#glaciologist

there is something comical about this tiny bird and their massive ice core drill

"An international team of researchers has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland “ - https://go.nasa.gov/2RYSqoK

Photographed for In Search of Optimism by Ed Marshall

PREMISE: Some cases go cold for days, weeks, or even years. But if a case has been cold for several millennia, it’s time to call in the Rock Squad. When a hitherto overlooked federal ordinance is discovered that requires FBI agents to clear cases from the entirety of known time, the Rock Squad is formed to deal with crimes deep in the geological record: Did a swamp knowingly swallow a Mastodon family alive? Did a tectonic plate slowly suffocate a sea to death? Was a large comet really responsible for thousands of acts of genocide? The Rock Squad is on the job to reach back many eons and down into the Earth’s core to solve the coldest cases around. CHARACTERS: You won’t find any geologist-detectives “boulder” than Ricky Mandrill and Tommy Chia, but the two couldn’t be more different. Mandrill is a slow and thorough glaciologist, always checking and double-checking his work, while Chia is a hot-blooded, igneous petrologist with an explosive temper. Mandrill has a steady relationship and a tenured position in a prestigious geology program, while Chia hops between grad students’ beds and is constantly scraping by on research grants. They have practically nothing in common save their love of science, and their confusion over why the cases they investigate are of any interest to the FBI in the first place. NOTABLE EPISODE: When a tourist accidentally kicks a rock loose in the the Grand Canyon, Mandrill and Chia discover a key index fossil that helps them correctly sequence the stratigraphy of sedimentary layers that their section chief called, “The greatest unsolved case of the Carboniferous Era” (S01.E04 – “Gneiss Work”). This episode came under fire when actual geologists complained that the composition of the layer in question has never been in doubt, and the rest of the viewers complained that they didn’t want to watch a show about “rock nerds.” CATCHPHRASE: “Let’s rock.” (Always followed by groans.) / “Cut the schist!” TRIVIA/MISCELLANY: The show spent most of its budget on rocks.

Sarah-Louise Simmons, 22 years old and a PhD student at the University of Bristol. I'm a glaciologist studying the effect of carbon runoff from Greenland on the Arctic Ocean. Here I am looking very cool on a glacier in Svalbard! Read more on my Svalbard adventure here: http://la-mooey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/svalbard-74-to-81-north.html

Donovan Power

My name is Erin Pettit, I am a glaciologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I study glaciers and ice sheets and their role in our changing climate - in Antarctica, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, and more. I also explore the mountains with a team of teenage girls each summer through my program called Girls on Ice.