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Progress on UTM weather station

Progress on UTM weather station

Today the UTM permanent weather station reached its final height of over 10 meters (about 35 ft.). Here are some photos of the progress so far. Below is the first photo I took today, after we had assembled the bottom two sections of the tower.  The third section of tower lies beside it and the [...]

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A 3-D look at the recent retreat on the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru

A 3-D look at the recent retreat on the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru

I have been simultaneously conducting research on both the Quelccaya Ice Cap in the high Peruvian Andes, and the Greenland Ice Sheet. The Quelccaya project has been funded by a number of grants over the years, most recently a through the CIRES Innovative Research Program (co-authored with Anton Seimon). The Greenland project has been funded by grants [...]

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