HIELOANTAR
Snow and ice are pervasive elements of high latitude environmental systems and have an active role in the global environment. The glaciology program is concerned with the study of the history and dynamics of all naturally occurring forms of snow and ice, including floating ice, seasonal snow, glaciers, and continental and marine ice sheets. Program emphases include paleoenvironments from ice cores, ice dynamics, numerical modeling, glacial geology, and remote sensing of ice sheets. Some specific objectives include the correlation of climatic fluctuations evident in Antarctic ice cores with data from arctic and lower-latitude ice cores, the integration of the ice record with the terrestrial and marine records, the investigation of the physics of fast glacier flow with emphasis on processes at glacier beds, the investigation of ice-shelf stability and the identification and quantification of the feedback between ice dynamics and climate change.
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