Sentences with word «glaciologist»

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 Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice body in the world, looks likely to push up sea - levels in 2100 up by 3.5 inches, according to new research by glaciologists from the UK and US, published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

He points out that Jason Box, an eminent glaciologist with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), revealed in a recent presentation that Greenland's contribution to sea level rise had doubled over the past decade, and could add as much as 1.4 meters to sea level rise by 2100 if that doubling were to continue on a 10 year interval.

The images have been available at a nominal cost, but NASA won't pay the higher rates, says glaciologist Ian Joughin of the University of Washington, Seattle.

It hopes to unite the international community of glaciologists in order to carry out at least another ten or so drilling missions at various glaciers around the world, both those of scientific interest and those threatened by climate change.

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

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.

The late Bob Thomas, a NASA glaciologist who helped to popularize the idea, went so far as to uncork a bottle of wine and pour some out to demonstrate the effect during his talks.

The claim that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 appears to have originated in a 1999 interview with Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain, published in New Scientist magazine.

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

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.

The push back from glaciologists on this issue was a good example of how the science community can organise and provide corrections of high - profile mis - statements by non-scientists — by connecting directly with journalists, providing easy access to the real data, and tracking down the source of the confusion.

The Yahtse's rogue advance is one stage in what glaciologists call the «tidewater glacier cycle» — a drama of growth and retreat that unfolds over centuries.

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.»

The original statement that gave life to that line was made by Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain to Fred Pearce for an article which appeared in New Scientist back in 1999.

«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 glaciologist Martin O'Leary.

Here's more about why this is the case — and how glaciologists know this isn't normal — from our friends at Yale Climate Connections:

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.

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.

Most glaciologists working in the tropics agree that the ice - caps and glaciers are melting at a remarkable rate, and that climate change is responsible.

«We are almost there already,» says glaciologist Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine.

Some years later, I spoke to other glaciologists who seriously contested the claim and i did not repeat it after that, regarding it as at best unreliable.

The motivation isn't fame; in fact, he and other glaciologists seem positively allergic to it.

«[Hansen's] views are clearly at the upper boundary of what many glaciologists and oceanographers together see as realistic, or even physically possible, in a warming world,» Revkin wrote on January 5, 2009.

Now more detailed information about the timing of the ice's movements may have helped glaciologists find an answer.

The public may balk at geoengineering, but we've got to think boldly if we're going to protect our coasts, says glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk

The findings sharpen the way glaciologists think about melting of ice sheets and how ice reflects light, according to Marek Stibal, a cryosphere ecologist at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and one of the lead authors of the new study.

«This means that more water can go through the cracks and eat the ice away,» says Adrien Gilbert, a UiO glaciologist who described his team's findings at the Third Pole Science Summit last July in Kunming, China.

U.K. - based glaciologist Adrian Luckman of Swansea University leads Project Midas, which tracks Larsen C.

In addition to President Hollande and Mayor Hidalgo, experts like glaciologist Claude Lorius, elected leaders like California Governor Jerry Brown and other special guests like film and television actor Ryan Reynolds will join throughout the 24 - hour program.

The report, by senior glaciologist Vijay Kumar Raina, formerly of the Geological Survey of India, seeks to correct a widely held misimpression based on measurements of a handful of glaciers: that India's 10,000 or so Himalayan glaciers are shrinking rapidly in response to climate change.

These scientists include glaciologists who specialize in sea ice; chemical and physical oceanographers who are looking at changes in CO2, iron cycling, chlorofluorocarbons, and ocean circulation; biologists who are working with krill, squid, seals, or whales; as well as other microbiologists looking at the bacterial and algal communities and their production.

«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.»

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

Knut Christianson, a 33 - year - old glaciologist at the University of Washington, has been there twice.

The Antarctic gives off large icebergs maybe every three or four years, says glaciologist David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey.

Almost every one of more than 300 large glaciers studied worldwide — from the Andes in South America to the Himalayas — is in retreat, international glaciologists reported in October in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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.

The arrivals include German glaciologist Dr Reinhard Drews, based at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), who makes his second trip to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica as part of his InBev Baillet Latour Antarctic Fellowship.

«Calculations by glaciologists now suggest that by 2050 most of the Himalayan glaciers will have gone and the impact on dry season flow of those great rivers will be dramatic in the extreme.»

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.

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