Science news articles about 'university glacier'Scientist says New Zealand's biggest glacier shrinking
... in recent history, a scientist said Thursday. The Tasman Glacier on South Island was 18 miles long in ... , with virtually no lake at its front edge, Massey University glacier expert Martin Brook said.Researchers study spread of lake trout in Glacier National Park
... important role in preventing lake trout from spreading through Glacier National Park, so maintaining those barriers should be a priority, Montana State University researchers said ... Research team draws 150-meter ice core from McCall Glacier
... Core Drilling Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison pulled the cores from the glacier, one meter at a time, ... ice sheets not warm, flowing valley glaciers."
At 150 meters, drillers hit a rock ... Germans try to slow glacier melt with giant screen
German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the icy mass, Johannes Gutenberg University said Thursday.Glaciers In The Pyrenees: Fewer Than 45 Years Left, Says Study
... high mountain areas of the Iberian Peninsula. A Spanish research study states that active glaciers in the Pyrenees, which they say have seen a steady increase in temperature (0.9°C since 1890), will ... As Andean glacier retreats, tiny life forms swiftly move in, CU-Boulder study shows
... of the microscopic diversity in high alpine regions.
Another unexpected finding on the Puca Glacier was how microbes stabilized the soil and prevented erosion on the slope by using their filament- ... Small glaciers -- not large -- account for most of Greenland's recent loss of ice, study shows
... ,373 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers). They found that while two of the largest glaciers in that area – Kangerdlugssuaq and Helheim – contribute more to the total ice loss than any other ... Researchers attribute thinning of Greenland glacier to ocean warming preceded by atmospheric changes
... Ocean Science, part of New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, suggests that ocean temperatures may be more important for glacier flow than previously thought.
The project ... Scientists probe Antarctic glaciers for clues to past and future sea level
... the ice of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, appears to be losing ice at its downstream edge.
The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences has teamed up with the University of ... Scientists discover concealed glaciers on Mars at mid-latitudes
... of Los Angeles, and up to one-half-mile thick, and there are many more," said John W. Holt of The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, lead author of a report on the radar ... Wind screen on the Rhone glacier in Switzerland creates cold air cushion
... at the wind screen and in its close vicinity. 'Our test wind screen set up on the Rhone glacier resulted in a definite cooling of the air near the surface, with the drop in temperature being up to ... NASA Finds Glacial Sediments Adding to Louisiana Coast's Sinking
... finds that sediments deposited into the Mississippi River delta thousands of years ago when North America's glaciers retreated are contributing to the ongoing sinking of Louisiana's coastline.Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland Loss
... in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by NASA and university scientists.Scientists head to warming Alaska on ice core expedition
... , ground-penetrating radar to determine the ice thickness and internal structure on specific glaciers. They will be looking for “layer-cake” ice with clear, well-defined annual stratigraphy.
A clear ... Warming climate is changing life on global scale, says new study
... Center for Climate Systems Research. Both are affiliates of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Rosenzweig and researchers from 10 other institutions across the world analyzed data from ...
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Scientist says New Zealand's biggest glacier shrinking
... in recent history, a scientist said Thursday. The Tasman Glacier on South Island was 18 miles long in ... , with virtually no lake at its front edge, Massey University glacier expert Martin Brook said.Researchers study spread of lake trout in Glacier National Park
... important role in preventing lake trout from spreading through Glacier National Park, so maintaining those barriers should be a priority, Montana State University researchers said ...Research team draws 150-meter ice core from McCall Glacier
... Core Drilling Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison pulled the cores from the glacier, one meter at a time, ... ice sheets not warm, flowing valley glaciers." At 150 meters, drillers hit a rock ...Germans try to slow glacier melt with giant screen
German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the icy mass, Johannes Gutenberg University said Thursday.Glaciers In The Pyrenees: Fewer Than 45 Years Left, Says Study
... high mountain areas of the Iberian Peninsula. A Spanish research study states that active glaciers in the Pyrenees, which they say have seen a steady increase in temperature (0.9°C since 1890), will ...As Andean glacier retreats, tiny life forms swiftly move in, CU-Boulder study shows
... of the microscopic diversity in high alpine regions. Another unexpected finding on the Puca Glacier was how microbes stabilized the soil and prevented erosion on the slope by using their filament- ...Small glaciers -- not large -- account for most of Greenland's recent loss of ice, study shows
... ,373 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers). They found that while two of the largest glaciers in that area – Kangerdlugssuaq and Helheim – contribute more to the total ice loss than any other ...Researchers attribute thinning of Greenland glacier to ocean warming preceded by atmospheric changes
... Ocean Science, part of New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, suggests that ocean temperatures may be more important for glacier flow than previously thought. The project ...Scientists probe Antarctic glaciers for clues to past and future sea level
... the ice of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, appears to be losing ice at its downstream edge. The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences has teamed up with the University of ...Scientists discover concealed glaciers on Mars at mid-latitudes
... of Los Angeles, and up to one-half-mile thick, and there are many more," said John W. Holt of The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, lead author of a report on the radar ...Wind screen on the Rhone glacier in Switzerland creates cold air cushion
... at the wind screen and in its close vicinity. 'Our test wind screen set up on the Rhone glacier resulted in a definite cooling of the air near the surface, with the drop in temperature being up to ...NASA Finds Glacial Sediments Adding to Louisiana Coast's Sinking
... finds that sediments deposited into the Mississippi River delta thousands of years ago when North America's glaciers retreated are contributing to the ongoing sinking of Louisiana's coastline.Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland Loss
... in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by NASA and university scientists.Scientists head to warming Alaska on ice core expedition
... , ground-penetrating radar to determine the ice thickness and internal structure on specific glaciers. They will be looking for “layer-cake” ice with clear, well-defined annual stratigraphy. A clear ...Warming climate is changing life on global scale, says new study
... Center for Climate Systems Research. Both are affiliates of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Rosenzweig and researchers from 10 other institutions across the world analyzed data from ...