UAF researchers poised to gain international partnerships

Release Date: 2012-07-12

PISM Greenland imageWhen a small team of glaciologists and mathematicians at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute developed the Parallel Ice Sheet Model in 2003, they had no idea that the software program would rise to international prominence.

 

Alaska Science Forum: Arctic lakes getting a closer look

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2012-05-25
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Arctic lakes examined
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Guido Grosse: "These lakes change pretty rapidly even on a human timescale.”

 

By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

 

Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but Alaska has more than that in the great expanse of flatlands north of the Brooks Range. These ubiquitous far-north bodies of water — most of them formed by the disappearance of ancient, buried ice that dimples the landscape as it thaws — make the maps of Alaska’s coastal plain look like Swiss cheese.

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Arctic lakes getting a closer look

Guido Grosse and Benjamin Jones drill a hole through the ice of Teshekpuk Lake on a recent mission to learn more about lakes in the Arctic.

Photo by Chris Arp.

Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but Alaska has more than that in the great expanse of flatlands north of the Brooks Range. These ubiquitous far-north bodies of water — most of them formed by the disappearance of ancient, buried ice that dimples the landscape as it thaws — make the maps of Alaska’s coastal plain look like Swiss cheese.

The tiny universe on the surface of Alaska glaciers

Nozomu Takeuchi, a glacial biologist on Gulkana Glacier in the Alaska Range.

Photo by Ned Rozell.

A scientist wearing plastic boots and crampons knelt on Gulkana Glacier and pointed at the king of beasts, a snow flea. 

 

Scientists in Europe favor modeling program developed in Alaska, host workshop

Release Date: 2012-05-21

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