Sentences with phrase «for glaciologist»

But Mercer (who, interestingly enough for a glaciologist, liked to do field work in the nude) published his observations in an obscure journal, and, according to the historian of science Spencer Weart, «did not push his views on colleagues.»

A short skim through the text below this classic climate change image is often all it takes for glaciologist Twila Moon to find the words that set her teeth on edge: polar ice caps.

One question for the glaciologists, if we postulate that an impact might have triggered the release of a glacially dammed lake, just what sort of time window are we talking about?

Not exact matches

Researchers led by glaciologist Romain Millan of the University of California, Irvine analyzed new oceanographic and topographic data for 20 major glaciers within 10 fjords in southeast Greenland.

Liz Morris, a glaciologist from the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University, spent a few days at the station in mid-July, organizing her supplies for a monthlong, 500 - mile expedition across the ice.

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.

«It's a valuable study with important implications for assessing potential hazards of glacial lakes,» says Tobias Bolch, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

The drill's filters, which clean water being pumped out of the borehole, became clogged with black dust — «volcanic ashes from some past large volcanic eruption,» speculated Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has studied this region for two decades and co-leads the drilling project.

Glaciologists will soon have a treasure trove of data for exploring how Antarctica's underbelly has changed over nearly half a century.

The Antarctic Peninsula holds only a small fraction of the continent's ice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.»

«This new, huge data volume records how the ice sheet evolved and how it's flowing today,» said Joe MacGregor, the study's lead author, a glaciologist at The University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), a unit of the Jackson School of Geosciences.

«For decades, glaciologists had sort of been toiling in obscurity with small - scale tools,» says NASA's John Sonntag, a veteran of those early flights and still part of the team.

Lead author Daniela Jansen, a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, expects that the crack will chip apart Larsen C within five years.

The parallels with the decline of Larsen B are striking, says Adrian Luckman, a glaciologist at Swansea University, UK, who heads a team that has monitored the Larsen C ice crack for several years.

According to coauthor Emily Brodsky, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, this ultrathin coating can help glaciologists better understand the mechanics of how glaciers move, and it provides a potential archive for dating when the material was pasted onto the rock.

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.

For that topic the scientists deferred to Don Blankenship, a University of Texas geophysicist and glaciologist with decades of experience using powerful radar to analyze ice sheets and glaciers in Antarctica.

The research is good news for those who long to find isolated ecosystems in Lake Vostok's dark waters, says glaciologist Charles Bentley of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The body of several thousand atmospheric scientists, climatologists, glaciologists, oceanographers and other scientists, hailing from 154 countries, are more certain than ever that humanity is to blame for global warming, which may be linked to odd events like trees blossoming in the Luxembourg Garden here in the middle of winter.

There, glaciologist Yao Tandong secured funding for a series of joint expeditions from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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.

«This was a big event, and it confirms that the long - term speed - up that we're observing for this glacier is probably driven by other factors, most likely in the ocean,» said corresponding author Ben Smith, a glaciologist with the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory.

«For Wyoming it's a big deal, but for the world it's not a big deal,» said Neil Humphrey, a glaciologist at the University of Wyoming who studied the glaciers here before turning his focus to GreenlaFor Wyoming it's a big deal, but for the world it's not a big deal,» said Neil Humphrey, a glaciologist at the University of Wyoming who studied the glaciers here before turning his focus to Greenlafor the world it's not a big deal,» said Neil Humphrey, a glaciologist at the University of Wyoming who studied the glaciers here before turning his focus to Greenland.

«We think it's a nice case study for this kind of political tension stemming from climate change,» study author William Colgan, a glaciologist at York University in Toronto, said.

«These glaciers will keep retreating for decades and even centuries to come and we can't stop it,» said lead study author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «A large sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has passed the point of no return.»

Tad Pfeffer, of the University of Colorado, and Joel T. Harper of the University of Montana laid out their argument for caution at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco in December, and quite a few glaciologists seem to agree with them.

Brussels, October 3rd, 2012 - A young German glaciologist was tonight presented with the prestigious $ 150,000 InBev - Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship [1], by His Royal Highness Prince Philippe of Belgium, for his proposal...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Martin Sharp, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta, discovered the hypersaline lakes while looking for subglacial continents in the Devon Ice Cap.

Glaciologists from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium talk about their research for the IceCon project, both in the field in Antarctica and in their laboratory back...

The EoC for «Asia's glaciers are a regionally important buffer against drought,» published by Hamish Pritchard, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey, came out today.

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Tad Pfeffer, of the University of Colorado, and Joel T. Harper of the University of Montana laid out their argument for caution at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco in December, and quite a few glaciologists seem to agree with them.

Danish glaciologists have recently calculated that it will take about 13.000 years for all the ice in Greenland to melt if the present speed of melting is maintained.

I've put out a query to a batch of glaciologists for more thoughts and will update this post when they reply.

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.

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.

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.

In fact glaciologists had been working for decades on ways to calculate numbers for the flow of ice masses.

For the past three decades, the US glaciologist has been traversing the majestic mountains of the Himalayan region, particularly the Karakorum Range, with his measuring instruments.

The erroneous prediction of a precipitous end for the Himalayan glaciers was already revealed in November, when a glaciologist working for the Indian environment ministry presented a study on Himalayan glaciers that arrived at completely different conclusions than the IPCC report.

Although one can point to particular glaciers that are growing, glaciologists look for trends in the total mass of glaciers worldwide.

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.

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.

Martin Siegert, a glaciologist at Imperial College London, was part of the team that described a subglacial lake for the first time in 1996.

Andreas Vieli, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland (who was not involved in the study) said: ``... [T] his study offers a very elegant and plausible explanation for the glacier conundrum.

In December, it emerged that four leading glaciologists had prepared a letter for publication in the journal Science arguing that a complete melt by 2035 was physically impossible.

«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... We're going to be watching very carefully for signs that the rest of the shelf is becoming unstable,» Swansea University Glaciologist Dr. Martin O'Leary said.

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.

The glaciologists don't seem to understand the concept of joint probabilities (or for that matter the use of quote marks around the word unlikely).

would then today's serious climatologists and glaciologists be wringing their hands and getting grayhaired because they wouldn't be able to come up with a natural Milankovic type or other explanation for the present post-LIA interglacial warming of the world and imminent disappearance of Tuvalu?