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Are the snows of Greenland pristine or polluted?
I recently prepared a blog for Der Standard an Austrian newspaper entitled: Wie unberührt ist Grönlands Schnee? I say prepared as really it was re-written by my colleague Elisabeth Schlosser to make the German sound more native! Anyway here is … Continue reading
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3D numerical model of englacial transport
Anna Wirbels first PhD paper is out, and downloadable from my publications page (Wirbel et al., 2018). What she has done is take an existing freely available 3D model of ice flow (icetools; Jarosch et al., 2008) that employs the … Continue reading
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Featured on the cover of Geosciences Vol 7, No. 3
Well, a nice surprise at the start of the year: Hannah Prantls paper on mapping glacier snow cover extent and snow line elevation using terrestrial laser scanner signal returns is featured on the cover of Geosciences Vol 7, No. 3. … Continue reading
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Visualizing the retreat of Hintereisferner
Hinteresiferner is the best-studied glacier in Austria with one of the longest records of glacier mass balance in the world. There are relatively abundant old maps and the oldest photographs of Hintereisferner date back to 1884, only 30 years after … Continue reading
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Determining supraglacial debris thickness from terrestrial photographs
Big shout out to my colleague Jordan Mertes for an excellent and fun collaboration – our new paper in Journal of Glaciology is online now. Nicholson, L. and Mertes, J. (2017) Thickness estimation of supraglacial debris above ice cliff exposures … Continue reading
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