Sentences with phrase «of glaciologists»

In recent years, a number of glaciologists have claimed that man - made global warming has had the opposite effect and glaciers across the world are melting dramatically.

I've put out a query to a batch of glaciologists for more thoughts and will update this post when they reply.

Here, at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide, Kendrick Taylor and his team of glaciologists drill into ancient ice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snow.

Having a map of Jakobshavn's bed has been a long - time goal of glaciologists.

It hopes to unite the international community of glaciologists in order to carry out at least another ten or so drilling missions at various glaciers around the world, both those of scientific interest and those threatened by climate change.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

«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.

«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.

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.

«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.

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.»

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.

Studies by glaciologist Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine and others suggest that ice sheets could melt faster than scientists initially thought.

To perform a kind of forensic analysis of the avalanche, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences joined with two glaciologists from The Ohio State University: Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and research scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC), and Ellen Mosley - Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in Geography and director of BPCRC.

A better understanding of how and why the Larsen C crack expanded so quickly could help scientists better predict the future of all Antarctic ice shelves, says Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Penn State.

Computer simulations suggest that the central part of the shelf will speed up, now that a piece of its buttress has been removed, says glaciologist Adrian Luckman of Swansea University in Wales, who will analyze satellite data as part of the effort.

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.

By 2001, glaciologists had built up a three - dimensional picture of Greenland's bedrock, but the resolution was fairly poor so many features were invisible, says Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, UK.

«Everyone was fooled by the collapse of a mountain,» says Martin Luethi, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich, who has been studying Greenland's glaciers since 1995.

«This work has characterized the surge in exceptional detail,» says Duncan Quincey, a glaciologist at the University of Leeds in England, who was not involved in the study.

The parallels with the decline of Larsen B are striking, says Adrian Luckman, a glaciologist at Swansea University, UK, who heads a team that has monitored the Larsen C ice crack for several years.