Includes resources for the cryosphere community related to: teaching, fieldwork, community-building, glacier names, applications and hiring, funding, professional development, core work resources, making presentations accessible.  

While the AAPI in Geosciences page is still under construction with its own resources, it directs people towards excellent resources hosted on other sites. 

The PGC provides free geospatial support (high-resolution data, mapping, remote sensing solutions) to U.S. polar scientists and logistics personnel funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs and NASA Cryosphere Program. 

Acts as a one stop shop for navigating the grad school application process. The GeoGradApp provides you with some tips and tricks for applying to graduate school in the Geosciences in the United States. 

Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE, urgeoscience.org) coordinated learning and action across in the geoscience community, for groups of people organized in pods beginning in 2020, to bolster knowledge of the effects of racism on the participation and retention of People of Color in the discipline. The URGE website remains a repository of information and lessons to foster learning and change within the geosciences community, helpful to those even beyond the original participants in the program. 

"A collection of non-academic career resources for geoscience students, mentors, and departments. Use this tool to discover career pathways, explore occupations, view career profiles, and learn how to find a geoscience position that fits your skills and interests."

An OSU-based repository providing Antarctic terrestrial samples, dredges, images and data for research and education. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel is about the history of ice and paleontology and includes a 73-minute (1:13 hr.) video detailing changes on the globe throughout time affecting geography and ice. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel is about ice deformation basics and walks through an introduction to the movement of ice and appropriate calculations. It includes a 69-minute (1:09 hr.) long video. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel is about material deformation, elastic/viscous materials, shear thickening and thinning, and includes a Jupyter Notebook demo. This video is 18 minutes long. 

This is the first video in a 2-part lecture by Dr. Alex Robel about ice flow equations and includes a fast-paced introduction to ice flow mathematics. This video is 35 minutes long. 

This is the second video in a 2-part lecture by Dr. Alex Robel about ice flow equations and expands on previous mathematic concepts regarding ice flow mathematics. This is a 75-minute (1:15 hr.) long video. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel is about ice sheet modeling, the spectrum of ice-sheet model complexity, and linear response analysis/theory. It includes a Jupyter Notebook demo and is a 64-minute (1:04 hr.) long video.

This is the first video in a 2-part lecture by Dr. Alex Robel about Ice-Bed interface basics, sliding velocity, and regelation. This lecture is a 76-minute (1:16 hr.) long video. 

This is the second video in a 2-part lecture by Dr. Alex Robel about Ice-Bed interface basics, and expands on the previous video. This lecture is a 68-minute (1:08 hr.) long video. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel explores sea level rise, sea level commitment, mountain glaciers, and more sea level rise basics. This resource is 69 minutes (1:09 hr.) long. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel is about sea level basics and equations. It covers the basics of understanding sea level and measuring sea level. This resource is 45 minutes long. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel is about ice-ocean bouldary layer theory and covers mathematic and conceptual basics of the theory. This lecture is a 72-minute (1:12 hr.) long video.

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel investigates the interactions between the ocean and ice. He covers ice and the ocean, ocean circulation, and the ice pump. This lecture is a 71-minute (1:11 hr.) long video. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel explores grounding line stability, linear stability analysis, and features a Jupyter notebook activity at the end. This lecture is a 68-minute (1:08 hr.) long video. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel is about marine ice sheets, why we care about them, grounding lines, and water flow. This lecture is a 69-minute (1:09 hr.) long video. 

This lecture by Dr. Alex Robel is about ice streams, ice stream velocity, and other ice stream basics. This lecture is a 73-minute (1:13 hr.) long video. 

This lecture is a 16-minute long video. 

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"This is part 1 of the second lecture for week 5 of Rutgers Geography Department course 450:101 Earth Systems. The lecture covers concepts around glaciology including types of glaciers and glacial features, their impact on the geologic record, and how they are impacted by climate change."

This video is 32 minutes long. 

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"This is part 2 of the second lecture for week 5 of Rutgers Geography Department course 450:101 Earth Systems. The lecture covers concepts around glaciology including types of glaciers and glacial features, their impact on the geologic record, and how they are impacted by climate change."

This video is 46-minutes long and courtesty of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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"Louise Farquharson, a research associate at the Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory, talks about how climate change affects Arctic landscapes and the frozen ground underneath them. She covers the rising temperatures in Arctic soil, what factors play the most influential roles in permafrost thaw and what changes we can expect in the coming decades. 

