Ice sheet modeling to inform sea level rise planning
At AGU 2024, in Washington, DC, I had the opportunity to illuminate the need for applied ice sheet modeling. Ice sheet modeling started out as a niche, obscure,…
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2023
Gearing up to host FOGSS 2024
The University of Idaho will host the 2024 Future of Greenland ice Sheet Science (FOGSS) workshop April 3-5. The workshop will take place on the UI campus, in Moscow,…
Strong showing at AGU 2023!
The UI Glacier Dynamics lab group and alums made an outstanding impression at the AGU fall meeting in SF last week. Six of us attended and shared their most recent work:…
2022
UI Glacier Dynamics hosts meeting of Northwest Glaciologists
Our group was so proud to host the 50th anniversary of the meeting of Northwest Glaciologists, here at UI, on Oct. 14-15, 2022. We had nearly 60 attendees for about 40…
Congratulations to Chris Miele and Dakota Pyles!
We're so proud of our two most recent lab group graduates, who graduated this last summer. Dr. Chris Miele received his Ph.D. with a dissertation titled "Shearing…
UI Glacier Dynamics participates in Symposium on Maritime Glaciers
Lab group members Verenis Lucas, Yoram Terleth, Bruno Belotti, and Tim Bartholomaus participated in the International Glaciological Society's Symposium on Maritime…
2021
Three new Ph.D. students join UI Glacier Dynamics lab
With the addition of Verenis Lucas, Yoram Terleth, and Bruno Belotti, our lab group has grown to five graduate student researchers. Verenis will be working on…
2020
Two, new, funded Ph.D. opportunities for 2021!
The Univ. of Idaho Glacier Dynamics lab is very pleased to announce two new opportunities for prospective Ph.D. students, to start Fall 2021, or potentially earlier. To…
Field work at Turner Glacier hugely successful
The joint U Idaho and BSU field team had a phenomenally successful first field season at Turner Glacier this fall. We installed 26 different geophysical instruments on…
Group assembles for outdoor, socially-distanced conference
The UI Glacier Dynamics Group gathered for three afternoons, Oct 14-16, in Tim's driveway and garage to participate in the annual Northwest Glaciologists' meeting. Ph.D.…
Glacier moss balls captivate public imagination
Glacier moss balls, and the mystery behind their motion, gained international attention this summer, following a publication in Polar Biology . Group leader Tim…
New grant enables understanding of unstable glacier flow
Prof. Tim Bartholomaus and partners have received a $1.2M grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to understand the connections between glacier sliding and the…
Emma Swaninger defends M.S. thesis!
Master of Science candidate Emma Swaninger did a phenomenal job presenting and defending the results of her last two years of research. Among other findings, Emma…
Glacier moss balls exhibit mysterious herd-like motion
Glacier moss balls are globular, ~10 cm masses of moss, with small amounts of sediment found on some glaciers. These enigmatic, rare components of glacier biology have…
Chris Miele defends dissertation proposal, advances to Ph.D. candidate
Ph.D. student Chris Miele, in the UI Glacier Dynamics lab, successfully defended his dissertation proposal today. His dissertation, titled "Transition zones in floating…
2019
UI grad students present at Northwest Glaciologists meeting
Three UI students, Chris Miele, Emma Swaninger, and Abby Lute, attended the 2019 Northwest Glaciologists meeting in Corvallis, Oregon, last week. Chris and Emma are…
Lab group prepares for Northwest Glaciologists' meeting
Members of the Glacier Dynamics lab at UIdaho are preparing this week for next week's gathering of Northwest Glaciologists. Chris Miele will present a theory-based…
Lab group members updated!
