Completed Fieldwork

2024 Arctic

• NNA Research: Collaborative Research: Towards resilient water infrastructure in Alaska Native communities through knowledge co-production
• Collaborative Research: GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constrains from sub-ice bedrock
• Collaborative Research: AON Network for Observing Transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet Firn Layer
• NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Biology under Low Flow Hydrologic Conditions Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed through Naturally Emerging Subglacial Water
• Atmospheric H2 in the Northern Hemisphere over the past Millennium
• CAREER: Characterizing Climate Change Feedbacks in Arctic Ponds while Incorporating Next-Generation Technologies and Arctic Field Experiences in Education

2023-2024 Antarctic

• RAPID: US-Korean collaboration to build a Ross-Amundsen Ice Core Array (RAICA) along the West Antarctic coastline
• NSF-NERC: Ground Geophysics Survey of Thwaites Glacier
• Center for OLDest Ice Exploration (COLDEX)
• Sea-ice Snow Microbial Communities' Impact on Antarctic Bromocarbon Budgets and Processes

2023 Arctic

• NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Biology under Low Flow Hydrologic Conditions Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed through Naturally Emerging Subglacial Water
• Significance of Ice-loss to Landscapes in the Arctic: SILA (Inuit concept of the physical world and weather)
• CAREER: Characterizing Climate Change Feedbacks in Arctic Ponds while Incorporating Next-Generation Technologies and Arctic Field Experiences in Education
• Collaborative Research: Investigating the Rate of Potential Biological in Situ Gas Production of CO and CH4 in Arctic Ice
• Collaborative Research: P2C2-- Ice Core and Firn Aquifer Studies at Combatant Col, British Columbia, Canada
• Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: Recent changes in Arctic biogenic sulfur aerosol from a central Greenland ice core
• GreenDrill Geophysical Site Selection Activities
• Collaborative Research: GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constraints from sub-ice bedrock
• Collaborative Research: AON Network for Observing Transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet Firn Layer

2022-2023 Antarctic

• NSF-NERC: Ground Geophysics Survey of Thwaites Glacier
• NSF-NERC: Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier System
• Early and Mid Pleistocene Climate Archives from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area

2022 Arctic

• Climate Drivers and Ancient History in Greenland Ice
• Reconstructing Ancient Human and Ecosystem Responses to Holocene Climate Conditions
• Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Biology under Low Flow Hydrologic Conditions Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed through Naturally Emerging Subglacial Water
• Investigation of High Andean Snow and Ice Chemistry to Improve Paleoclimatic Reconstruction and Enhance Climate Prediction
• Ice Core and Firn Aquifer Studies at Combatant Col, British Columbia, Canada
• Collaborative Research: AON Network for Observing Transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet Firn Layer

2021-2022 Antarctic

• Field Validation of ICESat-2 at Western Thwaites

2021 Arctic

• North America: Reconstructing Ancient Human and Ecosystem Responses to Holocene Climate Conditions
• North America: Sediment Transport Mechanisms and Geomorphic Processes Associated with Shore Ice along Cold Climate Coastlines

2020-2021 Antarctic

• No Fieldwork Scheduled

2020 Arctic

• North America: The Ecosystem Ecology of Lake Ice Loss in North-Temperate Lakes
• North America: Sediment Transport Mechanisms and Geomorphic Processes Associated with Shore Ice along Cold Climate Coastlines

2019-2020 Antarctic

• RAID Antarctic Field Trial (AFT) 3
• Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier System
• Thwaites-Amundsen Regional Survey and Network (TARSAN)
• Early and Mid Pleistocene Climate Archives from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area
• The Ecosystem Ecology of Lake Ice Loss in North-Temperate Lakes
• Radio and Optical Measurements of Glacial Ice Properties Using the SPICEcore Borehole

