Sentences with phrase «like glaciologist»

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

Not exact matches

«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.

«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.

Climatologists and glaciologists like Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center are alarmed.

Glaciologists would like to know what's happening.

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 study those impacts, the glaciologists are teaming up with ecologists, oceanographers, biologists and botanists to assess how socio - economically important species like salmon are likely to fare in the warmer Alaska of the future.

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.»

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.

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.