well as treks across Greenland, Spitsbergen, Iceland, Ellesmere Island and the Patagonian Icecap.

CNN: The story