GI research gains AGU attention, high readership
The work of Geophysical Institute Research Assistant Professor Guido Grosse and colleagues has been spotlighted by the American Geophysical Union. Grosse is the lead author of “Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance,” a comprehensive investigation into climate change impacts on soil carbon storage in the far north appearing in the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Vol. 116.
Study of a dying glacier
Matt Druckenmiller, right, and his research advisor Hajo Eicken, a professor of Geophysics, on an ice floe near Barrow.
Photo by Daniel Pringle.
Yakutat Glacier, near the Alaska town of the same name and flowing from the mountains near the Canada border, calves into a lake as deep as an ocean bay. The icefield that feeds Yakutat is large enough to cover the five boroughs of New York City. Despite its bulk, the glacier is doomed unless we experience a drastic change in climate.
Assessing the influence of Alaska glaciers is slippery work
