Sentences with phrase «glaciologists on»

[Response: Ah, so the Scott Polar Research Institute, the glaciologists on the Cyrolist listserv and even us, are not part of the «Climate Community» — got it.

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.

We have pointed out that a geneticist, even a Nobel Prize winning one, can be (and was) wrong about the basics of climate science, and that he was wrong to take the word of a glaciologist on a point on which he was not expert.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Only a subset of glaciologists have focused on the potential of seismology to inform their research, while the vast majority of seismologists are focused on tectonic and volcanic events.

«Assumptions were always previously based on observations by glaciologists and other researchers.

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.

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 all.

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.

Early next month the team of glaciologists and climatologists will dispatch it on its new career off the coast of Antarctica.

A prominent glaciologist, Ricardo Villalba, has been indicted on criminal charges for allegedly favoring a mining company as a consequence of how his former institute designed Argentina's national glacier inventory.

«The paper reports a fascinating result,» said Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, «that melting beneath deep ice produces water that flows beneath thinner ice and refreezes, and that this has been going on long enough to make a big refrozen layer.»

«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.

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.

«CryoSat - 2 gives us a new pair of eyes on what is happening to Earth's ice,» says Robert Bindschadler, a glaciologist and chief scientist at NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md. «The changes in the cryosphere are providing the most unequivocal evidence that we are changing our planet in ways that should concern us all.»

«The traditional view of the loss of land ice on Earth has been that mountain glaciers and ice caps are the dominant contributors, and ice sheets are following behind,» said study co-author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine.

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.

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.

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.

This brief overview can only give a flavor of the size and scope of research that has been conducted on West Antarctic ice streams and ice ridges by the glaciologists honored by ACAN.

Kaser, Georg Georg Kaser is a glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, a Lead Author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and the IPCC Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water, and the Immediate Past President of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences.

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.

Please read this sober paper on glaciers and climate by french professor and glaciologist Robert Vivian... sorry it is in french: http://virtedit.online.fr/article.html In a follow - up article he starts saying «No, glaciers do not risk disappearing!»

Gordon Stuart Hamilton, 50, a glaciologist at the University of Maine, was killed over the weekend on a scientific expedition to Antarctica.

Sorry, I probably missed the boat on this one (you caught me on vacation) but I think you and the glaciologist make a good point.

Most glaciologists have assumed that temperature trends in that region are not big enough to matter in the way that they have mattered on the Antarctic Peninsula, where surface melting has led to ice shelf collapse.

Glaciologists are paying very close attention to Pine Island Glacier («PIG» on map, right) and nearby Thwaites Glacier.

I am not a Glaciologist but a Climatologist and the statement attributed to me in «Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified» By David Rose in UK Daily Mail on 24th January 2010 has been wrongly placed.

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.

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.

The story of the farmers and the Aletsch was told to me by Marcus Aellen, a glaciologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, which sits on a hill overlooking the tourist - clogged alleys along the banks of Zurich's Limmat River.

But glaciologists say there is no clear answer yet on how fast and far seas could rise.

I also draw here on my own conversations with glaciologists.

Meanwhile some senior glaciologists and others argued that it was a mistake to concentrate on what seemed most probable.

He is the chief expert on the Himalayan Region Climate Change Assessment Project and glaciologist at the Chinese Academy of Science, and has compared those two national glacier surveys.

In fact glaciologists had been working for decades on ways to calculate numbers for the flow of ice masses.

«Field glaciologists have been doing a good job of reporting current trends on the ice sheets,» says Hansen.

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

The erroneous prediction of a precipitous end for the Himalayan glaciers was already revealed in November, when a glaciologist working for the Indian environment ministry presented a study on Himalayan glaciers that arrived at completely different conclusions than the IPCC report.

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.»

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?

Dr. Theodore A. Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said the long life of Larsen B «makes you think there's something particularly unusual about this warming» — perhaps evidence that the warming has been brought on by artificial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.