We meet weekly in the Glacier Modeling Lab to learn from each other and from external sources.
Spring 2024
Meeting time: Wednesdays 11:00-12:00
Location: Hochstetter 439
- January 24 : Semester planning: Group meeting format, goals, and skeleton schedule
- January 31 : Team and personal goal setting at the semester scale (SMART goals framework provided by Mary)
- February 7 : Paper discussion of “Accelerating subglacial hydrology for ice sheet models with deep learning methods” by Verjans & Robel (2023), led by Courtney
- February 14 : ❤️ Research talk by Jessica Mejia, “Field and model-based observations of crevasses draining the firn aquifer at Helheim Glacier, Greenland” ❤️
- February 21 : 5-person research share
This actually ended up being a 2-person research share because Naureen’s results were so compelling and incited a lot of discussion - February 28 : 5-person research share (three people from last week who did not go)
- March 6 : Webpage update work hour with snacks (Kristin)
- March 13 : Paper discussion of “Snow bedforms: A review, new data, and a formation model” by Filhol and Strum, led by Jess
- March 20 : Spring break, no meeting
- March 27 : 5-person research share
- April 3 : Paper discussion led by Kristin
- April 10 : Ghub workshop – no group meeting
- April 17 : 5-person research share (Drive to Northeast Glaciologists’ meeting this afternoon)
- April 24 : Paper discussion of “” led by Naureen
- May 1 : Paper discussion of “”, led by Mary
- May 8 : Group hike!
- May 15 : End of semester goal redux
Past meetings
Archived here.
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 – “Evaluation of modeled subglacial discharge from the Antarctic Ice Sheet to the Southern Ocean”
- Findings from my summer research practicum at Los Alamos National Labs
- September 13 : Paper discussion
- Chudley et al. preprint, Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins
- September 20 : Jessica Mejia – “” (new field results from Helheim Glacier, Greenland)
- September 27 : Paper discussion of “Modeling surface-roughness/solar-ablation feedback: application to small-scale surface channels and crevasses of the Greenland ice sheet” by Cathles et al., 2011
- 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 : Corn maze trip on Friday November 3
- November 8 : Comprehensive Exam practice talk by Courtney Shafer
- November 15 : Paper discussion led by Naureen Khan
- November 22 : Happy Thanksgiving!
- November 29 : Prep for photographer; Early preview of AGU poster by Naureen Khan, “DeepLearning-based Crevasse Detection from Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery on the Greenland Ice Sheet“
- December 6 : Practice talk (AGU) by Jessica Mejia: “Integrating Observations and Modeling to Investigate Firn Aquifer Hydrology and its Role in Crevasse Propagation on Helheim Glacier“
- December 8 : Visit by UB photographer Meredith Kulwicki to write a story about work in the Glacier Modeling Lab
- December 13 : AGU (San Francisco)
Past meetings
Archived here.