If you were taking a college course called “Science Fiction or Science Fact?” that focused on critiquing the science in movies, what movies would you want to watch?
Twister?
The Day After Tomorrow?
Jurassic Park?
Toss me some ideas!
I had a lovely dinner last night with some esteemed senior ladies in glaciology that I’m lucky to call friends. From left to right: Helen Fricker, Ginny Catania, Sophie Nowicki, Leigh Stearns, Twila Moon, & me! #AGU25
Come talk to me at #AGU25 this week & work towards a chance to win $100 through Cryosphere BINGO! I’m chairing Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere sessions on Mon & Tues and giving a talk in session C34B on Wednesday!
Highlights from the end of the year @BoiseState (so far): celebrating university awards w/ awesome grad students, getting a teaching award from grad students at our dept. picnic, & getting a gift for “badgering” students to do required paperwork
I can’t believe it… I won a Presidential Early Career Achievement in Science and Engineering (PECASE) award! I was nominated for my NASA-funded research on cryosphere remote sensing. Check of the Whitehouse Press release: www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
Just 2 Associate Professors (me + Jenn Mallette) celebrating the end of the Fall ‘24 semester with a 6-mile Christmas run! I may not be fast but I toughed it out even with a bad case of laryngitis. #Boise @boisestate.bsky.social
When your football team has their conference championship game at 6pm and your office is next to the stadium (behind the fireworks in the gif), you need to be prepared for an afternoon full of stadium music while you work! At least I’ll be pumped up!
Fall CryoGARS Glaciology group photo! I always try to build a sense of community in my group & part of that effort includes hosting a group party each semester. No undergrads were free but all my grads came: (L to R) Aman K C, Rainey Aberle, Karina Zikan, Parker Wilkerson, & Lindsay Summers
I lectured on my research to an intro geoscience class yesterday. I had 2 students stay after to ask about impacts of land ice loss beyond sea level rise. I told them about slowing global ocean circulation & I think I depressed them. But maybe I also inspired them? science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
I have put entirely too much thought into how I can justify wearing a #Halloween costume while teaching my Remote Sensing & Meteorology classes. I’m hoping I don’t suddenly become “internet famous” in a little less than 2 weeks! #eccentricprofessor
We thought our one seismometer kept getting “visited” by a bear, but I’m starting to think that maybe it was a wolverine that chewed up our box & lost one of our sensors (rolled off a cliff?)… @timbartholomaus.bsky.social #fieldwork #science
If you’ve ever heard of a “glacier surge”, you were probably told that it’s something like flipping a switch: a glacier goes from moving slowly to suddenly moving 10-100x faster. PhD candidate Jukes Liu’s latest paper shows it’s not that simple! bit.ly/48wciHrM
Figure 3. Glacier surface speed from 2013 to 2022 at points along the centerlines, labeled by km-distance from the terminus and grouped by spatial zones (Fig. 1). Surface speeds are plotted as rectangular patches with widths corresponding to the time period covered by the velocity maps and heights corresponding to the stable surface errors. Vertical grid lines mark 1 January of each year. The gray box bounds the 2020–2021 surge and the shaded portion corresponds to the period of surge front propagation to the terminus. Arrows in panels b and c emphasize multiyear patterns in speedup. Inset in panel b is an idealized diagram of the down-glacier propagation of seasonal speedups in the reservoir zone. Panel d shows the terminus area (blue, secondary y-axis) along with receiving zone speeds.
🚨🚨 New work I suspect will be influential for yrs to come!
Surge-type glacier Sít’ Kusá is far from quiet during "quiescence." @glacierdoc.bsky.social student Jukes Liu shows, using dense 🛰️ time series, that annual speedups w/ impt responses to weather, build towards surge doi.org/10.1017/jog....