This video is 87-minutes (1:27 hr.) long. 

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This video is 77-minutes (1:17 hr.) long. Explore Permafrost and how ongoing thaw is impacting Alaska's landscapes. 

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"Discover Alaska lecture by Vladimir Romanovsky, UAF Professor emeritus of Geophysics"

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This video is 46 minutes long and is the first video in a 2-part series. 

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This video is 41 minutes long and is the second video of a 2-part series. 

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This video is 35-minutes long and is courtesy of EDU-Arctic. 

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This video is 35-minutes long and courtesy of EDU-Arctic. 

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This video is 48 minutes long. 

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"Earth System Science covers the following topics: the origin and evolution of the Earth, atmosphere, oceans, perspective of biogeochemical cycles, energy use, and human impacts on the Earth system."

This video is 43-minutes long and is available via courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware.

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This lecture is 49 minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 56-minutes long and is courtesy of Permafrost Young Researchers Network. 

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This video is 40 minutes long and is courtesy of EDU-Arctic.

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This lecture is 44 minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 10 minutes long and is the first video of a 2-part series. 

This is an introduction to Glacial Geomorphology - glacial conditions, geomorphic processes, landforms, and landscapes (erosional, depositional, composite). 

This video is 26 minutes long and is the second video in a 2-part series. It covers glacial conditions, geomorphic processes, landforms, and landscapes. 

This video is 19 minutes long and is available via The Geoecologist on YouTube. 

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This video is 30 minutes long and covers glacier dynamics and morphology. This video includes notes on yield stress, models of perfectly plastic ice sheets, ice-sheet morphology, and non-climactic galcier fluctuations. 

This video is 45 minutes long is courtesy of Ulster University. This lecture covers depositional landforms, subglacial bedforms, palaeoglaciology and ice sheet reconstruction, and past glaciation in Ireland. 

This video is 30 minutes long and includes discussion on glacial erosional and depositional landforms including Glacio-Fluvial Deposits and Crevasse. 

This is the first video in a 2-part series. This lecture is 24 minutes long. 

Learn more about glacial landforms, formations of glaciers, typers of glaciers, and more. 

This is the second video in a 2-part series and the video is 12 minutes long. 

Learn more about glacial processes, erosion by glaciers, glacial landforms, and more. 

This video is 90-minutes (1:30 hr.) long. 

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This video is 30 minutes long and covers 25 erosional and 3 depositional geographic glacial landforms. 

This video is the first in a 2-part series and is 36-minutes long. It covers an overview of water in glaciers, basal hydraulic systems, links between glacier hydrology and ice dynamics, meltwater and melwater regimes, and more. 

This is the second video in a 2-part series and is 27 minutes long. 

This video covers waters in glaciers, glacier behavior, water in sediment transfer, and glacial/proglacial environments. 

This video is 101 minutes (1:41 hr.) long. 

This video covers alpine glacier anatomy - zones and moraine - and landforms - depositional and erosional. 

This video is 25 minutes long. This lecture focuses on how glaciers move, glacier types, ice-mass balance, plastic flow, basal sliding, ice, and crevasses. 

This video is 58-minutes long and is available via the Columbia Climate School. 

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This video is 42 minutes long and is available via UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 48-minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 45 minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 40 minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 45 minutes long and courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 40 minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 40 minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 48 minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 45 minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This video is 41 minutes long and is courtesy of UC Irvine Open Courseware. 

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This lecture is a 85-minute (1:25 hr.) long video. 

This lecture by Dr. Bruce Molnia - USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) Senior Advisor, geologist, and researcher - is about trying to understand the dynamics of rapidly changing glaciers through three main components: glacier numerology, glacier photography, and glacier geophysics. 

This lecture is a 60-minute long video. This video covers an introduction to ice sheets, modelling ice sheet flow, thermodynamic drivers of ice sheet decay, and marine ice sheet instability. 

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This lecture is 20-minutes long. This video covers glaciers, continental glaciers, moraine, sediment, drumlin, glacial erratic, glacial outwash, esker, Kettlelink, glacial striations, glacier shaped valleys. 

This lecture is 45 minutes long. 

