Current Season Plans

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Science Plans

Behar - This NASA project studies moulins and associated meltwater lakes. (60KB)

Bevis - The GNET project has constructed a network (GNET) of over 38 continuous GPS stations ringing the perimeter of Greenland as part of the U.S. contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY) and the international POLENET consortium. (36KB) Box -  This project’s researchers track glacier motion in Greenland via a network of automatic cameras strategically placed around the ice sheet. (48KB)

Bradley - Collaborative study that will use lacustrine sediments to produce fourteen new high-resolution climate records of the past 8000 years. (66KB)

Briner - This collaborative project will use lacustrine sediments to produce fourteen new high-resolution climate records of the past 8000 years. (63KB)

Burkhart - This project involves the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to collect information that improves understanding of arctic albedo variability as well as pollutant-induced changes of albedo. (65KB)

Butler - For this NOAA program, on-site Summit science technicians complete a suite of year-round measurements on behalf of NOAA researchers. (65KB)

Catania - The PIs on this collaborative project will carry out a 2-year field program to collect information on short-term ice sheet velocity changes.  (146KB)

Das - The researchers will continue investigating meltwater lakes that form on Greenland’s ice sheet during the summer. (84KB)

de Zafra - This grant supports a program of trace gas measurements in the middle atmosphere (stratosphere and mesosphere) over Thule Air Base, Greenland, from 2009 to 2011 using a ground-based millimeter-wave spectrometer (GBMS). (34KB)

Doering - This grant funds the program Arctic community K-12 education program “WCCY” via three years of “adventure learning” expeditions aboard dog sled traverses through arctic Canada, Greenland and Fennoscandia during 2009, 2010, and 2011. (89KB)

Forster - Researchers on this collaborative project will measure snow accumulation from four new and four update firn cores along two strategically located transects continuously connected by accumulation measurements from ground penetrating radar (GPR) in southeast Greenland. (376KB)

Gogineni - The goal of this multidisciplinary, multi-institutional effort is to characterize the base of Greenland’s ice sheet and the englacial environment in two areas: the region where the supraglacial lakes form and drain to the bed through moulins and the region where Jakobshavn Glacier tributaries come together to form the main ice stream channel. (59KB)

Green (Czimczik) - For this collaborative effort researchers will conduct an analysis of carbon dynamics in the high arctic. Science teams will work at Thule Air Base seasonally from spring 2010 through Sept 2012. (47KB)

Hanka - This project makes broadband seismological recordings of global earthquakes at Summit, Greenland. Formerly a part of the temporary GLATIS network, project responsibility has been turned over to GFZ Potsdam. Summit instruments have been included in that institute's GEOFON network. (56KB)

Harper - With this collaborative project, researchers will drill to the Greenland ice sheet bed and instrument two boreholes at each of three sites spaced along a 90 km transect that extends from about 1000 m elevation to 1750 m elevation. (74KB)

Hastings - This collaborative grant will study the influence and connection between halogen and nitrogen oxide chemistry at Summit, Greenland. (56KB)

Hawley - The PIs will study the physical properties of near-surface snow in northern Greenland in a sampling transect between Thule Air Base, and Summit Greenland, using a resupply traverse as a logistics platform. (59KB)

Helmig - Combined NASA and NSF season plan.  NASAPolarcat will make continuous year-round measurements of a suite of nitrogen oxides and nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC) at Summit Station, Greenland.  In addition the collaborative NSF project will conduct extensive campaign ozone and nitric oxide measurements from 2008-2011. (68KB)

Holland - The researchers will measure interannual variability of ocean properties in key Greenland ice fjords--Ilulissat on the west coast and Helheim on the east coast. The data will help the researchers to determine the role of warm, deep ocean waters in influencing ice sheet retreat. (78KB)

Howat - For this NASA project, the PI and team will gather accurate ground control points on varying terrain types to register and validate high resolution (sub-meter) digital elevation models from the Worldview 1 satellite. (63KB)

Kelly - The research teams will make summer 2010 and 2011 campaigns to east Greenland for geological mapping and sampling at a number of remote sites in the Ittoqqortoormiit (aka Scoresbysund) region. (52KB)

McConnell - This grant supports the PI’s participation in recovery/analysis of Greenlandic ice cores by the international NEEM drilling project. In addition to work at the NEEM camp, the PI will collect cores to update aerosol records at sites adjacent to two Automated Weather Stations to be visited by Konrad Steffen—Humboldt and Tunu. (58KB)