The group members for the Glacier Dynamics Lab at the University of Idaho have been updated! Check out the
Conference symposium highlights latest in Glacier Seismology
At the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics meeting in Montreal, Canada, Bartholomaus co-convened and presented during a symposium on Glacier Seismology. The…
Bartholomaus-mentored Ph.D. student wins Early Career Award for outstanding paper
Denis Felikson has been awarded the 2019 Early Career Award by the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences. Tim Bartholomaus had the privilege of working with…
Tristan Amaral defends M.S. thesis
UI Glacier Dynamics lab member Tristan Amaral recently gave an excellent summary of his master's thesis research, "Validation of iceberg calving models on Greenland…
2018
Ph.D. opportunity in Greenland tidewater glacier dynamics
The Glaciers Dynamics lab at the University of Idaho seeks a curious, hard-working, quantitatively-oriented Ph.D. student to study tidewater glacier dynamics around the…
Student researchers advance understanding of iceberg calving
Thanks to the hardworking team of student researchers who worked together over the summer on our NASA-funded project to understand iceberg calving around the Greenland…
PhD student opp. to study calving in Greenland
The of UMaine, will draw on a wide variety of remotely sensed imagery, oceanographic data, and timelapse photography to evaluate terminus boundary conditions (calving…
2017
Glaciology student wins college-wide award
Congratulations to Margot Vore for winning the "Outstanding Research Poster" award at the annual UIdaho College of Science student research fair! Margot's presentation…
Research group presents at Northwest Glaciologists in Vancouver, BC
The UI Glacier Dynamics Group traveled to the annual meeting of Northwest Glaciologists in mid-October to present their latest research and share ideas with other…
Seismometers, GPS recovered from Alaskan glacier
In September, UI grad student Tristan Amaral, Juneau local Mary Gianotti, and I traveled up to the Lemon Creek Glacier to recover seismic and other equipment set up at…
Welcoming new graduate student Tristan Amaral
The Glacier Dynamics lab at UIdaho welcomes Tristan Amaral this semester. Tristan will be working on a NASA and NSF-funded project to examine the controls on calving…
New papers on glacier thinning, form of MSGLs, and subglacial discharge plumes
Several new papers published this summer exemplify the diversity of our research group's interests and methodologies. Thanks to the outstanding scientists and co-authors…
U Idaho group presents and participates in international workshops
It's been a busy summer for the Glacier Dynamics group, with a number of high-profile presentations focused around glacier seismology. In June, Tim participated in back…
New paper reveals the factors that allow glacier advance
While glacier advance is extremely rare, study of advancing glaciers offers a more complete picture of glacier dynamics and the factors that enable such advances. In…
Setting up my scientific computing environment
I use macs at work due to their fluid interface with the unix environment, and their ability to run unix/linux programs. I've recently bought a new mac, which has…
2016
Understanding subglacial hydrology through seismology
Last week, I visited the Boise State Geosciences department to give a seminar on the use of seismology to understand subglacial water flow and sediment transport. I…
Seismic data collected from Taku Glacier
I'm just back from Taku Glacier, Alaska, where UI grad student Margot Vore, UT-Austin grad student Taylor Borgfeldt, and I retrieved new seismic data from a network set…
Welcoming Margot Vore
I'm excited to welcome Margot Vore to my glacier dynamics group at UI. Margot will be working to better understand the flow of water through and under glaciers, through…
Glacier Dynamics at the University of Idaho
This fall, I've moved to the University of Idaho to begin work as an Assistant Professor and expand my lab group. I've begun working with a graduate student who will…
Seismology for glaciology
I'll be giving a talk in the plenary session on Renaissance Seismology: Seismology for Non-Traditional Targets at the upcoming IRIS National Workshop , in Vancouver, WA.…
New papers on ice-ocean interactions, glacier seismicity and subglacial hydrology accepted
Three new papers are now in press in Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Glaciology and the Annals of Glaciology. These papers are: Bartholomaus, T. C. , L. A.…
What's our fieldwork like in Greenland? Watch and see
The Uummannaq region of West Greenland is a spectacular area of steep cliffs, icefalls, and long fjords. While on a NASA-funded research project to better Sophie Gilbert…
@TimBartholomaus, now on Twitter
I've begun tweeting, under the handle @TimBartholomaus. I'm commenting about glaciology, sea level rise, climate science, polar and alpine field work, and science in…
2015
Press write-up of AGU presentation
One of my two presentations at the AGU fall meeting this year is the subject of a well done blog post . In the presentation, my co-authors and I reported the detection…
Promotion to UTIG research staff
I'm pleased to report that I've been promoted from Postdoctoral Fellow to Research Associate, at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics in Austin, Texas. I'll…
Third successful Greenland field season
After spending September in Greenland, the UT/KU team has returned from our third and final field season in the Uummannaq region of western Greenland. We recovered…
Published: Subglacial water flow observed through seismic tremor
A new study , published August 10 in Geophysical Research Letters , demonstrates how seismic tremor can be used to track variations in the flow of water emerging from…
Three new papers now in review
Over the last month, I've had the pleasure of submitting three, new, first-author papers for peer review with a diverse set of co-authors. These papers are a combination…
Plenary talk at the Earthscope National Meeting
