Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
EUGENE, Ore., April 5, 2016—Erosion by summertime melt-driven streams on Greenland’s ice sheet shapes landscapes similarly to, but much faster than, rivers do on land, says a University of Oregon geologist. The approach used to study the ice sheet should help to broaden scientific understanding of melt rates and improve projections about glacial response to
Monday, February 15th, 2016
It has been nearly half a century since scientists have collected extensive climate or atmospheric data from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). But late last year, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, working with a group led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, embarked on a new project that
