December 2020 • Nebraskaland 39
Maybe one of these days, a brave and curious passerby will
stop and make their way out to where I'm photographing
bubbles to ask me about it . If so, maybe we can have a lively
and engaged conversation about the air-holding capacity of
freezing water. Or maybe they will pull out their own camera
and begin photographing ice bubbles, too.
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Chris Helzer is the Nature Conservancy's director of science
in Nebraska.
ABOVE: Radiating streams of bubbles from a plant stem
beneath the ice at the Helzer family prairie.
LEFT: Bubbles, duckweed and rushes in a frozen wetland at
the Nature Conservancy's Platte River Prairies.
