Sentences with phrase «glaciologists in»

Biologists are a bit like glaciologists in that they are willing to study almost anything, so bacteria on glaciers are not new to science.

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.

If there's a glaciologist in the crowd they could help out?

Apparently having misunderstood / misquoted an indian glaciologist in a telephone interview.

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

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.

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.

In 2015, glaciologist Daniela Jansen reported that a large rift was rapidly growing across one of the Antarctic Peninsula's ice shelves, known as Larsen C.

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.

«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.

But the back - to - back surges were «simply astounding,» says Yao Tandong, a glaciologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences's Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research in Beijing.

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.»

Jack Kohler, a glaciologist at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø, points to a pair of adjacent, massive glaciers on Svalbard: Kongsvegen and Kronebreen.

Bacteria and diatoms inhabit those liquid veins, and Hajo Eicken, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, suspects that similar habitats could exist in the lower, warmer layers of ice on Europa, and perhaps on the other moons as well.

«In the last stages, it was like a stack of dominoes,» says Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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.

«Let's hope they don't spoil the lake,» says Robert Bindschadler, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

«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.

At that rate, much of the Wilkins ice shelf will be gone in a few years, says glaciologist Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

«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.

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.

That study sparked a dizzying debate — but one that will ultimately help glaciologists grasp just what is happening in East Antarctica and push scientists to consider how to handle contentious results in a warming world.

«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.

«Going back in time is exactly what we need to do,» says Helen Fricker, a glaciologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

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.»

«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.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

«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.

Other glaciologists would not comment before seeing the details of the analysis, which have yet to be published in a journal.

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.

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.

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 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.

«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.

In contrast, Sergey Bulat, a molecular biologist at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia, and his French colleague Jean - Robert Petit, a glaciologist at the University of Grenoble (and lead author of the classic paper on the 420,000 - year Vostok climate record), detected only a few cells per milliliter; in some specimens they found none at alIn contrast, Sergey Bulat, a molecular biologist at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia, and his French colleague Jean - Robert Petit, a glaciologist at the University of Grenoble (and lead author of the classic paper on the 420,000 - year Vostok climate record), detected only a few cells per milliliter; in some specimens they found none at alin Russia, and his French colleague Jean - Robert Petit, a glaciologist at the University of Grenoble (and lead author of the classic paper on the 420,000 - year Vostok climate record), detected only a few cells per milliliter; in some specimens they found none at alin some specimens they found none at all.

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

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.

Slawek Tulaczyk, a 46 - year - old glaciologist, squinted in the slanted summer rays as he watched a drama unfold 600 feet away.

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.

Glaciologists also noticed that, in some places, the ordinarily jagged landscape beneath the ice was perfectly flat and the radar reflection unusually bright — indicating water instead of rock.

Glaciologists say this is not the case: The Ross Sea Sector is gaining mass because one glacier, the Kamb Ice Stream, which periodically stops and starts, is currently in stop mode and therefore not dumping ice into the ocean.

Glaciologists worldwide use these and other maps in modeling the rate of ice loss in Greenland and projecting future losses.

«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.

«In many regions, this means that valuable pasture areas become submerged,» explains the glaciologist.

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.