Sentences with phrase «glaciologist with»

Mike Demuth, research scientist and glaciologist with Natural Resources Canada, monitors select glaciers through the Climate Change Geoscience Program.

Credits: NASA's... From Zwally as well, «We're essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica,» said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology.

The glacier «has started a phase of self - sustained retreat and will irreversibly continue its decline,» says Gael Durand, a glaciologist with France's Grenoble [continue reading...]

«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 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 team's study complements an earlier study led by Jason Roberts, a glaciologist with the Australian Antarctic Division at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center.

«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.

«The interesting thing is what happens next, how the remaining ice shelf responds,» said Kelly Brunt, a glaciologist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland in College Park.

NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has provided glaciologists with a new tool to study mass balance on both Greenland and Antarctica.

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.

After a glaciologist from Alaska believed she heard trapped air bubbles escaping the ice, she teamed with other scientists from Texas to eavesdrop on bits of melting glacier ice taken from Gulkana Glacier in Alaska.

«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.

«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.

«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.

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.

The point was driven home this summer in the wake of the bear siting: A team of British glaciologists went on a daylong field excursion to dig a trench below a glacier, but Cox instructed them to keep one person on watch with a rifle at all times as the others worked.

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.

«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.

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.

To study those impacts, the glaciologists are teaming up with ecologists, oceanographers, biologists and botanists to assess how socio - economically important species like salmon are likely to fare in the warmer Alaska of the future.

Robert Bingham, a glaciologist at the University of Aberdeen, along with field assistant Chris Griffiths, had embarked on a nine - week trip during the 2009 - 2010 field season to survey the Ferrigno Glacier, a region humans had visited only once before, 50 years earlier.

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...

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

With contributions from geologists, historians, archeaologists and glaciologists, as well as a new essay by Geoff Dyer about the photographs from the nineteenth - century expeditions that provided some of the first glimpses of the region and its inhabitants, this catalogue considers the place of the Arctic in the history and culture of the West at a moment when the region is taking on a new significance as a threatened, vanishing space.

Dario Robleto is an internationally exhibited artist whose transdisciplinary explorations have led to collaborations with specialists in myriad fields, including artificial heart researchers, neuroscientists, glaciologists, and astronomers involved with the search for life in the Universe.

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.

Variations in the literature abound with regard to the precise definition, and the term is often used by paleoclimatologists and glaciologists without formal dates attached.

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.

Here's the nub, with varied reactions coming from glaciologists later:

As I read in and around the topic of climate change, one thing that is most compelling to me is that ornithologists, geologists, marine biologists, ichthyologists, oceanographers, glaciologists, physicists, zoologists, primatologists, sailors, fishermen, etc, etc, all working in their own disciplines and professions are coming to the same conclusion that something profound is happening with our climate.

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.

I also draw here on my own conversations with glaciologists.

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.

Glaciologists, biologists and agricultural scientists just do what they do, so if the results are / aren't consistent with AGW they're going to report accordingly.

Mr. Sinclair has traveled three times to the Greenland ice sheet with scientific teams to document ongoing research in this area, and interviewed hundreds of today's best known glaciologists, oceanographers, geologists, and atmospheric scientists.

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.

The sentence was based on a decade - old interview with a glaciologist in a popular magazine; the scientist now says he was misquoted.

In a separate talk today, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson showed a new ice core data * from Huascarán in Peru, the highest tropical mountain, with a huge spike in dust deposition around this time.

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?

«Dr Pachauri has personally been drawn into a major row with the Indian government, previously among his leading supporters, after he described as «voodoo science» an official report by the country's leading glaciologist, Dr Vijay Raina, which dismissed Dr Hasnain's claims as baseless.»

With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time,» said Lora Koenig, a Goddard Space Flight Centre glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data.

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.

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.

During world - renowned glaciologist Lonnie Thompson's recent expedition to sample the ice before it disappears — along with the historical climate data trapped inside the ice — heavy rains thinned the ice around his campsite by 30 centimeters in just 13 days.