Summer research/internship made possible by the Kolkenkow/Reitz Fund from Carleton College with Regine Hock, Anthony Ardent, and the Glaciology Dept at University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. The focus is on modeling mass balance and discharge of the Gulkana Glacier in Alaska and applying a climate change scenario in order to determine the magnitude of the effects of climate change on the Gulkana glacier and how the melt water will contribute to total sea level rise.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Day 1
8am-5pm
-Permafrost Tunnels with the International Summer School in Glaciology program.
This program was put on by the glaciology dept. for graduate students. They were in McCarthy for 10 days. I really hope I can do this one day. We went to the permafrost tunnels run by the Army Core of Engineers. It was really neat. There are giant ice wedges and frozen bacteria and mammoth bones.
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/snowice/glaciers/events/summer_school/
http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/cem/ine/permafrost_tunnel/permafrost-tunnel.xml
-Attended an afternoon lecture series about snow, ice, and permafrost
It was really informative. Lots of stuff I didnt understand but it was a good introduction and I enjoyed hearing about all the projects going on at UAF centered about arctic research.
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