In glaciology and particularly with respect to Antarctic ice, not all things are created equal.
«We need an intensified programme
in glaciology by cooperating with China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, besides building our own glacial (study) capacity,» corroborated India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, who added that the IPCC didn't carry out due diligence on the fourth assessment report.
Then look at the annotations
in the glaciology reference document where they do at least discuss the uncertainties.
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.
Both studies make an «important contribution» to our understanding of how climate change is likely to affect Arctic sea ice, says Dr Amber Leeson, a lecturer
in glaciology and environmental data science from the University of Lancaster, who was not involved in the research.
The main thrust of the paper, the part getting all the press, arises from the confluence of several recent developments
in glaciology.
«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.
«The WAIS Divide ice core allows us to identify each of the past 30,000 years of snowfall
in individual layers of ice, thus enabling detailed examination of conditions during deglaciation,» said Paul Cutler, NSF Polar Programs»
glaciology program manager.
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.
After many nights talking with Blankenship, Schmidt was convinced that Pappalardo and his crew were disregarding an important source of knowledge
in their attempt to solve the chaos puzzle:
glaciology.
«There are quite a few scientists like Claude — all from a slightly earlier era, when
glaciology was not the cover - of - Rolling - Stone enterprise that it is today — whose accomplishments are as great or greater than most of the «big names»
in the business today, but who are essentially unknown outside their immediate circle,» he said.
«
In Earth science and
glaciology, we're seeing an explosion of publicly available data.
«One thing that we show pretty well
in this study is that our simulation is relevant to a range of different research disciplines, not only
glaciology.
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.
I also love working
in groups with diverse colleagues from other fields, such as geodesy and
glaciology.
During the 2013 - 2014 BELARE season, the and and solar powered station will host scientists working
in the fields of atmospheric science,
glaciology, meteorology, geology, and, from several different countries, including large from Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Japan [4].
Paleoclimatology; seasonal to millennial scale changes
in ocean / atmosphere interactions and teleconnections; stable isotope and trace element geochemistry; polar and alpine
glaciology
That conclusion has emerged through a broad body of analysis
in fields as disparate as
glaciology, the study of glacial formations, and palynology, the study of the distribution of pollen grains
in lake mud.
These days, a journalist, or anyone else, can
in seconds find heaps of scientists studying
glaciology or marine mammal endocrinology or the toxicity of petroleum with a mouse click.
To address these global challenges, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) jointly funded a workshop that brought together experts
in limnology, aquatic biogeochemistry, atmospheric science,
glaciology, and hydrology from the United States and China.
Australian Antarctic Division
glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses
in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases
in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
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.
«One thing that we show pretty well
in this study is that our simulation is relevant to a range of different research disciplines, not only
glaciology.
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.
Hasnain now works for the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, as head of the
glaciology team for TERI, an energy research institute headquartered
in India.
These discipline - specific activities serve an important role as international forums for developing and comparing models
in the individual fields of
glaciology and oceanography.
Scientific Discipline Cryosphere Speaker Eric Rignot (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Abstract Modern views of ice sheets provided by satellites, airborne surveys,
in situ data and paleoclimate records while transformative of
glaciology have not fundamentally changed concerns about ice sheet stability and collapse that emerged
in the 1970's.
Hasnain, of Jawaharlal Nehru University
in Delhi, who was then chairman of the International Commission on Snow and Ice's working group on Himalayan
glaciology, has never repeated the prediction
in a peer - reviewed journal.
Perhaps Professor Salby should have acquainted himself with
glaciology research before making such comments, because CO2 from ancient air trapped
in the ice cores is precisely what is measured, albeit with some uncertainty
in dating some sections.