Atmosphere, Oceans, Climate
and Ice: Dynamics and Chemistry
This Gulf of Alaska Storm (21 October, 2005) created surface gravity waves (sea swell) felt as far away as the location of iceberg B15A. B15A broke up in response to the arrival of these waves off Cape Adare in Antarctica.
Drilling a 16 meter ice core on the Ross Ice Shelf to install temperature sensors (to detect surface melting) and recover a shallow ice core for geochemical and physical analysis.
Earth's fluid envelope inspires problems of Atmosphere, Ocean, Ice and Climate dynamics.
Calving at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This series of time lapse images was created by Jason Amundson, Martin Truffer and Mark Fahnestock, of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska. Image sequences like this are very important stimuli for research undertaken by glaciologists at the Department.
The "fluids" section of the department contributes to the understanding of Earth's fluid envelope, climate change, and the physics and chemistry of Earth's environment. Research groups in the department focus on the following sub areas of research:
Paleoceanography and chemical oceanography
Stratospheric chemistry and dynamics
Faculty
• David Archer
• Fred Ciesla
• Albert Colman
• John Frederick
• Michael LaBarbera
• Doug MacAyeal
• Pamela Martin
• Liz Moyer
• Noboru Nakamura
• Raymond Pierrehumbert
• Frank Richter
• Ramesh C. Srivastava
