Past group meetings: Fall 2021

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

Fall 2021

Goals and themes:

  • Roughly every three weeks, read and discuss a current glaciology paper
  • Roughly every three weeks, have a workshop where we produce tangible outputs related to science, career, or outreach

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

Fall 2021

Goals and themes:

  • Roughly every three weeks, read and discuss a current glaciology paper
  • Roughly every three weeks, have a workshop where we produce tangible outputs related to science, career, or outreach

Schedule

Meeting history (Fall 2021)

  • Week 1 [Sept 2] : Glacier Modeling Lab goals and group expectations: In the books!
  • Week 2 [Sept 10]: Career goals and make the schedule!
  • Week 3 [Sept 17]: Scientific workflow Q&A
    • Led by Donglai ⭐
  • Week 4 [Sept 24]: Journal club, co-led by Jess and Kristin
    • Paper: Willcocks, Hasterok, & Jennings (2021). Thermal refraction: implications for subglacial heat flux. Journal of Glaciology 67(265), 875–884. doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.38
    • Tips for reading:
      1. Read the title & abstract. [5 minutes]
      2. Scroll through and look at all the figures and read their captions. [15 minutes]
      3. Read the conclusion. [5 minutes]
      4. Go back to the start and read the whole paper, but skim the methods and read in detail the Discussion and Introduction. [20 minutes]
    • Group discussion output: ✏️ We summarized our reading of this paper on this Notion board (link). 🧠
  • Week 5 [Oct 1]: How to apply to graduate school workshop, led by Courtney, Donglai, Jess, and Naureen.
  • Week 6 [Oct 8]: Website research biography editing workshop (1 of 2)
  • Week 7 [Oct 15]: Journal club, led by Donglai
    • Paper: Felikson et al. (2017), Inland thinning on the Greenland ice sheet controlled by outlet glacier geometry. doi:10.1038/ngeo2934
    • Tips for reading:
      • Read the title & abstract. [5 minutes]
      • Scroll through and look at all the figures and read their captions. [15 minutes]
      • Read the conclusion. [5 minutes]
      • Go back to the start and read the whole paper, but skim the methods and read in detail the Discussion and Introduction. [20 minutes]
  • Week 8 [Oct 22]: Cambria Corn Maze!
    • A group of people with goats and an alpaca
  • Week 9 [Oct 29]: Buggy code 🕸 and spooky CV ⚰️ workshop!
    • Demo by Jess on her code debugging process
    • Showcase of our existing CVs and time in person to revise
  • Week 10 [Nov 5]: Journal club, led by Courtney
    • Paper: Bons, P. D., T. Kleiner, M.‐G. Llorens, D. J. Prior, and T. Sachau. Greenland Ice Sheet: Higher Nonlinearity of Ice Flow Significantly Reduces Estimated Basal Motion. Geophysical Research Letters 45, 6542–6548 (2018), doi:10.1029/2018GL078356
    • Tips for reading:
      • Read the title & abstract. [5 minutes]
      • Scroll through and look at all the figures and read their captions. [15 minutes]
      • Read the conclusion. [5 minutes]
      • Go back to the start and read the whole paper, but skim the methods and read in detail the Discussion and Introduction. [20 minutes]
  • Week 11 [Nov 12]: Website research biography editing workshop (2 of 2)
  • Week 12 [Nov 19]: Journal club, led by Naureen
    • Paper:
  • Week 13 [Thanksgiving]: No meeting