A researcher at BYU was part of a study looking at large Antarctic icebergs, including one so big it would stretch from Nephi to Bountiful.
"In reality, this is more of a human interest story than it is an important scientific result," Long said.
Comparison of the data sets: BYU/National Ice Center and in red, Denmark's Alfred Wegener Institute in orange, Halley, Bouvet and Riou observations in black and Captain James Cook's cruise tracks and data points in blue. Seelye Martin, Long's co-author in the study, extracted Cook's iceberg observations from a line-by-line search of Cook's journal-turned-book about his journey:Martin, Long and another co-author, Michael Schodlok, then compared the positions of the icebergs noted in Cook's journals of the iceberg plume east of Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf — along with iceberg distributions in the Weddell, Ross and Amundsen seas — with modern data.
Long, a noted fan of puns around BYU's campus, said that he likes to use the word "cool" when describing the feeling his team had when they realized the data sets were in agreement, noting that his description is "kind of redundant when talking about icebergs."
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