Tim will be attending the 2015 Earthscope National Meeting in Stowe, VT, to deliver a plenary talk on the use of seismology and GPS to learn about glacier dynamics. This…
Tim joins editorial board of Frontiers in Cryospheric Science
This new journal, expected to launch in May 2015, responds to the rapid growth in cryospheric research and provides authors with a more open, transparent, and rapid…
Ice sheet model implements extension of Bartholomaus et al. (2011)
In work from several years ago, co-authors and I developed a model of subglacial and englacial water storage that reproduces some of the characteristic patterns of…
Novel views of iceberg calving presented at PARCA
At the annual meeting of the Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA) hosted at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, I'll be presenting new data that…
2014
Presentations and sessions at AGU
This year, I'll be giving an invited talk in one of the ice/ocean interaction sessions, and convening another session focused on iceberg calving and submarine melt at…
Tim participates in international workshop to guide Greenland ice-ocean research
During the last several days, I have taken part in an international workshop to identify the major gaps in the scientific community's understanding of interactions…
Published: "Termini of calving glaciers as self-organized critical systems"
Our paper on the extreme sensitivity of calving termini is
New perspective on calving in press at Nature Geoscience
A new study, of which I am a co-author, examines globally-collected observations of iceberg calving and novel model results to present a new framework for understanding…
Watch a presentation of my research
I recently presented an overview of my research program to date at the weekly seminar of the Univ. of Texas Institute for Geophysics. You can view it here . In this…
An extraordinary field season
Earlier this month, our joint Univ. of Texas and Univ. of Kansas team returned from West Greenland, where we collected data regarding the behavior of ocean-terminating…
Preparing for AGU
At the annual meeting this December, I'll be making an invited presentation and co-convening a different session. On behalf of AGU's Cryosphere focus group, I am serving…
Understanding iceberg calving
I've recently co-authored an accessible review of recent research into iceberg calving. You can read it by clicking here . Approximately half of the ice loss from the…
Going to sea to study glaciers
I recently joined the UT Marine Geology and Geophysics field course on the Gulf of Mexico to learn about methods to study the seafloor. When deployed at the fronts of…
New technology for understanding glacier motion
This week, I've been in Fairbanks learning how to use radar to gain an unprecedentedly sharp view of glacier motion. We'll be deploying this technology in Greenland this…
Understanding tidewater glacier change in Greenland
A very nice summary of the main project I am working on has just been published here . With interviews and photos, Marcy Davis describes the goals for our work and the…
Anticipating new data
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,…
100+ citations
My co-authors' and my 2008 paper on subglacial hydrology and basal motion, published in Nature Geoscience , has now received over 100 citations. In Bartholomaus et al.…
2013
Presentation at AGU awarded
My final AGU talk as a graduate student has been awarded an Outstanding Student Presentation Award. Thanks to all of the judges and administrators for the time…
Profiles by the UAF Center for Global Change
The UAF Center for Global Change (CGC) has recently published a short profile about my work , while the Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research (CIFAR) reported on a…
Many thanks!
I successfully passed my defense on Oct. 17th, and had a wonderful celebration with many friends and family. I expect to receive my Ph.D. in several weeks, after…
Dissertation defense on Oct. 17th!
I'll be defending my Ph.D. dissertation in just two weeks--on Thursday, October 17th, at 8:30 am, in the Elvey Auditorium of the Geophysical Institute at UAF. My title…
Most recent paper on ocean melt and iceberg calving reviewed
My friend, Bob McNabb , has written a summary of the paper Chris Larsen , Shad O'Neel , and I just published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. You can read Bob's…
Manuscript on submarine melt of the glacier terminus accepted for publication
The Yahtse Glacier Project's latest study will be published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. In this study, Chris Larsen, Shad O'Neel and I show that…
Welcome to Greenland!
We're mid-way through 2.5 weeks of work at three adjacent ocean-terminating outlets of the Greenland Ice Sheet and our project is off to a great start. I'm presently…
Teaching glaciology on a glacier
Last weekend, I had the great pleasure of spending time on the Kennicott Glacier with students from the Wrangell Mountains Center 's environmental studies program. While…
Two sessions accepted for inclusion in this year's AGU Fall Meeting
I will be co-convening topical sessions on Ice-Ocean-Sediment Interactions and Seismicity of the Cryosphere. My co-conveners for the Ice-Ocean-Sediment Interactions…
Survey of glacier change in Alaska covered by NBC's TODAY show
The national morning show has produced a short video segment describing UAF's aerial surveying of Alaska's glaciers. During the glacier surveying work I described in my…
Measuring the size and shape of Alaska's glaciers
In late May, I traveled to southeast Alaska as part of a team measuring the changing size of Alaska's glaciers. The vast majority of Alaska's glaciers are getting…
Start to a new collaboration
I will continue my research on the behavior of ocean-terminating glaciers as a postdoctoral fellow in 2014. I'm very excited to have accepted a postdoctoral fellowship…
Teaching about Glaciers at UAF
This semester, I had the opportunity to teach the Glaciers third of an 80-person, freshman-level course on Glaciers, Volcanoes and Earthquakes. I enjoyed engaging with…