McConnell - The goal of the project is to continue and expand ongoing long-term measurements of the Arctic atmosphere, snow, and other Earth system components at the Summit Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit). (52KB)

McGovern - The researchers will explore regional-scale questions of differential climate impact, origins and spread of commercial fisheries, and the role of inter-regional trade and exchange. (48KB)

Meijer - For this isotope study funded by the Netherlands Arctic Program (NAP) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW), researchers will conduct shallow ice-core sampling in Greenland. The work will contribute to experimental validation of isotope diffusion models that are used to correct ice core measurements.  (56KB)

Morris - For this portion of the CryoSat Calibration/Validation project, researchers from the UK will take a number of measurements along the International Glaciological Expedition Greenland (EGIG) line that crosses central Greenland. CPS has supported this project biennially since 2004. (52KB)

Nagel - This NSF IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) grant to the University of Kansas funds summer PhD-student level field work in Kansas, Mexico, and Greenland. (45KB)

Nettles - For this collaborative study of outlet glacier dynamics, researchers will collect seismological, geological, and glaciological information during 2008, 2009, and 2010 from two GPS networks they will install in East Greenland, one on Helheim Glacier and one on Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier. (61KB)

Overeem - Researchers on this project will investigate whether it is possible to relate melt on the Greenland ice sheet as measured by the local automated weather stations, remote sensing reconstructions or climate models, to river discharges and subsequently to river plume dimensions in the Greenlandic fjords.(49KB)

Rignot - For this NASA-funded study of glacier acceleration processes, a field team of ~4 will conduct airborne radar surveys over key Greenland glaciers during 2008, 2009 and 2010. (109KB)

Riihela - Researchers with this Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) project will study links between physical, optical and microwave snow properties. (64KB)

Rink - This grant supports Phase II of the Greenland sexual health project. Using community leaders and focus groups of adolescents and their parents, the researchers will continue work to implement a social and cultural community-based research intervention to reduce the rates of sexually transmitted infections (STI). (37KB)

Romanovsky - This project hopes to bridge the gap between permafrost studies and climate modeling in order to provide accurate and precise information about permafrost activity in climate models. (45KB)

Schimel - Researchers on this project will study microbial dynamics in the low Arctic of northern Alaska and the high Arctic of northern Greenland during consecutive seasons beginning in 2007 and ending in 2010. (46KB)

Simpson - The Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network (GLISN) is an international project to develop and integrate 25 seismic stations (17 in Greenland and 8 nearby) into a new, real-time, quality-controlled, open data resource that is easily accessible via the IRIS Data Management Center by the US and international scientific community. (71KB)

Smith - With this three-year NASA-funded project, the PI will conduct hydrographic research in Greenland to assess the prevalence of snow densification across the Greenland Ice Sheet and its importance to estimates of global sea-level rise. (52KB)

Steffen - This season plan addresses CPS support for a suite of projects carried out by the PI, the main two of which traditionally involve servicing a network of Automated Weather Stations (AWS) and glaciological experiments based from Swiss Camp, near the Jakobshavn Glacier.  (72KB)

Tedesco - This project, funded by NSF and NASA, will advance the ability to map, quantify, and assess the surface mass balance (SMB) of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS).  (72KB)

Thybo - The PI leads seismological research at the University of Copenhagen to better understand onshore uplift of the North Atlantic region.  (80KB)

Truffer/Fahnestock -For this combined plan researchers will study the ocean/glacier-ice interface at the terminus of Greenland’s Kangiata Nunata Sermia Glacier (KNS) and NASA investigators will plan a 3-year study of outlet glaciers in Greenland. (88KB)

Virginia - This grant supports a graduate program with a field course designed to offer students hands-on research opportunities. Beginning in 2010, up to 12 students and instructors will travel to Greenland each year for coursework.

Walden -This collaborative plans an intensive cloud experiment at Summit with fieldwork from late spring 2010 through late spring 2014. (75KB)

Warren - With this project, researchers will collect snow to measure black carbon over a wide geographical swath of the Arctic. (78KB)

White/Miteva - This season plan documents support for US scientists working at the University of Denmark-managed NEEM field camp, both those under the core grant (White, PI) as well as Dr. Miteva's tracer analysis. (75KB)

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