Group meetings

We meet weekly in the Glacier Modeling Lab to learn from each other and from external sources.

Fall 2023

Meeting time: Wednesdays 3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern time
Location: Hochstetter 439

Goals and themes:

  • Grow our glaciology brains by reading and discussing papers and seeing each other present research in progress
  • Spur research output by presenting results to each other even at early dates, before results are fully ready
  • Discuss important current issues in science, glaciology, and EDI

Weekly Schedule:

  • August 30 : Goal-setting and group expectations document
  • September 6 : Courtney Shafer – “” (findings from my summer research practicum at Los Alamos National Labs)
  • September 13 : Paper discussion
  • September 20 : Jessica Mejia – “” (new field results from Helheim Glacier, Greenland)
  • September 27 : Paper discussion
    • Chosen and led by Mary Verné
  • October 4 : Naureen Khan: “Automated crevasse detection on the Greenland Ice Sheet”
    • Courtney Shafer: Seismoelectric exploration of a perennial firn aquifer at Helheim Glacier, Greenland
  • October 11 : Kristin Poinar: Practice talk for the Vail Symposium, “Water, crevasses, and glacier dynamics above Helheim Glacier, Southeast Greenland”
  • October 18 : Integrating diversity and inclusion considerations into your graduate admissions rubric
    • Web workshop hosted by the Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center at the Univ. Southern California
  • October 25 : Webpage update work hour
  • November 1 :
  • November 8 :
  • November 15 :
  • November 22 :
  • November 29 : Happy Thanksgiving!
  • December 6 :
  • December 13 : AGU (San Francisco)

Past meetings

Archived here.