Girls on Ice presentations July 24, 2012 at GI
Girls on Ice is a unique, free, wilderness science education program for high school girls. Each year two teams of nine teenage girls and three instructors spend 11 days exploring and learning about mountain glaciers and the alpine landscape through scientific field studies with professional glaciologists, ecologists, artists, and mountaineers.
Standing in the middle of the ice age
Matthew Sturm points out the horn of a steppe bison.
Photo by Ned Rozell.
FOX, ALASKA — Bison have not thundered through this neighborhood for thousands of years. But there’s one now, Matthew Sturm said, as he pointed to a horn cemented in a cold, dark wall 30 feet beneath the boreal forest.
Alaska Science Forum: Standing in the middle of the ice age
by nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
FOX, ALASKA — Bison have not thundered through this neighborhood for thousands of years. But there’s one now, Matthew Sturm said, as he pointed to a horn cemented in a cold, dark wall 30 feet beneath the boreal forest.
UAF researchers poised to gain international partnerships
When 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.
PDF DownloadAlaska Science Forum: Arctic lakes getting a closer look
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.
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
