Class infographics on components of the cryosphere

In our class this semester we did an exercise where groups of students created an infographic summarizing what are the known observations of various components of the cryosphere. The data was all taken from the IPCC AR5, which is getting somewhat dated now, but the main messages of the observed change still hold, as do the principles of distilling the information and presenting in a memorable way.

The students did a good job of pulling together graphical summaries and presenting them to the class. Here is the very professional and impressive example from the team looking at Arctic sea ice:

Credit: N Gampierakis, P. Schmitt and C. Winter, 2019.

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Environmental scientist. I am glaciologist specialising in glacier-climate interactions to better understand the climate system. The point of this is to understand how glaciated envionments might change in the future - how the glaciers will respond and what the impact on associated water resources and hazard potential will be.
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