«These are the flights that invented this way of
doing glaciology,» says Dustin Schroeder, a radar engineer at Stanford University in California who is leading the new project.
Not exact matches
However, many projects that are designed to understand climate change, such as
glaciology and oceanography, are impossible to
do anywhere else.
The IASOS has over 60 researchers from
glaciology to biology and oceans policy, as well as the same number of students who are
doing postgraduate courses, masters, or PhDs.
Then look at the annotations in the
glaciology reference document where they
do at least discuss the uncertainties.
«We need an intensified programme in
glaciology by cooperating with China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, besides building our own glacial (study) capacity,» corroborated India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, who added that the IPCC didn't carry out due diligence on the fourth assessment report.
«We're
doing about the most we can
do right now to study the possible collapse of the west ice sheet,» said Dr. Richard Cameron, NSF program manager for
glaciology.