Sentences with phrase «as glaciologist»

I used to work as a glaciologist.

As a glacial geologist, George was responsible for the areal extent of these ice sheets and, as a glaciologist, I was responsible for their vertical extent.

As glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University notes: «The ice sheet is losing mass, this loss has increased over time, [and] it is not the dominant term in sea - level rise — but it matters.»

«As glaciologists and glacial geologists, we respond to the article «Glaciers — science and nonsense» by Cliff Ollier in the March issue of Geoscientist1.

Not exact matches

In 2015, glaciologist Daniela Jansen reported that a large rift was rapidly growing across one of the Antarctic Peninsula's ice shelves, known as Larsen C.

Bacteria and diatoms inhabit those liquid veins, and Hajo Eicken, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, suspects that similar habitats could exist in the lower, warmer layers of ice on Europa, and perhaps on the other moons as well.

Glaciologist Waleed Abdalati was named today as NASA's chief scientist, a position that has been vacant since 2005.

Computer simulations suggest that the central part of the shelf will speed up, now that a piece of its buttress has been removed, says glaciologist Adrian Luckman of Swansea University in Wales, who will analyze satellite data as part of the effort.

The point was driven home this summer in the wake of the bear siting: A team of British glaciologists went on a daylong field excursion to dig a trench below a glacier, but Cox instructed them to keep one person on watch with a rifle at all times as the others worked.

Slawek Tulaczyk, a 46 - year - old glaciologist, squinted in the slanted summer rays as he watched a drama unfold 600 feet away.

A prominent glaciologist, Ricardo Villalba, has been indicted on criminal charges for allegedly favoring a mining company as a consequence of how his former institute designed Argentina's national glacier inventory.

«Within a few months» of a breakup, explains glaciologist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.»

Glaciologists and climate scientists of his generation also did not attract as much attention as scientists do today, said Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Here, at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide, Kendrick Taylor and his team of glaciologists drill into ancient ice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snow.

Camp Century was known to Colgan and other glaciologists as the site where the first deep ice core was drilled.

«We're seeing more tidewater glaciers retreat,» said glaciologist and team member Fabian Walter of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, Calif. «As they retreat, they thin, and that increases the likelihood that they'll come afloat.»

The first scientists arrive by aircraft on November 19th, including German glaciologist Dr Reinhard Drews who makes his second trip to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica as part of his InBev Baillet Latour Antarctic Fellowship.

With contributions from geologists, historians, archeaologists and glaciologists, as well as a new essay by Geoff Dyer about the photographs from the nineteenth - century expeditions that provided some of the first glimpses of the region and its inhabitants, this catalogue considers the place of the Arctic in the history and culture of the West at a moment when the region is taking on a new significance as a threatened, vanishing space.

As I read in and around the topic of climate change, one thing that is most compelling to me is that ornithologists, geologists, marine biologists, ichthyologists, oceanographers, glaciologists, physicists, zoologists, primatologists, sailors, fishermen, etc, etc, all working in their own disciplines and professions are coming to the same conclusion that something profound is happening with our climate.

None of the authors in Asia Chapter were Glaciologist and we entirely trusted the findings reported in the WWF 2005 Report and the underlying references as scientifically sound and relevant in the context of climate change impacts in the region.

The retreat of the glaciers might be seen simply as an inconvenience to Swiss dairy farmers and glaciologists were it not for the fact that the same trend is being noted in mountain glaciers around the globe.

As summer neared an end in 2007, reports from Greenland indicated that the flow of glaciers into the sea had accelerated beyond anything glaciologists had thought possible.

How about chairman of IPCC and the Himalayan glaciers: «The inclusion of this statement has angered many glaciologists, who regard it as unjustified.

COLUMBUS — Thirty - six years after catching flak for one of the most bold and dire predictions about global warming, former Ohio State University glaciologist John H. Mercer is being hailed as a visionary.

As the snow gets dirtier, its reflectivity decreases, and it melts faster, which causes a positive feedback loop, said the study's lead author, Marco Tedesco, a glaciologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.

Glaciologists have long known materials such as mineral dust and black carbon can darken the surface of large ice sheets.

«Dr Pachauri has personally been drawn into a major row with the Indian government, previously among his leading supporters, after he described as «voodoo science» an official report by the country's leading glaciologist, Dr Vijay Raina, which dismissed Dr Hasnain's claims as baseless.»

«Although this is a natural event, and we're not aware of any link to human - induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position,» said Martin O'Leary, a glaciologist at Swansea University, said as the Midas project announced that the ice shelf had broken.

Glaciologists have announced that a huge ice stream in western Antarctica, recognised as the largest single contributor of ice to the sea, has begun an accelerated and irreversible melt rate that could see it shedding 100 billion tonnes a year, equating to a global sea level rise of up to 10 mm in 20 years.

An international team led by glaciologists from the University of Colorado Boulder and Trent University in Ontario, Canada has completed the first mapping of virtually all of the world's glaciers — including their locations and sizes — allowing for calculations of their volumes and ongoing contributions to global sea rise as the world warms.

The inclusion of this statement has angered many glaciologists, who regard it as unjustified.

He once dismissed as «voodoo science» an official report by India's leading glaciologist, Vijay Raina, because it had challenged a bizarre claim in an IPCC report (citing a WWF report which cited an article in New Scientist), that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035.

Credits: NASA's... From Zwally as well, «We're essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica,» said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology.

PSC Glaciologist Ian Joughin was elected to be an AGU fellow as part of the class of 2015.

Thomson Reuters named PSC Glaciologist Ian Joughin as one of The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2015.

New research from glaciologist Tad Pfeffer of the University of Colorado at Boulder and colleagues published in Science attempts to better estimate the possible sea level rise over the next century by measuring the speed at which the world's glaciers — in Greenland and Antarctica but also the many mountain ice sheets throughout the globe — are actually speeding to the sea as well as how swiftly they may melt.

The principal glacier of the world's biggest tropical ice - cap could disappear within five years as a result of global warming, one of the world's leading glaciologists predicted yesterday.

In the article, «Flooded Out,» Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain speculates that the Himalayan glaciers could vanish within 40 years as a result of global warming.