This video covers geomorphology, glaciers, glacial geomorphology, glacial erosional landforms, and glacial sediments. This video is courtesy of Ulster University. 

This video is 20-minutes long. 

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"The faster than expected speed of ice explained! The role of water in enabling the flow of ice across the landscape is explored along with the basics of sediment deformation and its contribution to the total speed at which ice can flow."

This lecture is 73-minutes (1:13 hr.) long and courtesy of Rutgers University Distinguished Speaker Lecture. 

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"Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, from the School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University, presented this public lecture as a Distinguished Speaker for Rutgers' Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. 

This lecture is a 79-minute (1:19 hr) long video. This video is courtesy of UC Irvine Department of Earth System Science.  

This lecture will introduce glacier topics, specifically in Greenland. Then dives into topic of climate change through historical records and its impacts on the ocean and atmosphere. 

This lecture is a 85 minute (1:25 hr.) long video. This video is courtesy of Oregon State University's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS). 

This video covers ice age sea level - excess ice volume, timing of the Black Sea flood - and dynamic topography - Pliocene sea level, the Pilocene Antarctic ice sheet. 

This lecture is a 76-minute (1:16 hr.) long video. 

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This lecture is a 44-minute long video and courtesy of Stanford University School of Earth Sciences and taught by Professor Richard Alley - Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. 

The topics in this video include sex meters of sea level rise, satellite data of sea level rise, IPCC Estimates, coastal temperature curve for Greenland, physics of glaciers, and much more. 

This lecture is a 78-minute (1:18 hr.) long video and courtesy of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and Dr. Ian Fenty from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 

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This lecture is a 67-minute (1:07 hr.) long video

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"APL-UW Oceanographer Jim Thomson shares his 2019 November CODA Cruise highlights aboard the R/V Sikuliaq. 

This lecture is a 64-minute long video and is courtesy of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. 

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This lecture is 53-minutes long and courtesy of the American Physical Society (APS) and Professor Wettlaufer from Yale University. 

This video will cover topics of history, polar mathematics/physics, modelling change, and more. 

This lecture is 45 minutes long and is courtesy of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). 

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"The David Walton Antarctic Science Lecture: Assistant Prof. Ceridwen Fraser: Southern Ocean Diversity and Connectivity: Surprises and New Directions The Southern Ocean surrounds Antarctica, with strong, eastward circumpolar currents and winds, and has been considered something of a moat, keeping the Antarctic biologically isolated from the rest of the world. 

This lecture is 53 minutes long and courtesy of NASA Climate Change and the JPL Center for Climate Sciences Seminars. 

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"The circulation of the Antarctic margins in a changing climate,” is presented by Dr. Andy Thompson, a physical oceanographer and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at Caltech. 

This lecture is a 30 minute video and courtesy of Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL). 

This lecture covers ice in the world today, ice lost, ice sheets, glaciers, mountain glaciers, climate change, and glacier climate change. 

This lecture is a 78-minute (1:18 hr.) long video and courtesy of the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. 

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"Evidence continues to increase that submesoscale dynamics, motions characterized by O(1) Rossby number, make a leading order contribution to surface heat and other tracer fluxes. Both high resolution numerical models and intensive field experiments have identified a range of hydrodynamic instabilities that give rise to these submesoscale motions and govern their spatial and temporal variability. 

This lecture is 51 minutes long and is courtesy of University of California Television and Dr. Sarah Gille of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 

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This lecture is 38 minutes long and includes topics on the modern climate of Antarctica, albedo, the Coriolis effect, high pressure, surface circulation, and more. 

This lecture is a 56-minute long video and is courtesy of Climate Central on YouTube. 

Topics covered in this panel discussion include global mapping, the southern ocean, the Socom Initiative, global sea surface temperature, mapping the ocean, and more. 

This lecture is 21 minutes long and is courtesy of the Alfred-Wegener Institut. 

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This lecture is a 90-minute (1:30 hr.) long video. It covers David Golibersuch's 1999 trop to the North Pole and the "environmental changes since that visit."

This lecture is a 40-minute long video and courtesy of University College London Lunch Hour Lectures. 

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"Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at more than twice the global average rate. As the sea ice cover retreats, there is a radiation imbalance and a modification of the Arctic Ocean circulation, and as the atmosphere and ocean come into direct contact, exchanges of heat and momentum will potentially be transformed. Dr Michel Tsamados will discuss the implications for the Arctic climate system and beyond."

