Our 2024 field expedition to Greenland targets the fundamental drivers of ice sheet change and stability through focusing on a poorly-understood, observation-limited part of the system: the ice-ocean-seabed interface at the grounding line. We have funding to deploy a novel remotely operated vehicle (ROV Nereid from WHOI) designed for surveying and sampling in deep, ice marginal environments coupled with ship-based sampling to obtain high-resolution geological, geophysical, and oceanographic measurements at the ice-sediment-ocean interface.

I am recruiting a Ph.D. student (M.Sc. considered) to start in Fall 2024 to participate in this project. Research focus will be on the glacimarine sedimentary processes occurring at ground lines. The student will have the opportunity to collaborate on this project with a creative team of researchers and educators who are dedicated mentoring future cryosphere scientists!

Research Team

University of Texas Austin-Lead Institution

• Dr. Ginny Catania
• Dr. Sean Gulick
• Dr. John Goff
• Dr. Ben Keisling

University of Florida

• Dr. John Jaeger

Oregon State Univ.

• Dr. Emily Eidam

Rutgers Univ.

• Dr. Becca Jackson

Our department at the University of Florida has a solid research group in Cryospheric sciences (yes, in Florida!). Links below to our stellar group of scientists and their projects!

• Dr. Emma MacKie
• Dr. Rob Hatfiled
• Dr. Ellen Martin
• Dr. Jon Martin