The mid-latitudes of Mars are littered with numerous debris-covered glaciers, deposited some several hundred million years ago and composed of pure water ice under a surface debris layer. As a record of Martian climate history and a potential resource for future manned missions to Mars, they are of high interest to UTIG graduate students… Continue Reading Field Report: Testing New Ways to Collect Data on Sourdough Rock Glacier
Lucas Beem’s Origin Story: How He Became a Climate Scientist
If not for a flunked semester of pre-medicine that landed him on academic suspension, UTIG postdoctoral fellow Lucas Beem might be checking tonsils instead of glacial records. Continue Reading Lucas Beem’s Origin Story: How He Became a Climate Scientist
UTIG Featured in Earth & Space Science News
Postdoctoral Fellow Timothy Bartholomaus’ research is gaining notoriety with the scientific community. Continue Reading UTIG Featured in Earth & Space Science News
An Unexpected Discovery
helping understand how glaciers and ice sheets melt into the ocean Continue Reading An Unexpected Discovery
The Earthquake That Changed Science and a State
To most people, 50 years might seem like a long time to look back. That isn’t the case for many residents of our 49th state, Alaska — especially not on this day. It was on this day in 1964, at 5:36 p.m. Alaskan Standard Time, that a fault rupture triggered the most powerful earthquake in… Continue Reading The Earthquake That Changed Science and a State