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A prominent glaciologist will spend 10 days gathering driftwood from Baffin Island and West Greenland in hopes that the wood will reveal new information about ocean currents, sea-ice extent, and sea level changes. The logic behind the study currently under consideration by the Nunavut Impact Review ...

More snow now melts on Mt. Hunter than at any time in the past 400 years, said Dominic Winski, a glaciologist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and lead author of the new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

"We have not seen snow melt like this in at least four centuries," lead author Dominic Winski, a glaciologist at Dartmouth College, told USA Today. For the study, Winski and 11 other researchers from Dartmouth College, the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire examined ice cores drilled ...

Dominic Winski, a glaciologist at Dartmouth College and lead author of the study said in a statement on the American Geophysical Union (AGU) website: “The natural climate system has changed since the onset of the anthropogenic era,” he said, referring to the era marked by the human impact on the ...

More snow now melts on Mt. Hunter than at any time in the past 400 years, said Dominic Winski, a glaciologist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and lead author of the new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

More snow now melts on Mt. Hunter than at any time in the past 400 years, Dominic Winski, a glaciologist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and lead author of the new study, said in a news release on Tuesday. The new study's results show the Alaska Range has been warming rapidly for ...

So a group of glaciologists is proposing a radical solution to buy us more time to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to climate change. ... John Moore, a glaciologist at Beijing Normal University in China, and his colleagues suggest three ways that the glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica contributing the ...

Greenland is melting rapidly, but some glaciers are disappearing faster than others. A new map of the surrounding seafloor helps explain why: Many of the fastest-melting glaciers sit atop deep fjords that allow Atlantic Ocean water to melt them from below. Researchers led by glaciologist Romain Millan of ...

It's tricky to estimate exactly when the massive chucks of ice will become extinct, but at least one glaciologist believes the glaciers of Iztaccihuatl, a dormant volcano and the country's third tallest, could be gone within the next decade—or even sooner.

“Ice cores can take us back centuries,” said Erich Osterberg, a Dartmouth glaciologist who led the research along with graduate student Karina Graeter. “It gives us that long-term context to see just how unusual is what's happening today.” Current melt rates may even be unprecedented over a time frame ...

“We understand the hesitancy to interfere with glaciers — as glaciologists, we know the pristine beauty of these places,” the authors continue. “But we have also stood on ice shelves that are now open ocean. If the world does nothing, ice sheets will keep shrinking and the losses will accelerate.” And even if ...

"We understand the hesitancy to interfere with glaciers — as glaciologists, we know the pristine beauty of these places," the group explains. "But we ... "It's important to emphasise that any sort of geoengineering is not a substitute for emissions reductions," one of the team, glaciologist Michael Wolovick from ...

Climate scientists and glaciologists from NIWA and Victoria University of Wellington have just completed their annual end of summer snowline flight over nearly 50 glaciers in the Southern Alps. ... In the late 1970s, glaciologist Dr Trevor Chinn carried out an inventory of all of New Zealand's glaciers.

The idea is that the white canvas blankets will be able to reflect sunlight away from the glacier. This might sound outlandish, but it's having a positive effect. Glaciologist David Volken told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the blankets can reduce the amount of ice that melts by around 70 percent, ...

Victoria University glaciologist Prof Andrew Mackintosh said he was expecting one of the largest melt years on record. "Our team has previously investigated the relationship between the South Island glaciers and sea surface temperatures. "We have seen that when the Tasman Sea is warmer than normal, ...

Climate scientists and glaciologists are taking to the skies to record the snowline altitude of up to 50 glaciers across the South Island. NIWA's annual long-term aerial snowline survey marks its 40th anniversary this year and is undertaken every March at the end of summer. The survey reveals how much of ...

While the team mobilises for the expedition, glaciologists and remote sensing specialists continue to monitor the movement of the Larsen C Ice Shelf. In December 2017, a team from University of Leeds worked on the remaining ice shelf to investigate changes in ice structure after the calving event, to be ...

It's continuing to shrink by as much as 8 inches on a hot day, and has retreated some 20 feet in the last three weeks, Swiss glaciologist David Volken tells AFP. The dirty blankets, easily mistaken for ice from afar, reflect sunlight and may help reduce melting by up to 70%, per Quartz. They allow Rhone ...

While the blankets are certainly a low-tech solution to this particular global warming crisis, they do appear to be having some positive results. In 2015, David Volken, a glaciologist working with the Swiss environment ministry, said in an interview that the blankets have been reducing melt by as much as 70 ...

The blankets are a simple fix, but they seem to help — Swiss glaciologist David Volken has previously suggested to Agence France-Presse that they may reduce melting by up to 70 percent. Similar protective coverings are used on other glaciers, as well, in places like Italy and Germany — and scientists ...

Every summer for the last eight years, people who live in the Swiss Alps have been wrapping a beloved glacier in blankets. The white canvas blankets are intended to reflect sunlight off the Rhone Glacier, to try to reduce how much of it disappears each year. And Swiss glaciologist David Volken says it's ...

Glaciologists, in other words, are renaissance people, capable of winding knowledge around multiple lures. By the end of this story, though, our glaciologist may have encountered too many inter-disciplines colliding with the outcome of his current studies. “The Glacier” might just be an examination of some ...

The man who posted the video is one Peter Neff, a glaciologist. He has BSc ... Glaciologists serve a vital role in studying past, present and future changes in climate, and their work is of the utmost important when it comes to understanding our planet and the challenges it is up against, particularly with rising ...

After Peter Neff and his team of fellow glaciologists wrapped up work in Antartica, they decided to have a bit of fun. He decided to see what exactly happened when he dropped a ... For more exciting insights into being a glaciologist, check out Neff's social media accounts. Neff documented much of his latest expedition to ...

How does debris affect and influence glacier hydrology? And how can particulate pollution on glaciers be measured? Kimberly Casey, a glaciologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, studied six glacier sites around the world to understand glacier debris pollution. Her work led her from the ...