Click on each field season for a detailed description of each project listed.
Completed Fieldwork
2024 Arctic
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CAREER: Characterizing Climate Change Feedbacks in Arctic Ponds while Incorporating Next-Generation Technologies and Arctic Field Experiences in Education
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Collaborative Research: AON Network for Observing Transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet Firn Layer
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NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Biology under Low Flow Hydrologic Conditions Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed through Naturally Emerging Subglacial Water
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Atmospheric H2 in the Northern Hemisphere over the past Millennium
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NNA Research: Collaborative Research: Towards resilient water infrastructure in Alaska Native communities through knowledge co-production
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Collaborative Research: GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constrains from sub-ice bedrock
2023-2024 Antarctic
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RAPID: US-Korean collaboration to build a Ross-Amundsen Ice Core Array (RAICA) along the West Antarctic coastline
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Sea-ice Snow Microbial Communities' Impact on Antarctic Bromocarbon Budgets and Processes
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Center for OLDest Ice Exploration (COLDEX)
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NSF-NERC: Ground Geophysics Survey of Thwaites Glacier
2023 Arctic
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Collaborative Research: P2C2-- Ice Core and Firn Aquifer Studies at Combatant Col, British Columbia, Canada
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Collaborative Research: Investigating the Rate of Potential Biological in Situ Gas Production of CO and CH4 in Arctic Ice
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Collaborative Research: AON Network for Observing Transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet Firn Layer
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Collaborative Research: GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constraints from sub-ice bedrock
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GreenDrill Geophysical Site Selection Activities
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CAREER: Characterizing Climate Change Feedbacks in Arctic Ponds while Incorporating Next-Generation Technologies and Arctic Field Experiences in Education
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Significance of Ice-loss to Landscapes in the Arctic: SILA (Inuit concept of the physical world and weather)
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Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: Recent changes in Arctic biogenic sulfur aerosol from a central Greenland ice core
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NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Biology under Low Flow Hydrologic Conditions Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed through Naturally Emerging Subglacial Water
2022-2023 Antarctic
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Early and Mid Pleistocene Climate Archives from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area
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NSF-NERC: Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier System
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NSF-NERC: Ground Geophysics Survey of Thwaites Glacier
2022 Arctic
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Ice Core and Firn Aquifer Studies at Combatant Col, British Columbia, Canada
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Collaborative Research: AON Network for Observing Transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet Firn Layer
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Climate Drivers and Ancient History in Greenland Ice
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Reconstructing Ancient Human and Ecosystem Responses to Holocene Climate Conditions
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Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Biology under Low Flow Hydrologic Conditions Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed through Naturally Emerging Subglacial Water
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Investigation of High Andean Snow and Ice Chemistry to Improve Paleoclimatic Reconstruction and Enhance Climate Prediction
2021-2022 Antarctic
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Field Validation of ICESat-2 at Western Thwaites
2021 Arctic
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North America: Sediment Transport Mechanisms and Geomorphic Processes Associated with Shore Ice along Cold Climate Coastlines
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North America: Reconstructing Ancient Human and Ecosystem Responses to Holocene Climate Conditions
2020-2021 Antarctic
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No Fieldwork Scheduled
2020 Arctic
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North America: Sediment Transport Mechanisms and Geomorphic Processes Associated with Shore Ice along Cold Climate Coastlines
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North America: The Ecosystem Ecology of Lake Ice Loss in North-Temperate Lakes
2019-2020 Antarctic
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Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier System
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Radio and Optical Measurements of Glacial Ice Properties Using the SPICEcore Borehole
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RAID Antarctic Field Trial (AFT) 3
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The Ecosystem Ecology of Lake Ice Loss in North-Temperate Lakes
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Early and Mid Pleistocene Climate Archives from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area
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Thwaites-Amundsen Regional Survey and Network (TARSAN)
2019 Arctic
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Alaska: Exploration of the Denali Basal Ice Core Archive