2019 Arctic

• Greenland: Quantifying Heat/Mass Structure and Fluxes through the Full Thickness of Greenland's Percolation Zone
• Greenland: Partnerships for Polar Science Education and Outreach in Greenland (JSEP)
• Alaska: Exploration of the Denali Basal Ice Core Archive
• Alaska: Electrothermal Drill Testing with the Juneau Icefield Research Program
• Greenland: Refreezing in the Firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet

2018-2019 Antarctic

• RAID Maintenance Efforts during 2018-2019 Antarctic Field Season
• Reconstructing Carbon-14 of Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide from Law Dome, Antarctica, to Constrain Long-Term Hydroxyl Radical Variability
• Radio and Optical Measurements of Glacial Ice Properties Using the SPICEcore Borehole
• LTER: Ecosystem Response to Amplified Landscape Connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
• Extent of Firn Aquifers on the Antarctic Peninsula

2018 Arctic

• Greenland: Refreezing in the Firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet
• Greenland: Quantifying Heat/Mass Structure and Fluxes through the Full Thickness of Greenland's Percolation Zone
• Svalbard: Genetic, Phylogenetic and Functional Microbial Diversity in permanently frozen aquatic sediments over geological time
• Alaska: Measuring snow compaction on ice sheets to better quantify ice-sheet changes
• Canada/St. Elias Mountains: Geophysical reconnaissance to expand ice core hydroclimate reconstructions in the Northeast Pacific
• Montana: Ice Patch Archives - Reconstructing ancient human and ecosystem responses to Holocene climate conditions in the northern Rocky Mountains

2017-2018 Antarctic

• RAID Minna Bluff Antarctic Field Trial
• Minna Bluff Firn Core and Firn Air Sampling
• Radio and Optical Measurements of Glacial Ice Properties Using the SPICEcore Borehole
• Buried Glacier Ice Masses, Ong Valley, Transantarctic Mountains

2017 Arctic

• Greenland: Camp Century Monitoring Programme
• Alaska: Influence of natural ice microstructure on rheology in general shear
• Greenland: Refreezing in the Firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet
• Greenland: Dynamic Observations of the Microstructural Evolution of Firn Under Load
• Greenland: a Greenland Traverse for Accumulation and Climate Studies (GreenTrACS)
• North America: Microbes Promote Ice Formation in Inland Waters

2016-2017 Antarctic

• Laser Dust Logging of South Pole Ice Core Borehole
• Exposed Rock Beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
• Ohio Range Bedrock Samples
• Characterization of Upstream Ice and Firn Dynamics affecting the South Pole Ice Core
• Velvet Ice – Evolution of Fabric and Texture in Ice at WAIS Divide, West Antarctica
• RAID Minna Bluff Antarctic Field Trial

2016 Arctic

• North America: Microbes Promote Ice Formation in Inland Waters
• Greenland: a Greenland Traverse for Accumulation and Climate Studies (GreenTrACS)
• Wyoming: Biodiversity of the Longue Durée

2015-2016 Antarctic

• Crary Ice Rise Grounding Line Dynamics
• RAID/ASIG Packer Test
• Climate Controls on Aerosol Fluxes to Taylor Dome and Taylor Glacier
• Using 14C in Ice to Understand the Past Methane Budget and Cosmogenic Production Rates
• Inert Gas and Methane Based Climate Records throughout the South Pole Deep Ice Core
• A 1500m Ice Core from South Pole
• Climatic and Glaciological Controls on Formation of High-Altitude Ablation Moraines
• Hunting for 1 Million Year Old Ice in the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area

2015 Arctic

• Greenland: Characterization of the Volume, Flow, and Discharge of the Greenland Firn Aquifer
• North America: Microbes Promote Ice Formation in Inland Waters
• Greenland: Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere
• Greenland: Investigating Carbon-14 in Polar Firn and Ice
• Greenland: Investigating the Influence of Sea-surface Variability on Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Outlet Glacier Behavior using Records from Disko Bugt

