Sentences with phrase «state glaciologist»

Ohio State glaciologist Jason Box has said he believes we already have 70 feet of sea - level rise baked into the system.

The vulnerability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or WAIS, has been appreciated for a long time; all the way back in 1968, an eccentric Ohio State glaciologist named John Mercer observed that the WAIS was peculiarly unstable, and that it may have melted away in the geologically recent past.

Imagine a cross between Woody Allen and Carl Sagan and you come somewhat close to capturing the style of Richard Alley, a Penn State glaciologist and expert on Earth's past climate cycles who has spent years trying out new ways to captivate students and the public with the science and significance of climate change.

Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson has spent a career unlocking climate secrets frozen at the top of the world's highest mountain ranges

Not exact matches

Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, said it is an «interesting paper» that shows that thinning has started in a region thought resistant, in response to warming that is much smaller than what is projected for the future.

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.»

Tyler and his colleagues, including David Holland, an oceanographer at New York University, and Victor Zagorodnov, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, Columbus, installed the technology from November to December 2011.

«We don't currently know what changed in 2014 that allowed this rift to push through the suture zone and propagate into the main body of the ice shelf,» said Dan McGrath, a glaciologist at Colorado State University who has been studying the Larsen C ice shelf since 2008.

«IceBridge surveyed previously unexplored parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet and did it using state - of - the - art CReSIS radars,» said study co-author Mark Fahnestock, an IceBridge science team member and glaciologist from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF - GI).

To perform a kind of forensic analysis of the avalanche, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences joined with two glaciologists from The Ohio State University: Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and research scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC), and Ellen Mosley - Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in Geography and director of BPCRC.

A better understanding of how and why the Larsen C crack expanded so quickly could help scientists better predict the future of all Antarctic ice shelves, says Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Penn State.

But the exploration of Antarctica's hidden lakes has just begun, says John Priscu, a glaciologist at Montana State University in Bozeman, who is overseeing the Lake Whillans foray.

«The paper reports a fascinating result,» said Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, «that melting beneath deep ice produces water that flows beneath thinner ice and refreezes, and that this has been going on long enough to make a big refrozen layer.»

«The beds at the margins of the ice sheet... are probably one of the least explored parts of Earth's surface,» said Ian Howat, a glaciologist at Ohio State University who did not participate in the research.

That means the overall contribution to sea level «is still a little fuzzy,» says glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University.

Earth's largest supply of freshwater ice outside of the Arctic and Antarctica resides in Tibet — a place that was off limits to American glaciologists until 20 years ago, when Ohio State's Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) began a collaboration with China's Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research.

«The effort to use the old photographs to learn how the margins of the ice sheet have changed is wonderful,» said Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University.

In fact, glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University says DeConto's model may even be an underestimate.

Icebergs can take months to splinter apart, and smaller pieces will likely be around for years, said Dan McGrath, a glaciologist at Colorado State University.

Dan McGrath, a glaciologist at Colorado State University, was less certain, saying the rift still had to progress through a zone of ice that may cause it to slow down again.

But the rapid retreat seen in the past 40 years means that in the coming decades, sea - level rise will likely exceed this century's sea - level rise projections of 3 feet (90 centimeters) by 2100, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said Sridhar Anandakrishnan, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the study.

Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center, recently found that the current warming in the Andes exceeds any warming for at least the past 500 years.

Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson's studies of Kilimanjaro show that Africa's tallest mountain lost 33 percent of its ice field between 1989 and 2000.

Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson reported at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union that he found two prehistoric plant beds dating back 5,000 and 50,000 years, respectively, near a high Andean glacier.

The new finding appears to be the fulfillment of a prediction made in 1978 by an eminent glaciologist, John H. Mercer of the Ohio State University.

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.

«We're concerned about what happens next, but I would not tie this single event to climate change,» Colorado State University Glaciologist Dan McGrath said.

Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, the Ohio State University glaciologist whose work first focused attention on Kilimanjaro's fading ice, said he saw ample evidence that melting was eating away at what remained.

Lonnie Thompson, glaciologist and Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University, was awarded the 2005 National Medal of Science.

Penn State University glaciologist Richard B. Alley is the winner of the initial Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication, administered by Climate One, a sustainability initiative of the nonprofit Commonwealth Club of California.

Richard Alley is a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University who was not involved in the Science study but is an IPCC report author.

The low carbon dioxide levels outlined by the study through the last 2.1 million years make modern day levels, caused by industrialization, seem even more anomalous, says Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the research.

(Left photo by glaciologist William O. Field; right photo by geologist Bruce F. Molnia of the United States Geological Survey.)

Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson reported in 2007 that the Quelccaya Glacier in southern Peru, which was retreating by 6 meters per year in the 1960s, was by then retreating by 60 meters annually.

«Unstable,» wrote Ohio State University glaciologist John Mercer in 1968.

«I think this event is the calving equivalent of an «aftershock» following the much bigger event,» Ian Howat a glaciologist at Ohio State University told NASA.

The new «law» coined by Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, and a team of other U.S. - based

Bayesian logic of this sort underlies statements by ecologists, glaciologists and climate scientists who state, somewhat unconvincingly, «the more you learn about the evidence behind climate change, the more convinced you become that the change is real and accelerating».

One group, led by geologist Michael Willis, of Cornell University, and another team led by glaciologist Ian Howat, of Ohio State University, report in two different journals on separate but related studies of Greenland's plumbing system: what happens to meltwater.