Last weekend, I had the great pleasure of spending time on the Kennicott Glacier with students from the Wrangell Mountains Center‘s environmental studies program. While standing between streams of glacier meltwater, I lectured to our undergraduate students on the importance … Continued
I will be co-convening topical sessions on Ice-Ocean-Sediment Interactions and Seismicity of the Cryosphere. My co-conveners for the Ice-Ocean-Sediment Interactions session (session OS010) are Katie Boldt (Univ. of Wash.), Carlos Moffat (Univ. of Concepcion, Chile), and Martin Truffer (Univ. of … Continued
The national morning show has produced a short video segment describing UAF’s aerial surveying of Alaska’s glaciers. During the glacier surveying work I described in my last post (June 3rd), our UAF team was joined by the TODAY show. They … Continued
In late May, I traveled to southeast Alaska as part of a team measuring the changing size of Alaska’s glaciers. The vast majority of Alaska’s glaciers are getting smaller. There is significant on-the-ground, geological evidence for this and in-depth studies … Continued
I will continue my research on the behavior of ocean-terminating glaciers as a postdoctoral fellow in 2014. I’m very excited to have accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas. I’ll be working with a great team to learn … Continued
This semester, I had the opportunity to teach the Glaciers third of an 80-person, freshman-level course on Glaciers, Volcanoes and Earthquakes. I enjoyed engaging with my students and watching as their interest in glaciology expanded. Like I learned when I … Continued