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Alaska: Electrothermal Drill Testing with the Juneau Icefield Research Program
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Greenland: Refreezing in the Firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet
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Greenland: Quantifying Heat/Mass Structure and Fluxes through the Full Thickness of Greenland's Percolation Zone
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Greenland: Partnerships for Polar Science Education and Outreach in Greenland (JSEP)
2018-2019 Antarctic
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Radio and Optical Measurements of Glacial Ice Properties Using the SPICEcore Borehole
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Extent of Firn Aquifers on the Antarctic Peninsula
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RAID Maintenance Efforts during 2018-2019 Antarctic Field Season
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Reconstructing Carbon-14 of Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide from Law Dome, Antarctica, to Constrain Long-Term Hydroxyl Radical Variability
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LTER: Ecosystem Response to Amplified Landscape Connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
2018 Arctic
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Alaska: Measuring snow compaction on ice sheets to better quantify ice-sheet changes
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Montana: Ice Patch Archives - Reconstructing ancient human and ecosystem responses to Holocene climate conditions in the northern Rocky Mountains
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Svalbard: Genetic, Phylogenetic and Functional Microbial Diversity in permanently frozen aquatic sediments over geological time
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Greenland: Quantifying Heat/Mass Structure and Fluxes through the Full Thickness of Greenland's Percolation Zone
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Greenland: Refreezing in the Firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet
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Canada/St. Elias Mountains: Geophysical reconnaissance to expand ice core hydroclimate reconstructions in the Northeast Pacific
2017-2018 Antarctic
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Buried Glacier Ice Masses, Ong Valley, Transantarctic Mountains
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Minna Bluff Firn Core and Firn Air Sampling
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Radio and Optical Measurements of Glacial Ice Properties Using the SPICEcore Borehole
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RAID Minna Bluff Antarctic Field Trial
2017 Arctic
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Alaska: Influence of natural ice microstructure on rheology in general shear
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Greenland: Camp Century Monitoring Programme
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North America: Microbes Promote Ice Formation in Inland Waters
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Greenland: a Greenland Traverse for Accumulation and Climate Studies (GreenTrACS)
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Greenland: Dynamic Observations of the Microstructural Evolution of Firn Under Load
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Greenland: Refreezing in the Firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet
2016-2017 Antarctic
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RAID Minna Bluff Antarctic Field Trial
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Exposed Rock Beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
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Ohio Range Bedrock Samples
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Characterization of Upstream Ice and Firn Dynamics affecting the South Pole Ice Core
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Velvet Ice – Evolution of Fabric and Texture in Ice at WAIS Divide, West Antarctica
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Laser Dust Logging of South Pole Ice Core Borehole
2016 Arctic
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Wyoming: Biodiversity of the Longue Durée
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Greenland: a Greenland Traverse for Accumulation and Climate Studies (GreenTrACS)
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North America: Microbes Promote Ice Formation in Inland Waters
2015-2016 Antarctic
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RAID/ASIG Packer Test
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Hunting for 1 Million Year Old Ice in the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area
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Crary Ice Rise Grounding Line Dynamics
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Climatic and Glaciological Controls on Formation of High-Altitude Ablation Moraines
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A 1500m Ice Core from South Pole
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Inert Gas and Methane Based Climate Records throughout the South Pole Deep Ice Core
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Using 14C in Ice to Understand the Past Methane Budget and Cosmogenic Production Rates
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Climate Controls on Aerosol Fluxes to Taylor Dome and Taylor Glacier
2015 Arctic
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Greenland: Characterization of the Volume, Flow, and Discharge of the Greenland Firn Aquifer
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Greenland: Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere
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Greenland: Investigating the Influence of Sea-surface Variability on Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Outlet Glacier Behavior using Records from Disko Bugt
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North America: Microbes Promote Ice Formation in Inland Waters
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Greenland: Investigating Carbon-14 in Polar Firn and Ice
2014-2015 Antarctic
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Seismic Logging of the WAIS Divide Borehole, West Antarctica