This lecture is a 81-minute (1:21 hr.) long lecture courtesy of the U.S. Naval War College. 

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This lecture is a 35-minute long video and is courtesy of TRR 181 Energy. 

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This video is a 63-minute long presentation. and was courtesy of OceanWide Expeditions. 

This video covers topics like Fair Isle, Jan Mayden, and Svalbard. 

This lecture is 45 minutes long and courtesy of Earth Stories - Climate Disaster Documentaries.

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"The frozen Arctic Ocean is only accessible by ice breaker, and currently the ice is at its lowest level ever. With more companies looking for efficient sea routes, will the Arctic Ocean provide a new superhighway for goods and services?"

This lecture is a 60 minute video and is courtesy of Brown University. 

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"During a visit to the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology on February 27, 2013, Kirk Dombrowski (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College CUNY) discussed the results of research by an anthropology team in the new indigenous autonomous area of Nunatsiavut, located in Labrador, Canada. 

This lecture is 25 minutes long and is courtesy of Royal Holloway, University of London. 

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"Join Professor Klaus Dodds for this final Royal Holloway Geography for Schools lecture of the 2010-21 academic year. Klaus is a renowned world expert in the governance of the polar regions, and in this lecture he will exploring how and why the Arctic in particular has become so central to the geopolitical ambitions of traditional and emerging powers."

This lecture is a 60-minute long video and courtesy of Darwin College Lecture Series. 

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This lecture is 66 minutes long and is courtesy of Dartmouth College. 

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"Ross Virginia, Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science and Director, Institute of Arctic Studies As polar ice on land and sea retreats from rapid global warming, the specter for international conflict over newly exposed natural resources may increase. This talk will consider how the environments at the ends of the Earth are changing and how international politics, through conflict or cooperation, will shape the future of the poles."

This lecture is 21 minutes long and is courtesy of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. 

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This lecture is 52 minutes long and is courtesy of Woodwell Climate Research Center. 

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"Hurricane season officially begins June 1st, with forecasts warning it may be worse than the historic average. Extreme weather now costs the U.S. more than $10 billion each year. WHRC senior scientist Dr. Jennifer Francis has pioneered the science linking rapid warming in the Arctic to weather here in the U.S. – from snowstorms in the northeast, to flooding and drought in the Midwest, and tropical storms in the Atlantic."

This lecture is a 115-minute (1:55 hr.) long video courtesy of Geneva Graduate Insitute. 

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This lecture is a 64-minute (1:04 hr.) long video that is courtesy of the Royal Society. 

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This lecture is 55 minutes long and is courtesy of Augustana College. 

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"Dr. William Hammer, Fritiof Fryxell Chair in Geology, notes that 1841 marks the dawn of Antarctic exploration. British naval Captain James Ross, commanding HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, discovered what they named the Victoria Barrier, and would later be renamed the Ross Ice Shelf. Hammer is the discoverer of the first dinosaur remains unearthed in Antarctica."

This lecture is 46-minutes long and courtesy of IRIS Earthquake Science. 

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This lecture is a 64-minute (1:04 hr.) long video courtesy of the Imperial College London. 

Topics in this video include: Antarctica, discovery of the Arctic, glacial theory, dogs, shackleton, snow cruisers, Hubert Wilkins, International Polar Year, overland traverse, seismic sand, and much much more. 

This website has many videos, but the one we are focusing on in this list is Ice Shelf Melting by Jonathan Kingslake, courtesy of Columbia University. 

This video is 18 minutes long and covers Antarctic ice flow, equation mathematics, and geophysics. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

Explore this list of data sources, models, tools, and organizations provided by Johannes Landmann. 

"The glacier gallery is an interactive web application with which you can learn (and teach) about the diverse glaciers of the world. It introduces different glacier types with pictures and explanations. It includes example glaciers from nearly all glaciated regions of the world."

"The world glacier explorer is an interactive web application with which you can learn (and teach) about the world’s glaciers, their location, their climate, and the ice they store. By 'glaciers' we mean all glaciers outside of the two continental ice sheets (Greenland and Antarctica)."

