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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.

If such an error is not denounced by glaciologists from the Scott Polar Institute, that will prove your theory.

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 group included separate teams of biologists, geologists and glaciologists from a dozen institutions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«IceBridge surveyed previously unexplored parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet and did it using state - of - the - art CReSIS radars,» said study co-author Mark Fahnestock, an IceBridge science team member and glaciologist from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF - GI).

Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist from the University of California at Santa Cruz, has come to Antarctica to do just that.

«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 melt rates «were just crazy,» says Adrian Jenkins, a glaciologist from the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge.

Not exact matches

The earth's mountain ice is not disappearing from human activity alone, according to Swiss glaciologists.

UCI glaciologists have created new maps of this part of Greenland using data from NASA missions and learned why some of the massive, moving ice slabs are more vulnerable to melting than others.

Features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys are interesting to a wide range of scientists, from biologists to geologists to glaciologists.

Tyler and his colleagues, including David Holland, an oceanographer at New York University, and Victor Zagorodnov, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, Columbus, installed the technology from November to December 2011.

When the earthquake struck, glaciologist Kargel considered how he could help from more than 8,000 miles away.

His beard is full and his skin darkened by the ultraviolet rays that glaciologists come to expect from working on a reflective ice sheet in 24 - hour sunlight.

«Once these things start retreating, you just can't fix it,» explained Chris Larsen, UAF glaciologist and the project's lead scientist, from his office in Fairbanks.

Lake Whillans principal investigators (from left) glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk from the University of California in Santa Cruz, Priscu and Powell negotiate which science projects will get priority access down the borehole.

The glaciologist was combing through satellite and GPS data to see what small, local effects could be clouding satellite measurements of larger changes in Earth's gravity from ice loss.

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.

«To place it in context,» says professor Alun Hubbard, the paper's second author and a leading glaciologist, «this is almost ten times the current rates of ice being lost from Greenland and Antarctica today.

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

European glaciologists drilling an ice core from the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet expect to reach bedrock, 3050 metres below, this week.

Here, at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide, Kendrick Taylor and his team of glaciologists drill into ancient ice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snow.

A British team directed by University of Edinburgh glaciologist Martin Siegert of the British Antarctic Survey returned from Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth last week, where it dropped off a drill, 3400 meters of hose, a giant hot water boiler, and four 1.5 megawatt generators.

«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.

A glaciologist doesn't let a heart transplant keep him from braving dizzying altitudes to gather crucial ice core samples from retreating tropical and subtropical glaciers

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.

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.

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

But there are a lot of factors involved, according to many glaciologists and climate specialists, including soot from cooking fires, which settles on ice, making it less reflective and amplifying melting.

So, no new alarm bells this time from the glaciologists, but the uncertainties concerning outlet glaciers and the effects of sea ice retreat are still in the air and imply that sea level rise estimates might need to be reconsidered.

As summer neared an end in 2007, reports from Greenland indicated that the flow of glaciers into the sea had accelerated beyond anything glaciologists had thought possible.

We have noticed a significant decline in stream flow from the glaciers,» the glaciologist, from the University of Kashmir, told AFP.

In ice sheet areas distant from a dust source this maybe difficult, but on alpine glaciers mountaineers and glaciologists have long noticed the ubiquitous nature of these layers (Post and LaChapelle, 1962).

A more subtle response came hard on the heels of Bradley and Jones, 93,94 from a couple of prominent glaciologists: http://faculty.fgcu.edu/twimberley/EnviroPol/EnviroPhilo/Glacial.pdf (No LIA?

Glaciologists analyzed ice flow to the ocean from 1991 to 2015 in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, and found that surface melt grew by a whopping 900 percent, or 10 times, in the 10 years between 2005 and 2015, increasing to 30 gigatons per year by the end of that time.

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

Glaciologist and lead author, Dr Robert Bingham says, «Over the last 20 years we have used satellites to monitor ice losses from Antarctica, and we have witnessed consistent and substantial ice losses from around much of its coastline.

«To place it in context», says professor Alun Hubbard, the paper's second author and a leading glaciologist, «this is almost ten times the current rates of ice being lost from Greenland and Antarctica today.

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.

The glaciologists confirmed, that like the West Antarctic ice shelves that buttress their glaciers, the East Antarctica shelves are also melting from beneath due to warm ocean temperatures.

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.

What I would like to know is, what do global climate models say about the depth of the warm oceanic layer in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere near the U.S., both under the standard assumptions and under assumptions of greater runoff from Greenland which almost all glaciologists seem to find most likely.

New research from glaciologist Tad Pfeffer of the University of Colorado at Boulder and colleagues published in Science attempts to better estimate the possible sea level rise over the next century by measuring the speed at which the world's glaciers — in Greenland and Antarctica but also the many mountain ice sheets throughout the globe — are actually speeding to the sea as well as how swiftly they may melt.

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.