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Aerial view of snowdrifts at a lake in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range in Alaska
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Census of Snowdrifts in Northern Alaska

by David Shultz 2 December 2020

Snowdrifts prove less ephemeral than they might seem, occurring in the same places year after year.

Three scientists, one digging a hole, sample soil from a dry valley in Antarctica.
Posted inNews

Antarctic Ice Cores Might Be Older Than Dirt

by J. Hendricks 6 February 2020

Using cosmogenic nuclide dating, scientists determined a 10-meter core just below the surface to be over a million years old.

A research vessel next to Arctic ice
Posted inNews

Light Permeates Seasonally Through Arctic Sea Ice

by Katherine Kornei 6 September 2019

The transmission of sunlight through Arctic sea ice depends on the presence of ice, snow, and melt ponds, data collected over 6 years reveal.

An overview of interactions and feedbacks between ice sheets and the Earth system
Posted inEditors' Vox

Icy Interactions

by J. Fyke, Olga Sergienko, M. Löfverström, S. Price and J. Lenaerts 13 July 2018

Complex interactions between ice sheets and other components of the Earth system determine how ice sheets contribute to sea level rise.

A new method combines elevation change with other data to estimate debris thickness on glaciers
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Novel Way to Map Debris Thickness on Himalayan Glaciers

by Terri Cook 29 May 2018

By combining changes in elevation with other data, scientists have developed a method for estimating the thickness of debris covering glaciers on whose water more than 800 million people depend.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Ice-Penetrating Radar Reveals Age of Greenland Ice Sheet Layers

by Terri Cook 13 August 201514 August 2015

First comprehensive analysis of deep radar data gives insight into the dynamics and history of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tracking the Sources and Sinks of Antarctica’s Subglacial Waterways

by C. Schultz 2 September 201424 July 2015

Researchers examined the water flowing into and out of several Antarctic ice streams to determine the cause of a recent observed slowdown of some of these ice streams.

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