Once again, news of the world from San Francisco

Glaciologist Chris Larsen took this photo of surging, cracked-up Bering Glacier in 2010. The glacier may have stopped its several-year period of get-up-and-go.

Chris Larsen photo.

 

SAN FRANCISCO — For the thirteenth straight year, I’m happy to be spending one week of December here, at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where more than 15,000 scientists gather for a week to discuss the latest news of the world.

 

Here are a few items from the first two days:

GI presence strong at AGU Fall Meeting

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2011-12-07
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GI presence strong at AGU Fall Meeting
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Event draws more than 21,000 attendees, media

 

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Alaska Satellite Facility
Atmospheric Science
Education Group
Outreach Office
Poker Flat
Remote Sensing
Seismology
Snow Ice Permafrost
Space Physics
Tectonics and Sedimentation
Volcanology

Petrich to work at the Northern Research Institute in Narvik, Norway

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2011-12-05
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Petrich to leave the GI
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Relocating to Norway for research

Petrich receives coin from Smith

As of Jan. 1, 2012, Chris Petrich will begin work at the Northern Research Institute (Norut) in Narvik, Norway. Petrich will be working on ice-related issues as part of a team of researchers. For a start, he will continue his work on oil-in-ice and other issues of relevance to Norway, including ice loads in hydropower dams. 

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Directors Office
Remote Sensing
Snow Ice Permafrost

High risk of permafrost thaw: GI scientists weigh in on Nature commentary

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2011-12-01
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High risk of permafrost thaw
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GI scientists weigh in on Nature commentary

 

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Outreach Office
Snow Ice Permafrost

Graduate student opportunities in sea ice research at the Geophysical Institute

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2011-11-30
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Students needed for sea ice research
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Multiple positions available

 

Graduate students are needed to fill positions at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (applicants for Ph.D. program preferred, but strong applications for M.S. program will be considered, also for topics in sea-ice research other than those outlined below):

 

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Human Resources
Outreach Office
Snow Ice Permafrost

A better look at Greenland glaciers on the go

Ryan Cassotto, left, of the University of New Hampshire and Martin Truffer of the University of Alaska use radar to monitor “KNS” glacier in Greenland in summer 2011.

Photo courtesy Martin Truffer.

Using some of the great datasets available today, Mark Fahnestock figured the average winter temperatures of the Arctic from the time he was born until he was 10 years old. He compared that data to the same period in his son’s life, finding the Arctic has warmed about five degrees since Fahnestock was his son’s age. All that warmth affects things, the scientist said at a recent meeting in Fairbanks.

 

Alaska Science Forum: A better look at Greenland glaciers on the go

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2011-11-28
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Greenland glaciers on the go
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GI scientists zero-in on glacial change

 

glacier fieldworkBy Ned Rozell

 

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Outreach Office
Snow Ice Permafrost

GI Quarterly Report now available

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2011-10-27
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GI Quarterly Report
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Research news available now

Read up on some of the latest research news in the current edition of the Geophysical Institute Quarterly Report. Glaciers, thermokarst lakes, the 20th anniversary of the Alaska Satellite Facility, GI's new Education Group and details on our new director, Bob McCoy, are all available in this new, extended edition of the Quarterly. 

 

View the pdf here or request a copy of the publication through the Outreach Office. Email info [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu with your requests.

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Alaska Satellite Facility
Design Services
Education Group
Outreach Office
Snow Ice Permafrost
Space Physics

Thermokarst research gets attention

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2011-10-21
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JGR Biogeosciences highlights Jones
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Thermokarst gets attention

 

Ben Jones, Geophysical Institute doctoral student in the Snow, Ice and Permafrost group, is lead author of “Modern thermokarst lake dynamics in the continuous permafrost zone, northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska,” appearing in the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, volume 116. The article was also featured in the Editors’ Highlight section of the journal. 

 

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Snow Ice Permafrost

Nature features GI Professors Bernard Coakley and Hajo Eicken

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2011-10-14
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GI profs. in Nature
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News feature covers scientific challenges of work in the Arctic

 

Professors Bernard Coakley and Hajo Eicken are included in a special feature titled "Scientific challenges in the Arctic: Open water" in this week's edition of Nature. The publication is an international weekly journal of science.

 

Read the detailed report here.

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Outreach Office
Snow Ice Permafrost
Tectonics and Sedimentation

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