Seminar at Montclair State on January 31st, 2022
Asa visited Montclair State University on Jan. 31st, 2022, and gave a talk for The Doctoral Program in Environmental Science & Management, part of the MSU Sustainability Seminar Series.
News & Events
Sasha’s paper about terrain correction
Find it here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsen.2021.690474/full Leidman, Sasha. Z., Rennermalm, Å. K., Lathrop, R. G., & Cooper, Matthew. G. (2021). Terrain-Based Shadow Correction Method for Assessing Supraglacial Features on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2, 690474. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2021.690474
Journal of Glaciology paper published!
The paper is the most read in the Journal of Glaciology as I write this (Nov. 1st, 2021)! Rennermalm, Å. K., Hock, R., Covi, F., Xiao, J., Corti, G., Kingslake, J., et al. (2021). Shallow firn cores 1989–2019 in southwest Greenland’s percolation zone reveal decreasing density and ice layer thickness after 2012. Journal of Glaciology, … Read More
New article about safe fieldwork
We published a paper presenting a method to evaluate fieldwork conditions in places with extreme weather, such as the Greenland Ice Sheet. Here is the citation: Leidman, S. Z., Rennermalm, Å. K., Broccoli, A. J., van As, D., van den Broeke, M. R., Steffen, K., & Hubbard, A. (2020). Methods for Predicting the Likelihood of … Read More
Iva’s film about our 2018 expedition is out!
Iva Radivojevic’s film about our 2018 expedition to the Greenland ice sheet is out! See links to where you can see the film below. Field of Vision: https://fieldofvision.org/utuqaq Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/539368995 Youtube: https://youtu.be/heTTSN_MfUo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=920397292056005 Filmmaker Magazine: https://filmmakermagazine.com/111580-watch-iva-radivojevics-stunning-and-eerie-arctic-shot-short-utuqaq/#.YIG3an1Kj0o
Press about our GRL paper about microbes and sediment in ice sheet streams
My interview with Science Friday: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/greenland-melting-microbes/ Sasha’s interview with Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/sun-loving-bacteria-may-be-accelerating-glacial-melting/
Sasha’s paper published in GRL!
Sasha led this study about sediment in supraglacial streams. Find a Rutgers news release here: https://www.newswise.com/articles/greenland-melting-likely-increased-by-bacteria-in-sediment The article is here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL088444
Asa interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine about the impacts of covid-19 on Arctic fieldwork
Find the article here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-canceled-coronavirus-180974449/
Asa visits Lebanon Valley College
Asa visited Lebanon Valley College on March 10, 2020, to give the lecture “Witnessing climate change: What I have learned from my expeditions to the Greenland ice sheet” and meet with students and faculty.
New datasets on Arctic Data Center
Find our dataset with bias-corrected precipitation from selected stations in SE Greenland, regional climate model simulation outputs for Greenland, and a teaching module about the Greenland ice sheet and climate change at the Arctic Data Center: Precipitation: https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2ZC7RV13 Greenland regional climate model simulations: https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A21Z41T0T Teaching module: https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2TM7216N