"The glacier simulator is an interactive web application with which you can learn (and teach) about glacier flow, how glaciers grow and shrink, what glacier properties influence their size or velocity, and a lot more!"

"The Mass-Balance simulator is an interactive web application with which you can learn (and teach) about glacier climatic mass-balance (MB), including the influence of different climate environments and different MB model parameter settings."

"Find out about the global future evolution of glaciers! This interactive graphic displays the volume change of all glaciers worldwide under four different global warming scenarios between +1.5°C and +4°C until 2100. You can also compare the global evolution to single glacier regions."

"A collection of free glacier graphics that can be used for education and outreach."

"A collection of free glacier graphics that can be used for education and outreach."

"A collection of free glacier graphics that can be used for education and outreach."

"The goal of the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) project is to reconstruct the historical physical (and eventually biogeochemical) history of the ocean back (eventually) to the beginning of the 20th century. As its name implies, SODA uses a simple architecture based on community standard codes with resolution chosen to match available data and the scales of motion that are resolvable. Agreement with direct measurements (to within estimates of the observational error) as well as unbiased statistics are expected.

"This book is a collaborative effort across the international glaciology community to document key glaciological concepts and computational approaches for observing and understanding them. We aim to do this in an open and understandable way."

View Dr. Kingslake's lectures and practicals. 

View Dr. Kingslake's Ice-Sheet Dynamics Theory Lecture notes on GitHub. 

"The resources and tools on this site are designed to help Researchers and BI Professionals develop projects and partnerships that will satisfy the Broader Impact requirement of National Science Foundation (NSF) proposals, and help you fulfill your interest in communicating your science."

"The Palmer LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) team brings Antarctica to classrooms across the country through live video teleconferences (VTCs), data-rich programs, ask-a-scientist  events, and more.  Explore our resources and opportunities to find the perfect fit for your students!"

This resource by Gerard Roe is a .m file, or script file and is a simple text file where you can place MATLAB commands. Download the code to learn more. 

Code developed by Gerard Roe is publicly available. Matlab file is available for public download.

"In this notebook, we will study mass balance in more detail. We will learn how to describe the climate that the glacier experiences in the model, and we will see how the climate determines how much water is stored as glacier ice."

"We will learn how to describe the climate that the glacier experiences in the model, and we will see how the climate determines how much water is stored as glacier ice."

"The motion of glaciers is determined by two main processes: One is internal deformation of ice due to gravity and the other is basal sliding. These processes can be described by parameters. In this notebook we will examine their influence on glacier shape, and we will attempt to simulate a surge cycle."

"Our previous notebooks showed how to use OGGM to explore theoretical questions about glaciers: the effect of a different bed slope, the equilibrium line altitude, the mass balance gradient, etc. Now how do we use OGGM to explore real-world glaciers? This notebook gives us some tools."

"As we have discussed, glaciers change their shape in response to long-term trends in climate. If there was no long-term trend in the climate, that is if the environmental conditions were more or less stable, a glacier could eventually reach an equilibrium with its local climate. In this notebook, we will investigate equilibrium states for different climates. We will also see what happens when our glacier experiences an abrupt change in climate and when it experiences a long-term climate trend."

"Why do some glaciers respond more strongly than others to the same change in climate?

"We have seen how changes in slope or temperature can affect a glacier. In many places, there is not just one glacier, but many. Suppose we have a river that gets water from 3 different glaciers. How can we use our model to find out the changes in all of those glaciers?"

"Glacier ice flows, but very slowly and not in the way water flows. Early glaciologists measured ice flow by setting markers on the surface of the ice and measuring their motion over set periods of time...In this lab, we will investigate the flow of 'glacier goo', a material that deforms in a similar way, using methods inspired by classic glaciology. 

"This lab will apply a version of the CREATE method to help you analyze a published work of (mostly) theoretical glaciology. The goals are to (1) practice recognizing and following along with the mathematical concepts we have been reviewing, (2) engage more deeply with the primary literature of our discipline; and (3) communicate science with each other."

"Lots of glaciological research now is supported by computational tools, which we'll explore this week. To make best use of those computational tools, we need to develop physical intution for the systems of interest. The goal of this lab is to practice problem-solving with the tools available to us."

"These problems introduce the kinds of questions we can solve with pen and paper glaciology."

