Sentences with phrase «many glaciologists»

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.

The earth's mountain ice is not disappearing from human activity alone, according to Swiss glaciologists.

Researchers led by glaciologist Romain Millan of the University of California, Irvine analyzed new oceanographic and topographic data...

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.

The public may balk at geoengineering, but we've got to think boldly if we're going to protect our coasts, says glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk

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.

But not all glaciologists think it has significantly changed the planet's immediate prognosis.

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.

UCI glaciologists have created new maps of this part of Greenland using data from NASA missions and learned why some of the massive, moving ice slabs are more vulnerable to melting than others.

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.»

«The underlying physics are the same,» says Thomas Schuler, a UiO glaciologist.

«That was the critical part that held the ice back,» says Jon Ove Hagen, a UiO glaciologist.

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.

Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson has spent a career unlocking climate secrets frozen at the top of the world's highest mountain ranges

«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.

Features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys are interesting to a wide range of scientists, from biologists to geologists to glaciologists.

«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.

The drill's filters, which clean water being pumped out of the borehole, became clogged with black dust — «volcanic ashes from some past large volcanic eruption,» speculated Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has studied this region for two decades and co-leads the drilling project.

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.

Tyler and his colleagues, including David Holland, an oceanographer at New York University, and Victor Zagorodnov, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, Columbus, installed the technology from November to December 2011.

Glaciologists have long worried that the West Antarctic ice sheet will collapse over the next few centuries, raising sea levels dramatically.

«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.

Glaciologist Miriam Jackson makes a long, scenic commute to her Norwegian lab.

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.

«It's very important work,» says Martin Siegert, a glaciologist at Imperial College London.

«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.

Glaciologists will soon have a treasure trove of data for exploring how Antarctica's underbelly has changed over nearly half a century.

«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).

Another alternative has been suggested by glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who studies west Antarctica's Whillans Ice Sheet, among other glaciers.

«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.

«This new, huge data volume records how the ice sheet evolved and how it's flowing today,» said Joe MacGregor, the study's lead author, a glaciologist at The University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), a unit of the Jackson School of Geosciences.

U.K. - based glaciologist Adrian Luckman of Swansea University leads Project Midas, which tracks Larsen C.

«The big challenge of the future is to figure out these timescales,» says Eric Rignot, a glaciologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine.

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

«IceBridge surveyed previously unexplored parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet and did it using state - of - the - art CReSIS radars,» said study co-author Mark Fahnestock, an IceBridge science team member and glaciologist from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF - GI).

«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.

Dr Martin O'Leary, a Swansea University glaciologist and member of the MIDAS project team, said of the recent calving:

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