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Alex Robel @iceclimate

Glaciologist, Climate Scientist, Applied Mathematician. Associate Professor @GeorgiaTechEAS. Miami born 🇧🇴-🇦🇷-🇺🇸 he/him

Joined September 2017
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Ali Sarhadi@Ali_Sarhadii
28 Oct 2024
Excited to share that I started earlier this year as an assistant professor at @GeorgiaTechEAS! If you are interested in researching climate risk and tropical cyclones (as a grad student or postdoc), feel free to get in touch. sarhadilab.org/
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The Cryosphere@EGU_TC
24 Oct 2024
New research article: Ice mélange melt changes observed water column stratification at a tidewater glacier in Greenland doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-4817-2…

Ice mélange melt changes observed water column stratification at a tidewater glacier in Greenland

Abstract. Glacial fjords often contain ice mélange, a frozen conglomeration of icebergs and sea ice, which has been postulated to influence both glacier dynamics and fjord circulation through coupled...

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Alex Robel@iceclimate
21 Oct 2024
🚨🚨 @GeorgiaTechEAS is searching an open-rank faculty position in "Ocean and Climate Sciences", with a particular interest in the cryosphere and sea level change! Applications due at link below Dec. 1. Reach out if interested. careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu…
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Georgia Tech Research
@GTResearch_
14 Oct 2024
.@GeorgiaTechEAS and @GaTech_Space's @francy_pants path to research was literally written in the stars. 💫🔭
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Donglai Yang 杨东来@alastairyang515
15 Oct 2024
Thrilled to announce my first first-author paper is now out on @igsoc ! Lots of thanks to my great advisors/mentors @crevassse @IceNowicki @bcsatho doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.50 (1/3)

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Int. Glaciol. Soc.@igsoc
14 Oct 2024
❄️ JGLAC paper alert ❄️ "Characteristics of dynamic thickness change across diverse outlet glacier geometries and basal conditions” by Donglai Yang, K Poinar, S Nowicki, B Csatho @alastairyang515 @crevassse @IceNowicki @bcsatho @UBGeology ➡ doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.50
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UF Gator Glaciology@GatorGlaciology
18 Sep 2024
Come be a gator! We're recruiting 1-2 PhD students this year to conduct research in geophysical glaciology topics. Learn more about us at gatorglaciology.com, and feel free to reach out if you have questions
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CPMLVandy@CpmlVandy
8 Sep 2024
Excited to share this highlight paper tc.copernicus.org/articles/1… recently published in The Cryosphere. It shows the importance of viscous deformations in the context of hydraulic fracture and supraglacial lake drainage. @MartinezPanedaE @moulinology

Ice viscosity governs hydraulic fracture that causes rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes

Abstract. Full-thickness crevasses can transport water from the glacier surface to the bedrock where high water pressures can open kilometre-long cracks along the basal interface, which can acceler...

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John-Morgan (JM) Manos@JohnMorganManos
27 Aug 2024
Thrilled to share that my first first-author paper is now published on @igsoc ! We use #DAS and a simple machine learning model to quantify glacier meltwater discharge of Rhonegletscher in Switzerlad! doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.46

DAS to discharge: using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to infer glacier runoff | Journal of...

DAS to discharge: using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to infer glacier runoff - Volume 70

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The Cryosphere@EGU_TC
27 Aug 2024
New research article: An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3841-2…

An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves

Abstract. The prescription of a simple and robust parameterization for calving is one of the most significant open problems in ice sheet modelling. One common approach to the modelling of crevasse...

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Carlos A. Alvarez@caalvarez03
22 Aug 2024
Replying to @JGREarthSurface @AssisWR
Aquatic barchan dunes interacting with each other. Video credit: Nicolao Lima.
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Alex Robel@iceclimate
22 Aug 2024
New (open access) study out from @mathieu_ice and colleagues in @ScienceAdvances finding no plausible scenarios under which runaway ice cliff failure occurs at @ThwaitesGlacier in the next 50 years science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet may not be vulnerable to marine ice cliff instability during the 21st...

The most extreme projections of ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are less likely than previously thought.

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Alex Robel@iceclimate
22 Aug 2024
I wrote a short focus piece on the last decade of modeling calving at tall ice cliffs, where these news results leave us, and where we can go from here science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

Antarctica’s ice cliff conundrum

Tall ice cliffs at a rapidly retreating glacier in West Antarctica may not be as vulnerable to runaway ice loss as previously thought.

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Yue (Olivia) Meng@OliviaMeng_Ice
11 Aug 2024
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Beatriz Recinos@bmrocean
14 Aug 2024
Very happy to work on this project with the wonderful colleagues who have mentored me and believe in my ability to do science!🥳new job title -> NERC IRF fellow @GeosciencesEd @EdinGlaciology ukri.org/news/early-career-s…

Early career scientists awarded distinguished NERC fellowships

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Island Prof 🏝🇯🇲@DrVasshe
12 Aug 2024
We use rock physics models to interpret InSight's seismic velocity and existing gravity data on Mars. We find that a mid-crust filled with liquid water best explains the data. pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn… 2/n

Liquid water in the Martian mid-crust | PNAS

Large volumes of liquid water transiently existed on the surface of Mars more than 3 billion years ago. Much of this water is hypothesized to have ...

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Some high-power theoretical stuff on the mechanics of ice layer formation in firn, a critical component for improved modeling of surface meltwater retention and routing in ice sheets. Led by Afzal Shadab, a @UTAustin Ph.D. student and @NASAJPL Intern. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…

A Mechanism for Ice Layer Formation in Glacial Firn

A new ice layer forms without meltwater perching when freezing localizes after a melt event as heat conduction dominates over advection Deeper ice layers form in warming climatic conditions where...

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If this verifies, could be a historically disastrous event for the Savannah and Charleston metro areas, where old infrastructure already struggles to handle a foot of sea level rise
National Weather Service
@NWS
4 Aug 2024
#Debby will drop A LOT of rain over the next few days. Potentially historic, heavy rainfall is forecast across southeast Georgia and South Carolina through Friday morning. This may mean areas of catastrophic flooding. Prepare now for this possibility and follow your local NWS forecast office for more: weather.gov/socialmedia
WPC 5-day forecast rainfall totals highlighted by >10" of rain from the Big Bend of Florida, across much of SE Georgia, and into South Carolina.

ALT WPC 5-day forecast rainfall totals highlighted by >10" of rain from the Big Bend of Florida, across much of SE Georgia, and into South Carolina.

WPC 5-day forecast rainfall totals highlighted by >10" of rain from the Big Bend of Florida, across much of SE Georgia, and into South Carolina.

ALT WPC 5-day forecast rainfall totals highlighted by >10" of rain from the Big Bend of Florida, across much of SE Georgia, and into South Carolina.

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