"Where are there glaciers on Earth today, and why? What determines how large they can grow - and therefore how much they can contribute to sea level rise? And how do glaciologists keep track of all of this? 

"The goal of this lab is to produce and interpret projections of glacial runoff contribution to local water resources. You will select a locatoin that interests you, then put together code to explore a research question."

"The goal of this problem set is to get everyone on the same page with basic mathematical description of a glacier. These problems will draw on van der Veen Chapter 1, some mathematical background from other courses, and concepts we discuss in lecture."

"The goal of this problem set is to practice applying conservation laws and force budget techniques to find useful information about a glacier. Make sure to describe and motivate any necessary physical assumptions in your solution writeup."

"The goal of this assignment is to practice interpreting information from the scientific literature, with applications to a societally relevant challenge."

Check out this list of resources on glaciology practicals by Jonathan Kingslake. 

"Join Andrew Corso, a PhD candidate at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science as he ventures to the waters off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.  On his research cruises, he ran across a number of “mystery” creatures in the ocean and air.  Can you help him identify these fascinating Antarctic creatures?"

"Meet polar researchers and join them on a scientific adventure! Pack your bags and visit the Polar Regions, both the Arctic and Antarctic, and work with researchers to learn how collecting and using scientific data helps us understand and solve environmental problems. 

Whether you are part of an after-school club at school, hybrid learning program, or even as independent adventurer, join our research team!"

Polar STEAM offers facilitated collaborations with educators, artists, and writers to support broader impacts work related to polar research.  Annual cohorts also include mentorship and guidance on building your broader impacts toolkit.

Lizz Ultee's fourth problem set is available at this link. 

Headed to Antarctica and curious to learn more about governance of the region? Learn more about governance past, present and future down south.

Antarctica belongs to no-one, yet is home to science and scientists from around the world⁠—making it a place like no other. Learn from Dr. Iqra Choudhry and Kimberly Aiken about the history, current landscape and future considerations for governing this unique environment.

Co-production of knowledge in Arctic research brings together multiple ways of knowing and emphasizes equity in research. This discussion panel will provide an introduction to co-production of knowledge with an emphasis on providing tips and resources for early career researchers. Four co-production experts will be asked questions to introduce the concept of co-production, discuss ways in which early career researchers can approach co-production in Arctic research, and share lessons about long-term relationship building.

Are you a polar scientist wanting to learn more about where you can find and access polar data to use in your research or teaching? Learn about where you can find and how you can access Antarctic and Arctic data in this Polar Data Accessibility Webinar taking place on Thursday, November 10th from 11am to 12pm MST. The webinar will feature short overviews of data resources from:

Meet other early career scientists headed to Antarctica in the 2022-2023 season and learn about the science they're doing down there!

Join PSECCO for a panel discussion aimed at anyone headed to the Antarctic for the first time. We'll be hearing from an impressive line-up of people speaking from varied experiences in Antarctica, including: 

Join the Polar Science Early Career Community Office and the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Program (OPP) Officers on July 12 from 3pm to 4.30pm ET for an entry-level conversation about what the OPP and its relevance to you as a polar early career scientist!
Find more information and post-meeting updates here.

Speakers: Nick Rutter (Northumbria University) Alex Langlois (University of Sherbrooke) 

In this webinar we will discuss: 1) why we still need to measure snow properties in the field, 2) how to measure snow depth, density and water equivalent, and 3) how to measure snow microstructural properties. We will illustrate a range of traditional and state-of-the-art field snow measurement techniques and engage in small group discussions on the considerations required to capture temporal and spatial variability in seasonal snowpacks.

Speakers: Cassie Lumbrazo (University of Washington) Nicoleta Cristea (University of Washington)

This webinar will introduce the basics of snow energy balance. This will include an introduction to energy exchange processes, how processes vary with different snow covered environments, the relationship between energy and mass balance, and how snow energy balance is measured and modeled.

Speaker: McKenzie Skiles (University of Utah) 

This webinar will introduce the basics of snow remote sensing using the optical (solar) wavelengths, including an overview of different instruments/techniques (multispectral satellites, imaging spectroscopy, lidar, photogrammetry), and how they are used to map variables such as snow reflectance, snow covered area, and snow depth. The webinar will include a 'hands on' introduction to snow radiative transfer and controls on snow reflectance.

