NASA Duck Flotilla Deployed

Baffin Island residents watch for rubber ducks in NASA study, CBC

“Fishing crews, pilots and residents of eastern Baffin Island are being asked to watch for rubber duckies — not bobbing in their bathtubs, but drifting in the Davis Strait as part of a NASA study on climate change. Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s jet propulsion laboratory have placed 90 rubber ducks in the Jakobshavn Glacier near Ilulissat in western Greenland. The researchers hope to track the toy ducks’ journey away from the moving, melting glacier. They’re asking for help from Nunavummiut, who they believe will eventually start seeing the ducks floating in Baffin Bay. “Just send us an e-mail with the subject ‘Found rubber duck, please contact,’ and we’d be very happy to get those,” NASA researcher Alberto Behar told CBC News on Wednesday.”