you seem fairly adept at the internet, so I think you can maybe put this together. Give me a holler if you need a hint. 

And starting early next year, you’ll be able to be advised by a glaciologist at CSM

It is *literally* in our textbook that this (more snowfall) is what should be happening. Here’s figure 4.6a from Cuffey & Paterson’s “The Physics of Glaciers, 4ed.” The whole argument is exhausting.

I’ll keep commenting as long as @themadstone keeps writing 😸

Because I’m a pedant, I have to note that WISSARD was not an “ice core” project, so our drill rig did not look like the picture you posted. We were more interested in what was below the ice instead of the ice itself, so we wanted to get through the ice as quickly as possible. The best solution is a firehose of hot…

Well you’re in luck. Sort of. A 20 min video about a different NASA airborne campaign in Greenland (Operation IceBridge) just came out last week.

Melting glaciers and ice sheets also change the earth’s gravity field, which controls the “settling” you described. So *where* the water comes from is important for how much sea level will go up in certain places. 1 foot of sea level equivalent from Antarctica is way, way worse for the east coast than 1 foot from…

The “gaining” reports always (with a single exception in the past decade or so) refer to sea ice, not land ice. Though Antarctic sea ice is pretty low right now too. But land ice (the stuff that can contribute to sea level) is solidly in the L column right now.

Hah, no. I study LCIS from air and space, not ground. Though colleagues of mine have collected ground data there. I did get back from Antarctica a month or so ago, but I was across the continent on the Whillans Ice Stream.

GIven that I (and my peers) have needed to correct non-scientists, students, and seasoned researchers alike about sea ice/ice shelf/land ice differences, I err on the side of caution and make sure we’re all on the same page. Not trying to offend you, or question your intelligence, or anything like that—-just lots and…

That’s sea ice, which is frozen ocean. Article above is about an ice shelf, which is glacier ice (originally snow) that has flowed off land and is now floating on the ocean. They act differently, respond to different parts of the system, etc. Both are important of course, but just making sure we’re all on the same…

You guys are all forgetting about the (still unfinished!) Burrito Bracket. His most important contribution to society.

If they stopwatch’d his entire jump, you probably could independently confirm who is right based on the height of his jump and his hang time (because...gravity)

High Sierra Showerhead (http://amzn.to/1WONdhb). I don’t usually partake in these things, but I gotta promote some California small business. Sips water (1.5gpm) and just as powerful as any shower I’ve used. Great for those of us with water restrictions and/or morals. Plus TriRig did a great review of it: http://www.tr…

High Sierra Showerhead (http://amzn.to/1WONdhb). I don’t usually partake in these things, but I gotta promote some…

Just POO: SLW is not under the Ross Ice Shelf. It's under the Whillans Ice Stream. The Ross Sea is under the Ross Ice Shelf.

I'm more pissed about other companies gloating that they didn't rep LA, when they do just as much bad shit too. Like Hammer Nutrition saying on Twitter, "Lots of results being taken away these days. Hammer Nutrition: Real Athletes, Real Results, for 25 years. That's all we gotta say about that!" Yeah, except your…

world records are rarely set in championship style races. no rabbits, everyone is keeping an eye on everyone else. the lack of a rabbit makes rudisha's WR that much more impressive. look forward to a slow, tactical marathon tomorrow.

If you fall asleep on the top bunk before a flip, you wake up on the bottom bunk 90 degrees later. My school has lots of silly toys...

They stopped drilling on Feb 7th last year. The polar plateau is, uh, really cold.

In theory you want a different type of drill (as Priscu talks about) to avoid contamination.