Facebook. Canada's Arctic glaciers headed for unstoppable thaw: study. Scientists say Canada's glaciers are headed for unstoppable thaw. Sean Kilpatrick via Reuters Lowell Glacier rises from waters in Kluane National Park, near Haines Junction in Canada's Yukon Territory.
By Alister Doyle, Reuters OSLO, Norway — Canadian glaciers that are the world's third biggest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland seem headed for an irreversible melt that will push up sea levels, scientists said Thursday. About 20 percent of the ice in glaciers, on islands such as Ellesmere or Devon off northern Canada, could vanish by the end of the 21st century in a melt that would add 1.4 inch (3.5 cm) to global sea levels, they said.
Governments are trying to understand every possible centimeter of sea level rise caused by global warming, to plan how to protect cities from New York to Shanghai or low-lying coasts from Ghana to Bangladesh. A total melt of the glaciers would take several centuries. Majestic icebergs tower above Arctic Circle as 160ft waterfall crashes from melting glacier into frozen sea. Breathtaking images captured by photographer Hans Strand, 57, on journey through Greenland, Iceland and NorwayMr Strand covered more than 1,000 miles of ocean on his daring expeditionThe Swedish tutor says he was once almost killed by a collapsing ice cave in the dangerous North.
Interactive map of Canada's newest northern scientists. Map instructions Click on the compass icons on the map for a detailed look at some of the exciting research happening now in Canada’s north.
The yellow symbols on the map represent the geographical spread of research conducted by W. Garfield Weston Award recipients over the past five years The W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research and W. The W. Source: Courtesy of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Source for data: The W. Suddenly There's A Meadow In The Ocean With 'Flowers' Everywhere : Krulwich Wonders... It was three, maybe four o'clock in the morning when he first saw them.
Grad student Jeff Bowman was on the deck of a ship; he and a University of Washington biology team were on their way back from the North Pole. It was cold outside, the temperature had just dropped, and as the dawn broke, he could see a few, then more, then even more of these little flowery things, growing on the frozen sea. "I was absolutely astounded," he says. They were little protrusions of ice, delicate, like snowflakes. They began growing in the dry, cold air "like a meadow spreading off in all directions. "Frost flowers," he was told. Cryosphere Climate Research Group. A long-term observational study is now underway in the southern Alberta foothills, with ca. 400 backcountry weather stations expected to be in place by August 2005.
The observational grid covers an area of ca. 200 km by 120 km, extending from the continental divide to the agricultural lands east of Calgary. The first phase of the Foothills Climate Array (FCA) will operate for 10 years in the foothills region. The primary objective is to characterize the spatial-temporal patterns of meteorological variability and to develop physically-based models of the controls of topography and surface environment on surface weather patterns. Insights from the FCA will be used to develop improved climate downscaling strategies, climate change impact assessments, and boundary-layer process parameterizations in mesoscale climate models. Dr. Brian Lanoil. Contact Room: M 458, Biological Sciences Phone: (780) 248-1452 Fax: (780) 492-9234 Email: brian.lanoil@ualberta.ca Thesis Title: Development and Application of Genomic DNA Based Methods for the Identification and Characterization of Marine Bacterioplankton Thesis Advisor: Dr.
Stephen Giovannoni, Professor of Microbiology, California Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Scholar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences, 1998-2001. Postdoctral Advisor: Dr. Subglacial and Polar Microbiology. Related Projects: 1.
Arctic metagenomicsThe vast majority of Earth’s biosphere exists in permanently cold environments, including polar regions (14% of surface area) and deep ocean (90% by volume). Microorganisms are often the sole or dominant (both numerically and in terms of biomass) inhabitants of widespread cold environments such as subglacial systems, high arctic tundra soils, ice cores, and sub-ice marine environments. A central question in my research program is: how do microorganisms adapt at the molecular, organism, and community levels to conditions of continuous cold over evolutionarily and geologically relevant time scales? Russian Geographical Society - Moscow Centre. Laboratorio de Glaciología.
GLACIOLOGY GROUP UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Glaciology is the study of ice in the environment.
Important components are seasonal snow, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets and frozen ground. Glaciology at the University of Washington includes course curriculum and research related to all of these components of ice in the environment. Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University. GLACIOLOGY. North Cascade Glacier Climate Project. Glaciology Atlas - by Steen Thomsen. Dette atlas er ikke en glaciologisk lærebog, men illustrationerne til een.
Her er 117 billeder fra bræer / jøkler / gletchere. Klik på billede for stor størrelse. Indhold: 0. Glaciologisk forside <-- HER 1. Brætyper 2. GLIMS: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) World Data Centre for Glaciology, Cambridge. Glaciers online. Arctic and Alpine Research Group. Cryospheric Research: Snow, Ice, and Permafrost. International Glaciological Society (IGS) Glaciology. Spectacular ice caves photographed for the first time deep beneath Swiss Gorner Glacier. By Alex Ward Published: 14:36 GMT, 21 November 2012 | Updated: 15:27 GMT, 21 November 2012 These spectacular ice caves deep below a Swiss glacier have been mapped, photographed and surveyed for the first time.
A team of eight descended into the moulins – vertical shafts – below the Gorner Glacier near Zermatt in October. Their work inside the remarkable icy caverns will help researchers get a better understanding of glaciers and their rate of melting. Descending the depths: A team of eight climbed down the moulins - vertical shafts - in the Gorner Glacier near Zermatt in Switzerland.