April 27, 2018
Geophysical Sciences graduate student Grand Macdonald and Geophysical Sciences Professor Doug MacAyeal's recent research on Antarctic ice-shelf instability has been published in the most recent volumne of the Annals of Glaciology. They argue that the dimunition of the volume of lake water in July and August within lakes on Greenland's floating termini are caused by the transportation of meltwater into the ocean by river systems.
April 10, 2018
Graduate student Jade Checlair investigated whether tidally locked planets in habitable zones could ever be completely covered by ice, and her research has recently received popular attention online. Jade argues that tidally-locked planets could avoid a global ice-age because it would be difficult to completely glaciate the planet and they would possess a functioning silicate-weather feedback.
April 07, 2018
Graduate student Predrag Popovic and associate professor Dorian Abbot, along with coauthors, have published a new mathematical model to explain the patterns of melt ponds on Arctic Sea ice. Melt ponds are critical for sea ice albedo and therefore modeling the loss of sea ice with global warming in global climate models.