2014-2015 Antarctic

• Temperature Logging of the WAIS Divide Borehole, West Antarctica
• Optical Fabric and Fiber Logging of Glacial Ice
• Velvet Ice – Evolution of Fabric and Texture in Ice at WAIS Divide, West Antarctica
• Roosevelt Island Borehole Logging
• A 1500m Ice Core from South Pole
• Using 14C in Ice to Understand the Past Methane Budget and Cosmogenic Production Rates
• Seismic Logging of the WAIS Divide Borehole, West Antarctica

2014 Arctic

• Greenland: Response of the NW Greenland Cryosphere to Holocene Climate Change
• Greenland: Investigating the Influence of Sea-surface Variability on Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Outlet Glacier Behavior using Records from Disko Bugt
• Greenland: Investigating Carbon-14 in Polar Firn and Ice
• Greenland: Closing the Isotope Hydrology at Summit
• North America: Microbes Promote Ice Formation in Inland Waters

2013-2014 Antarctic

• Beardmore Glacier Dynamics
• Roosevelt Island Borehole Logging
• Using 14C in Ice to Understand the Past Methane Budget and Cosmogenic Production Rates
• Climate Controls on Aerosol Fluxes to Taylor Dome and Taylor Glacier
• Optical Fabric and Fiber Logging of Glacial Ice

2013 Arctic

• Alaska: McCall Glacier Ice Cores
• Greenland: Greenland Aerosols and Methane Records
• Alaska: Reconstructing Central Alaskan Precipitation Variability and Atmospheric Circulation
• Montana: Exploring Internal Structures of Ice Patches in Glacier National Park
• Wyoming: Prairie Dog Drilling Near the Twin Lakes Ice Patches of Northern Wyoming
• Greenland: Investigation of the Greenland Perennial Firn Aquifer
• Greenland: Closing the Isotope Hydrology at Summit
• Greenland: Investigating Carbon-14 in Polar Firn and Ice

2012-2013 Antarctic

• Beardmore Glacier Dynamics
• WAIS Divide Replicate Ice Coring
• Shallow Ice Cores on Taylor Glacier

2012 Arctic

• Alaska: McCall Glacier Ice Cores
• Greenland: Closing the Isotope Hydrology at Summit
• Montana: Exploring Internal Structures of Ice Patches in Glacier National Park

2011-2012 Antarctic

• Taylor Glacier Ice Coring
• Geophysical Study of Ice Stream Stick-slip Dynamics
• Badger-Eclipse Drill/Hand Auger Field Test
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core

2011 Arctic

• Alaska: McCall Glacier Ice Cores
• Greenland: Closing the Isotope Hydrology at Summit
• Greenland: Understanding the Physical Properties of Northern Greenland Near-Surface Snow
• Greenland: Greenland Ice Sheet Snow Accumulation Variability
• Greenland: Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network

2010-2011 Antarctic

• A "Horizontal Ice Core" for Large-Volume Samples of the Past Atmosphere
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core
• Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme Aquatic Environment in Lake Vida, East Antarctica
• Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers
• Exploring a 2 Million + Year Ice Climate Archive-Allan Hills Blue Ice Area (2MBIA)
• Instrument Development of the Askaryan Radio Array, A Large-scale Radio Cherenkov Neutrino Detector at the South Pole

2010 Arctic

• Greenland: Summit Firn Air Cooling Feasibility Study
• Greenland: North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM)
• British Columbia: Ice Core Paleoclimate Records from Combatant Col, Mount Waddington
• Greenland: Greenland Ice Sheet Snow Accumulation Variability
• Greenland: Shallow Coring at Humboldt and Tunu Sites in Greenland
• Greenland: Understanding the Physical Properties of Northern Greenland Near-Surface Snow

2009-2010 Antarctic

• A "Horizontal Ice Core" for Large-Volume Samples of the Past Atmosphere
• Amundsen Basin Seismic Project
• Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core
• Exploring a 2 Million + Year Ice Climate Archive-Allan Hills Blue Ice Area (2MBIA)
• Ancient Buried Ice in Antarctica