ESSIC associate research scientist Sinead Farrell was elected secretary to the American Geophysical Union’s Cryosphere Focus Group. She will serve a two-year term beginning January 1 2017. In this year’s AGU elections, 21% of eligible members voted. Two of Farrell’s colleagues who she worked with on the NASA Operation IceBridge mission were also elected to leadership positions. …
ESSIC assistant research scientist Linette Boisvert recently published three papers in October. One journal published by the American Meteorological Society was co-written by ESSIC post-doctoral associate Alek Petty. This paper focused on the extreme 15/16 winter weather’s affect on the Barents-Kara Seas region in the Arctic. A second journal was published by in the Geophysical Research Letters and featured ESSIC assistant research scientist Richard Cullather. This research letter …
The first six months of 2016 brought record-setting declines in Arctic sea ice, leaving polar scientists with the task of investigating the causes of this substantial drop-off. This year’s maximum annual ice extent, measured on March 24, was 431,000 square miles below average and 5,000 square miles below the previous record-low, set in 2015. Globally, the past 14 months have each been the hottest ever recorded. In the Arctic, however, temperatures have been increasing at more than …
ESSIC researcher Alek Petty was a guest author of the Arctic Sea Ice Blog this week. Petty’s post referenced his recent publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans entitled, “Sea ice circulation around the Beaufort Gyre: The changing role of wind forcing and the sea ice state.” Petty, A. A., J. K. Hutchings, J. A. Richter-Menge, and M. A. Tschudi (2016), Sea ice circulation around the Beaufort Gyre: The changing role of wind forcing and the sea ice …
ESSIC’s Alek Petty and Linette Boisvert contributed to a recent National Snow and Ice Data Center web-site post, regarding a record decline in Artic sea ice levels during February 2016. The average ice extent was the lowest on satellite record for the month, with data suggesting that the February ice extent has decreased by 3 percent per decade since 1979. The full article can be found in the link …
ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate Alek Petty was recently appointed by the International Arctic Science Committee’s Cryosphere Working Group as an Early Career Fellow. The three-year appointment will allow Petty to expand on his research in polar science, while engaging in leading-edge scientific activities at a circumarctic and international level. Petty, who studies the changing dynamics of the Arctic sea ice pack, was officially inducted as a fellow at the Arctic Science Summit …
EBO proposal manager Scott Boutaugh was recognized as the Center's staff employee of the year at the annual ESSIC Holiday Party earlier this month. According to the selection committee–comprised of Linda Carter (chair), Carolyn Flowers, and Sinead Farrell–Boutaugh was singled out for his "efficiency, enthusiasm and patience in helping ESSIC scientists to develop and submit proposals, especially for the CICS program; and for being an integral part of the department and …
ESSIC researcher Kelly Brunt was recently featured in a short outreach video segment produced by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Media Studio. In the segment, Brunt, who is part of the Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory at GSFC, explains that while the coverage of ice sheets and sea ice are diminishing horizontally, it’s also becoming thinner vertically. <https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11991>…
ESSIC Research Associate Alek Petty was invited to the 2015 New Generation Polar Researcher (NGPR) Leadership Symposium held May 2–9 on Catalina Island, California. The workshop was limited to scientists who completed their PhD between 1/1/2009 to 10/30/2014 who had polar research experience in any discipline. Petty was one of 37 scientists chosen to participate. Petty received his PhD in 2014 at the University College London (United Kingdom) and has been working with CICS-MD for …
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Sinead Farrell was cited in a NASA Earth Observatory Image of the day post, entitled “Laser-like Focus on Arctic Sea Ice,” which referenced her work with Operation IceBridge. Farrell was also cited in a staff written Livescience post that referenced the same Earth Observatory image of the day. …
