 The NCAR Explorer Series is coming to the Longmont Museum. NCAR scientists and Longmont native Dr. Scott Landau will be talking about Antarctica, catching snow in the world's southernmost desert. One of the things that we are trying to do is actually measure snowfall in Antarctica, which has never been done before because the conditions are so harsh. We've designed a project where we think we can actually get estimates of how much snow is falling down there and compare it to the models to see just how much snow is being added to the Antarctic ice sheets so that we can get an idea of how much is melting versus how much is actually being added on. For people along coastlines who are having to deal with increased sea levels from the ice sheets and stuff melting off in Greenland and in the Antarctic region, this will finally actually get us an idea of how much precip is being added on top and how much more snow melt could possibly be occurring in the years coming.