Sentences with phrase «glaciologist who»

At the AGU Chapman Conference last month I met up with Lonnie Thompson, the alpine glaciologist who has spent more time above 20,000 feet than any other human.

Fritz Koerner, a Canadian glaciologist who also drilled ice cores on Baffin and Ellesmere Island, produced an excellent early (1973) assessment of the situation.

«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.

Ulyana Nadia Horodyskyj is a glaciologist who operates a scientific outreach program in Nepal and analyzes lakes that form on melting glaciers high in the Himalayas.

Not exact matches

Peter Neff, a glaciologist at the University of Rochester who travels regularly to the Antarctic, said ground observations would never tell you the full story of what's going on with ice sheets in that part of the world.

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.

Jansen, of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany, and glaciologist Adrian Luckman of Swansea University in Wales were among the MIDAS team members who reported their observations on the team's blog.

«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.

«That in itself doesn't mean something is wrong» with the result, says Jonathan Bamber, a glaciologist at Bristol, who co-authored the recent paper led by Martin - Español.

«We could see whales in places where the ice was 300 meters thick a few days earlier,» says Pedro Skvarca, a glaciologist with the Argentine Antarctic Institute in Buenos Aires who flew over the site in a plane shortly afterward.

Another alternative has been suggested by glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who studies west Antarctica's Whillans Ice Sheet, among other glaciers.

Computer simulations suggest that the central part of the shelf will speed up, now that a piece of its buttress has been removed, says glaciologist Adrian Luckman of Swansea University in Wales, who will analyze satellite data as part of the effort.

«Everyone was fooled by the collapse of a mountain,» says Martin Luethi, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich, who has been studying Greenland's glaciers since 1995.

«This work has characterized the surge in exceptional detail,» says Duncan Quincey, a glaciologist at the University of Leeds in England, who was not involved in the study.

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.

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.

«They show clearly that... the surface melt must have contributed to the rapid rise, the refilling of the subglacial lake,» Joe MacGregor, a glaciologist from the University of Texas, who was not involved in the research, said.

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.

«Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted by current models,» said Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studied the glacial flow in a paper in Science last year.

«The strength of ice might be really different than what a laboratory measurement might tell us, because of all of these impurities coming into play,» said Jeremy Bassis, a glaciologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who wasn't involved with the MIT study.

«He went out on a limb a lot more than people have to now,» said Paul Mayewski, a glaciologist at the University of Maine, who trained with Lorius at LGGE in the 1980s.

«This paper does confirm what we hypothesized, that knocking out the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites takes down the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,» says Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who co-authored last year's Science paper.

«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.

«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 Greenland.

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.

The first scientists arrive by aircraft on November 19th, including German glaciologist Dr Reinhard Drews who makes his second trip to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica as part of his InBev Baillet Latour Antarctic Fellowship.

Robin Bell, a glaciologist at Columbia University who wasn't involved with the new study, called it a «very pretty piece of work.»

Glaciologist Peter Neff at the University of Washington, who also wasn't involved, agreed that the study's conclusions weren't that surprising.

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.

Georg Kaser, a glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, who led the research, said: «The glaciers are going to melt and melt until they are all gone.

This is a view shared by Prof Peter Nienow, a glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh, who said: «The significant warming being seen in many places across the planet makes it unlikely that the recent warming reported in this paper is due just to local natural variability.»

There were even glaciologists here who argued [West Antarctica] was stable at the time.»

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.»

How about chairman of IPCC and the Himalayan glaciers: «The inclusion of this statement has angered many glaciologists, who regard it as unjustified.

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.

Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center, who was not involved with the study, told the Monitor that glacial fluctuations can not be seen in isolation, and are influenced by a combination of precipitation and temperature.

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

«This paper does confirm what we hypothesized, that knocking out the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites takes down the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,» says Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who co-authored a study appearing last year in Science on the retreat of the Thwaites Glacier.

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.

In 1999 New Scientist reported a comment by the leading Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain, who said in an email interview with this author that all the glaciers in the central and eastern Himalayas could disappear by 2035.

Eric Rignot (NASA / JPL) one of the world's most prominent glaciologists, who is behind a landmark report revealing the unstoppable collapse of a large part of Antarctica, gave a lecture at Victoria University of Wellington in February 2017, on future sea level rise.

The inclusion of this statement has angered many glaciologists, who regard it as unjustified.

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».

Knowing the thickness and total volume of glaciers worldwide is essential for modeling the response of glaciers to climate change, said Valentina Radic, a glaciologist at the University of British Columbia who was not involved in the study.

«This is not in the future — this is widespread now, and has been for decades,» says Jonathan Kingslake, a glaciologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, who led the research.

Glaciologists are people who study and analyze the movement and physical properties of glaciers and ice.