Sentences with phrase «of glaciology»

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.

Co-author Prof Tony Payne, a professor of glaciology from the University of Bristol, explains to Carbon Brief:

These discipline - specific activities serve an important role as international forums for developing and comparing models in the individual fields of glaciology and oceanography.

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.

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.

I admit to a limited knowledge of glaciology.

According to Sharp, the focus of the findings also marks an important milestone from the perspective of glaciology, which traditionally focuses on sea level as the most direct consequence of the impact of climate change on glaciers.

Not exact matches

The IASOS has over 60 researchers from glaciology to biology and oceans policy, as well as the same number of students who are doing postgraduate courses, masters, or PhDs.

«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.

That fact is scientifically supported and not controversial among scientists who study climate from a broad range of disciplines, including geology, geophysics, geography, paleoclimatology, glaciology, hydrology, ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental studies and oceanography.

«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.

Much of our field - based geology, glaciology, and terrestrial biology is supported from Rothera.

«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.

«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.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists examining everything from glaciology to freshwater ecology discovered drastic changes over the past decade to the world's largest High Arctic lake.

As of 2016, USAP - DC is partnered with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) to manage glaciology data for the US Antarctic Program.

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.

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].

We will also address aspects of applied science like oceanology, limnology, and glaciology.

The structural glaciology of George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula.

Sit back, relax and enjoy vibrant stories from the onboard tour guide, including the history of the lake and its earliest explorers, along with the geology, glaciology, flora & fauna of the area.

The main thrust of the paper, the part getting all the press, arises from the confluence of several recent developments in 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.

Pfeffer et al. were not merely responding to public opinion, but also the way that the fate of Greenland was being discussed seriously among the glaciology community.

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.

The NASA icesat & glaciology study that showed Antarctic continental ice mass increasing with declining snow fall for decades, and melt area limited to ~ 2 % of coastal Antarctica.

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.

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.

Robert Claiborne realized that he was getting different and conflicting time sequences between anthropology and glaciology courses when studying the natural influences on the pattern and sequence of human history.

It actually covers climate modeling, solar and atmospheric physics, temperature measurement, phenomena of clouds, precipitation, sea levels, and glaciology, as related to climate change.

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.

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.

«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.

Bradley, R.S. and England, J., 1978: Recent climatic fluctuations of the Canadian High Arctic and their significance for 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.

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.

«We're doing about the most we can do right now to study the possible collapse of the west ice sheet,» said Dr. Richard Cameron, NSF program manager for glaciology.