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Ice sheets
Passive Hydroacoustics Research Group
PI(s):
Dr. Delwayne R. Bohnenstiehl Underwater acoustic studies related to undersea earthquakes, marine mammals, Antarctic ice-sheets, ocean noise and explosion monitoring.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Airborne Gravimetry
PI(s):
Dr. Robin E. Bell An airborne geophysical program over West Antarctica was designed to study the linkage between the West Antarctic Rift System and the dynamic evolution of the overlying West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
GAMBIT: Gamburtsev Aerogeophysical Mapping of Bedrock and Ice Targets
PI(s):
Dr. Robin E. Bell
PI(s):
Dr. Michael Studinger Using geophysical instruments, GAMBIT will peal back more than 600 meters of ice to explore the last hidden mountain range on Earth.
AGAP: Exploring the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in Antarctica during the International Polar Year
PI(s):
Dr. Robin E. Bell
PI(s):
Dr. Michael Studinger Scientists from several nations are working together to launch a flagship program to explore a major mountain range buried by a large continental ice sheet and bounded by numerous subglacial lakes.
ICE Bridge
PI(s):
Dr. Michael Studinger
PI(s):
Dr. Robin E. Bell The Ice Sheets at both poles are changing - shrinking at increasing rates - rates that are faster than was ever expected by scientists.
| Name | Title | Fields of interest | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dr. Douglas G. Martinson | Doherty Senior Research Scientist | Oceans and their role in climate; onset and termination of ice ages. |
 | Dr. Michael Studinger | Doherty Research Scientist | Subglacial Lakes, Aerogeophysics, Tectonics, Glaciology, Antarctica, Studying Subglacial Lakes, Ice Sheet Dynamics and Tectonics in Antarctica with Aerogeophysics |
 | Dr. Robin E. Bell | Palisades Geophysical Institute Senior Research Scientist | Linkages between ice sheet processes and subglacial geology,Interaction of ecosystems and geologic systems from microbes to benthic habitats within the Hudson River, Tectonic uplift and feedback mechanisms |
- September 04, 2008
North American Ice Sheet Dwindled Fast in Conditions Like Today'sIn the face of warming climate, researchers have yet to agree on how much and how quickly melting of the Greenland ice sheet may contribute to sea level rise.
- January 25, 2006
Lying beneath more than two miles of Antarctic ice, Lake Vostok may be the best-known and largest subglacial lake in the world, but it is not alone down there. Scientists have identified more than 145 other lakes trapped under the ice. Until now, however, none have approached Vostok’s size or depth.
- March 14, 2006
The retreat of a massive ice sheet that once covered much of northern Europe has been described for the first time, and researchers believe it may provide a sneak preview of how present-day ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will act in the face of global warming.
- October 09, 2009
Starting this month, a giant NASA DC-8 aircraft loaded with geophysical instruments and scientists will buzz at low level over the coasts of West Antarctica, where ice sheets are collapsing at a pace far beyond what scientists expected a few years ago.
| Extreme Science | An Antarctic Expedition in Search of Lost Mountains | |
| Changes in the Arctic and Antarctic | As Described by Robin Bell | |
| A Slippery Slope? | The Water World Beneath the Changing Ice Sheets | |
| Polar Regions | Research at Lamont | |
| The Ice Beneath Their Feet | Two Scientists, One Frigid Continent, and the Thrill of Discovery |
