Sentences with phrase «ice scientist whose»

Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, Arctic Ice Scientist whose theories are presented in the play will speak about this summer's Arctic Ice Melt and dialogue with the audience about anthropomorphic climate change and what we can do.

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Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.

More than half a kilometre beneath the Devon Ice Cap, scientists discovered two lakes whose extreme saltiness could make them a habitat for microbes — an environment that might also exist on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

The scientists — whose names are secret — plan to map the ice pack and the ocean floor beneath it, monitor patterns of ocean circulation and analyse water samples for evidence of pollution.

Addendum, Feb. 16, 8:40 a.m. Charles H. Green, a climate scientist at Cornell, sent this note by email referring to relevant research on Arctic snow and ice patterns and weather led by Judah Cohen, a commercial climate analyst whose work has been explored here before:

The $ 200,000 Tyler Prize for 2009, one of the top awards for environmental achievement, will be shared by Richard Alley, who has spent decades probing the planet's ancient ice for climate clues, and Veerabhadran «Ram» Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist whose focus has been the substantial influence of sooty pollution on climate and health in South Asia.

But for years prior to that, scientists can only infer temperatures using what's called «proxies,» such as ice cores or tree rings, whose annual growth can be correlated with annual temperature variations.

«The record - warm Arctic so far this year, which is probably a preview of a two - degrees - warmer globe, will spawn all sorts of surprises that we can not foresee,» according to Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Rutgers University whose work focuses on the implications of rapidly diminishing Arctic sea ice.

The prime contenders are the melting of the West Antarctic ice - sheet, the melting of the Greenland ice - sheet (whose collapse some scientists believe will now be hard to prevent), and the thawing of peat bogs in western

Luke Trusel, a climate scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, whose similar work was cited in the DeConto paper, says that taken together, his work and DeConto's new work shows that «melting at the [ice shelf] surface can go from insignificant to extremely significant over a short amount of time.

Emperor penguins, whose long treks across Antarctic ice to mate have been immortalised by Hollywood, are heading towards extinction, scientists say.