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

Spring 2023

Meeting time: Thursdays from 11:00am-12:00pm Eastern time
Location: Hochstetter 439

Have workshops where we produce tangible outputs, e.g. progress writing our theses, papers, or proposals
Read and discuss papers
Discuss important current issues in science, glaciology, and EDI

February 2 : Science talk by Jessica Mejia – Basal sliding in the Greenland ablation zone
February 9 : Jessica Mejia
February 16 : EDI discussion
- An unlimited (within 1 hour) discussion on racism, sexism/LGBTQ+ issues, microaggressions, etc.
- The goals are to keep EDI topics as part of our group relationship, and to find ways any of us could improve our education or actions with respect to these.
February 23 : Dedicated paper / proposal writing hour
March 2 : Paper discussion
- Gowan et al., The impact of spatially varying ice sheet basal conditions on sliding at glacial time scales, published in Journal of Glaciology on 30 January 2023
- We summarized our discussion on this Notion board.
March 9 : Pre-presentations
- Courtney Shafer: Seismoelectric exploration of a perennial firn aquifer at Helheim Glacier, Greenland
- Naureen Khan: Automated crevasse detection on the Greenland Ice Sheet
March 16 : Half day writing retreat organized by Courtney
March 23 : Spring break, no meeting
March 30 : Paper discussion led by Donglai
- Schmidt et al., Heterogeneous melting near the Thwaites Glacier grounding line, published in Nature on 15 February 2023
April 6 : Dedicated paper / proposal writing hour
April 13 : No meeting, group will be at Northeast Glaciologists meeting
April 20 : Glaciology talk video from IGS
April 27 : Webpage update work hour
May 4 : Glaciology talk video from IGS
May 11 :

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