According to Andreas Bauder, senior researcher in the section of
glaciology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), there's no end in sight to this changing alpine environment.
He comes to Victoria by way of Master's research in
glaciology at the University of Calgary and PhD research in paleoclimatology at Oregon State University.
«I think I'm about as young as you can get for being a person who started in
glaciology at a time when climate change was not a primary part of the conversation,» says Moon, who is 35.
and Ph.D. in
glaciology at McGill University.
Not exact matches
So she switched fields — to
glaciology — and started a postdoc
at the British Antarctic Survey in 1998.
«These are the flights that invented this way of doing
glaciology,» says Dustin Schroeder, a radar engineer
at Stanford University in California who is leading the new project.
Trained first in astrophysics, Horodyskyj is now a graduate student
at the University of Colorado Boulder, a school where rock climbing and
glaciology go hand in hand.
Today's polar scientist frequently marvels as she or he looks back
at what these early scientist - explorers accomplished, as they laid the foundations that remain firm to this day in fields ranging across geology, meteorology, biology,
glaciology, and more.
During his stay
at the station, he will be in regular communication with Belgian students to help them learn about the technical aspects of the station, as well as the variety of the different scientific projects (
glaciology, atmospheric sciences and Earth sciences) taking place
at the station.
From 1899 to 1962, those ice fields more exposed to direct solar radiation «wasted drastically» while those in narrow, shaded grooves changed very little, said Dr. Stefan L. Hastenrath, a professor emeritus
at the University of Wisconsin, who is a longstanding expert on African
glaciology.
The author, Fred Pearce, had quoted Indian scientist Syed Hasnain who was
at the time chairman of the working group on Himalayan
glaciology for the International Commission on Snow and Ice.
Then look
at the annotations in the
glaciology reference document where they do
at least discuss the uncertainties.