Speakers: Eli Deeb (ERDC-CRREL) Chris Derksen (Environment and Climate Change Canada)

This webinar will introduce the basics of snow remote sensing using microwave wavelengths (millimenter to centimeter), explore how different frequencies interact with the snow cover through volume scattering and phase delay approaches, provide an overview of passive versus active (radar) instruments, and highlight existing and future mission concepts that leverage these techniques.

A conversation between Jodi Johnston, York Region District Schoolboard, Kerry-Anne Charles, Cambium Indigenous Professional Services and Dr. Ryan Plummer, Brock University.

Building Relationships with Indigenous Nations for Indigenous-led Land and Water Stewardship Archive recording from 14 February 2024. 

Increasingly, Inuit are faced with climate change, resource development, research, wildlife management, and a host of other issues and related discussions. Inuit hold solutions for how to address these challenges and proven sustainable holistic approaches to having a balanced relationship within the Arctic. At the international level, these topics as well as threats to biodiversity, shipping, and other adverse impacts to food security are constantly present. Yet Inuit communities and Knowledge have not been considered equitably.

In this video, Ailsa will introduce you to the science of ice cores and present you the various topics explained in the series DEEPICE Stories - Insights into Ice & Climate. In 2024, Ailsa Chung is a 3rd year PhD student at CNRS - IGE (Institut de Géosciences de l’Environnement), in Grenoble, France. DEEPICE Stories - Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Lison explains how the concentration in greenhouse gases of the past atmosphere can be reconstructed thanks to the air bubbles that can be found in the ice from regions such as Antarctica. In 2024, Lison Soussaintjean is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Bern, in Switzerland. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Inès explains why the reconstruction of past temperatures by the analysis of ice cores is challenging, as well as the processes that affect the record of the temperature. In 2024, Inès Ollivier is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Bergen, Norway. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Lisa explains what basal ice is, and why this very deep ice is very special and interesting to study. In 2024, Lisa Ardoin is a 3rd year PhD student at ULB, in Brussels, Belgium. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Miguel presents how ice cores are drilled in polar regions such as Greenland and Antarctica. In 2024, Miguel Angel Sanchez Moreno is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Eirini explains how it is possible to reconstruct past temperatures, by studying water isotopes measured on ice cores taken from polar regions. In 2024, Eirini Malegiannaki is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. DEEPICE Stories - Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Fyntan introduces the differences between the past natural variations of the climates and the current climate change caused by human activities. In 2024, Fyntan Shaw is a 3rd year PhD student at AWI in Potsdam, Germany. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Florian explains the crystalline structure of ice and what glaciologists can learn from ice crystals. In 2024, Florian Painer is a 3rd year PhD student at AWI, in Bremerhaven, Germany. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Hanne explains the variations of greenhouses gases in the atmosphere and the links with climate. In 2024, Hanne Notø is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Daniel presents the glacial-interglacial cycles that have characterised the climate over the last two million years, during the Pleistocene period, and explains what the mid-Pleistocene transition is. In 2024, Daniel Gunning is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Bergen, in Norway. DEEPICE Stories - Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Niklas explains what ice sheets are, where they can be found and how they are connected to the Earth's climate. In 2024, Niklas Kappelt is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Lund, in Sweden. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Geunwoo explains why scientists are interested in impurities in ice cores and what they can tell us about past climates. In 2024, Geunwoo Lee is a 3rd year PhD student the University of Bern, Switzerland DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Piers explains what causes the thinning of the ice in areas covered by gigantic ice sheets such Antarctica, and how scientists can study very thin layers of ice. In 2024, Piers Larkman is a 3rd year PhD student at the Ca'Foscari University, in Venice, Italy. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Romilly presents the transformation from snowflakes to ice and explains how bubbles of air become trapped in the ice. In 2024, Romilly Harris Stuart is a 3rd year PhD student at CNRS, at LSCE (Gif-sur-Yvette, France). DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.

In this video, Qinggang explains why and how the data recorded in ice cores can be used for climate modelling. In 2024, Qinggang Gao is a 3rd year PhD student at the British Antarctic Survey, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. DEEPICE Stories – Insights into Ice & Climate is a series of 15 videos created in collaboration with the 15 PhD students of the European research project DEEPICE. These 3-minute educational video clips give an overview of scientific research on ice cores.