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Using 14C in Ice to Understand the Past Methane Budget and Cosmogenic Production Rates
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Temperature Logging of the WAIS Divide Borehole, West Antarctica
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A 1500m Ice Core from South Pole
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Roosevelt Island Borehole Logging
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Velvet Ice – Evolution of Fabric and Texture in Ice at WAIS Divide, West Antarctica
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Optical Fabric and Fiber Logging of Glacial Ice
2014 Arctic
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Greenland: Closing the Isotope Hydrology at Summit
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North America: Microbes Promote Ice Formation in Inland Waters
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Greenland: Investigating the Influence of Sea-surface Variability on Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Outlet Glacier Behavior using Records from Disko Bugt
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Greenland: Investigating Carbon-14 in Polar Firn and Ice
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Greenland: Response of the NW Greenland Cryosphere to Holocene Climate Change
2013-2014 Antarctic
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Roosevelt Island Borehole Logging
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Using 14C in Ice to Understand the Past Methane Budget and Cosmogenic Production Rates
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Climate Controls on Aerosol Fluxes to Taylor Dome and Taylor Glacier
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Optical Fabric and Fiber Logging of Glacial Ice
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Beardmore Glacier Dynamics
2013 Arctic
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Montana: Exploring Internal Structures of Ice Patches in Glacier National Park
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Wyoming: Prairie Dog Drilling Near the Twin Lakes Ice Patches of Northern Wyoming
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Greenland: Closing the Isotope Hydrology at Summit
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Greenland: Investigation of the Greenland Perennial Firn Aquifer
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Alaska: McCall Glacier Ice Cores
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Greenland: Greenland Aerosols and Methane Records
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Greenland: Investigating Carbon-14 in Polar Firn and Ice
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Alaska: Reconstructing Central Alaskan Precipitation Variability and Atmospheric Circulation
2012-2013 Antarctic
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WAIS Divide Replicate Ice Coring
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Shallow Ice Cores on Taylor Glacier
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Beardmore Glacier Dynamics
2012 Arctic
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Alaska: McCall Glacier Ice Cores
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Montana: Exploring Internal Structures of Ice Patches in Glacier National Park
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Greenland: Closing the Isotope Hydrology at Summit
2011-2012 Antarctic
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Taylor Glacier Ice Coring
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core
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Badger-Eclipse Drill/Hand Auger Field Test
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Geophysical Study of Ice Stream Stick-slip Dynamics
2011 Arctic
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Greenland: Closing the Isotope Hydrology at Summit
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Greenland: Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network
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Greenland: Greenland Ice Sheet Snow Accumulation Variability
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Greenland: Understanding the Physical Properties of Northern Greenland Near-Surface Snow
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Alaska: McCall Glacier Ice Cores
2010-2011 Antarctic
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Instrument Development of the Askaryan Radio Array, A Large-scale Radio Cherenkov Neutrino Detector at the South Pole
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core
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A "Horizontal Ice Core" for Large-Volume Samples of the Past Atmosphere
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Exploring a 2 Million + Year Ice Climate Archive-Allan Hills Blue Ice Area (2MBIA)
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Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers
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Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme Aquatic Environment in Lake Vida, East Antarctica
2010 Arctic
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Greenland: Greenland Ice Sheet Snow Accumulation Variability
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Greenland: Summit Firn Air Cooling Feasibility Study
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Greenland: North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM)
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British Columbia: Ice Core Paleoclimate Records from Combatant Col, Mount Waddington
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Greenland: Understanding the Physical Properties of Northern Greenland Near-Surface Snow
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Greenland: Shallow Coring at Humboldt and Tunu Sites in Greenland
2009-2010 Antarctic
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core
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A "Horizontal Ice Core" for Large-Volume Samples of the Past Atmosphere
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Ancient Buried Ice in Antarctica
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Amundsen Basin Seismic Project
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Exploring a 2 Million + Year Ice Climate Archive-Allan Hills Blue Ice Area (2MBIA)
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Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers