{"id":41,"date":"2018-11-02T22:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:34:26","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"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=\"Retreat of Midgard Glacier, Greenland, 2000-2019\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/360694802?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Midgard Glacier in East Greenland has retreated ~10 kilometers up its fjord since 2000.<br>Scene center is 66.44\u00b0N, 36.74\u00b0W.<strong>  <\/strong><br>I made this video using Google Earth Engine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<header class=\"entry-header\">Dr. Kristin Poinar studies earth\u2019s ice sheets, especially the Greenland Ice Sheet, as well as Antarctica and past ice sheets (e.g., the Laurentide).\u00a0 She and her group ask questions about ice dynamics and the interactions between ice flow and liquid water.\u00a0 How, when, and where does surface melt water get to the ice-sheet bed, and how does this affect ice dynamics?\u00a0 The group writes and uses numeric models of specific ice-sheet processes, informed and validated by remote sensing products, to investigate how Earth&#8217;s ice sheets work.\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-3\" class=\"post-3 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-featured\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-blog-display output-the-content jetpack-the-content\">\n<div class=\"introtext text parbase section\">\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33\" src=\"https:\/\/bgmlab.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/p7240112-e1531346577224.jpg?w=1100\" alt=\"Ilulissat Icefjord\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland, where icebergs from Jakobshavn Glacier float by on their journey to the ocean.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"title section\">\n<h2 id=\"title_940524706\">Student research<\/h2>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">There are opportunities for undergraduate, Master&#8217;s, and PhD work in my lab, for students with quantitative backgrounds and interests.\u00a0 If a certain research topic interests you, send me an email or drop in to my office to tell me why you\u2019d be a good fit!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Research topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Model-based investigations of glacier flow, including glacier testbed modeling<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/research\/research-formation-of-moulins\/\">Formation of moulins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/research\/research-crevasse-fields\/\">Crevasse field<\/a> locations and prediction<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/research\/research-firn-aquifer-drainage\/\">Firn aquifers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Formation and life cycle of crevasses on mountain glaciers<\/li>\n<li>Flow of surface meltwater across glaciers and ice sheets<\/li>\n<li>Subsurface meltwater <\/li>\n<li>Permafrost on the periphery of current or past ice sheets<\/li>\n<li>Recent history and near future of particular Greenland glaciers, e.g. Helheim Glacier<\/li>\n<li>Model-based investigations of glacier history (this sometimes relates to glacial geology)<\/li>\n<li>Surging glaciers<\/li>\n<li>Supraglacial streams that incise deep <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/group-members\/joshua-charlton-research\/\">canyons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/agu.confex.com\/agu\/fm18\/meetingapp.cgi\/Paper\/453462\">Englacial fracture network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalo.edu\/renew\/research\/seed-projects.host.html\/content\/shared\/www\/renew\/seed-projects\/6th-Round\/probing-sub-ice-sediments.detail.html\">Detection of subglacial tills<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Seismoelectric geophysics on ice<\/li>\n<li>Sidewall stresses and ice flow of outlet glaciers (Greenland\/Antarctica) or ice streams (Antarctica)<\/li>\n<li>Glacier seismicity from the opening or propagation of crevasses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theghub.org\">GHub<\/a>, an online data and computing hub centered around Greenland glaciology<\/li>\n<li>Sub-ice geology and basal characteristics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and more! \u00a0 Drop me a note and we&#8217;ll explore a research fit!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":178} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" class=\"wp-image-178\" src=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2019\/08\/IMG_5332_gilkey_crop_sm-1024x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2019\/08\/IMG_5332_gilkey_crop_sm-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2019\/08\/IMG_5332_gilkey_crop_sm-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2019\/08\/IMG_5332_gilkey_crop_sm-768x419.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n<figcaption>The Gilkey Glacier trench, Juneau Icefield, Alaska. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jirp.org\">www.jirp.org<\/a>.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kristin Poinar studies earth\u2019s ice sheets, especially the Greenland Ice Sheet, as well as Antarctica and past ice sheets (e.g., the Laurentide).\u00a0 She and her group ask questions about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research<\/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-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/glaciermodelinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}