Since arriving at UTIG in January, I've been continuing to explore how seismology can
inform us about glacier behavior. Now, with the summer field season approaching,
colleagues and I are preparing to return to Greenland and recover a year's worth of data
on tidewater glacier and fjord interactions.
Planning is
now in full swing with colleagues here at the University of Texas Institute for
Geophysics, as well as the Univ. of Kansas, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., and
NASA, to return to the coast of western Greenland. Our teams of glaciologists and
oceanographers will be in the field from mid-July through mid-August to collect data
recorded since July 2013, and reset instruments for another year of remote operation.
We all are excited to see how our equipment managed through the harsh winter at 71
degrees N, at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
The data we collect will
help us better understand some of the intricacies of glacier response to changing
climate, and project how Greenland's glaciers may continue to change in the face of
ongoing climate change.