{"id":109,"date":"2018-11-05T22:53:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2023-08-28T19:19:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T19:19:26","slug":"climate-science-at-ub","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/climate-science-at-ub\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate science at UB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ice flow on a Greenland glacier, 2013-2019\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/360186030?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-background-color\">This  Landsat 8 satellite image sequence shows ice flowing from northwest to southeast.   <br>Dark bands are medial moraines &#8212; pieces of rock scraped off of the mountains and carried away by the flow of the glacier.  You can trace each moraine upstream (NW) to its source region, where ice flows around a mountainside.<br>Scene center is 66.48\u00b0N, 36.07\u00b0W.<br>I made this video using Google Earth Engine. <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000\">We have a strong climate science and paleoclimate group at the University at Buffalo, with a particular emphasis on the Arctic.<\/span><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Dr. Bea Csatho <\/strong>leads the <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/rsl.geology.buffalo.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glaciology Remote Sensing Laboratory<\/a> in the Department of Geology.&nbsp; The RSL studies recent elevation changes of glaciers and ice sheets, especially the Greenland Ice Sheet and the East and West Antarctic Ice Sheets.&nbsp; She uses altimetry data from satellites and airplanes, photogrammetric data from ground and air, and is involved in NASA&#8217;s newest, latest, and greatest ice altimeter satellite, <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICESat-2<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Jason Briner<\/strong> leads the <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glyfac.buffalo.edu\/Faculty\/briner\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paleoclimate Laboratory<\/a> in the Department of Geology.&nbsp; The lab is also known as the <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glyfac.buffalo.edu\/Faculty\/briner\/buf\/lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glacier History Lab.<\/a> They use lake sediments, cosmogenic isotopes, and other methods to reconstruct the&nbsp; extent of Arctic and sub-Arctic glaciers in the recent past.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Dr. Elizabeth Thomas<\/strong> leads the <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glyfac.buffalo.edu\/Faculty\/ekthomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biogeochemistry Lab<\/a> in the Department of Geology.&nbsp; They analyze organic biomarkers in a suite of state-of-the-art chemistry machines in order to infer changes in rainfall, moisture source, and temperature over the Holocene.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Dr. Stuart Evans<\/strong> leads the <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/landatmosphere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Land-Atmosphere Group<\/a> in the Department of Geography.&nbsp; They study the effects of the the land surface, including dust emissions, on current and future climate by running large simulations through general circulation models and global climate models.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Dr. Sophie Nowicki<\/strong> leads the ice sheet and sea level lab in the Department of Geology.&nbsp; They study current and future projections of global sea level sourced from Earth&#8217;s ice sheets.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Dr. Kristin Poinar<\/strong> leads the <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\">Glacier Modeling Lab<\/a> in the Department of Geology.&nbsp; We use a combination of numeric models and remote sensing data to understand the dynamics driving observed changes in today&#8217;s glaciers and ice sheets, particularly the Greenland Ice Sheet.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2018\/11\/shutterstocktree-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2018\/11\/shutterstocktree-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2018\/11\/shutterstocktree-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2018\/11\/shutterstocktree-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2018\/11\/shutterstocktree.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(Shutterstock)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Earth was an ice planet for 20 million years\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/605701310?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; 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Dr. Bea Csatho leads the Glaciology Remote Sensing Laboratory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/climate-science-at-ub\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate science at UB<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}