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The Cryosperic Processes and Remote Sensing Laboratory Seminars Series: Modeling subglacial hydraulic processes and their effect on ice dynamics

November 25th, 2009 - 12:00 Room J107, Marshak Building Gwenn Flowers Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Glaciology Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Canada Glaciers and ice sheets are expected to make significant contributions to 21st century sea level. Our understanding of their flow regimes and some recent observational surprises make it clear that glacier and ice sheet dynamics complicate projections of the future of these ice masses. Decades of research on alpine glaciers, and more recent research in Greenland and Antarctica, has shown that subglacial hydrology is an important determinant of ice dynamics in many places. In this talk I will illustrate how the complex system of glacier drainage can be conceptualized and articulated in simple numerical models. Using examples from alpine glaciers and ice caps, I will highlight the successes and shortcomings of these models and show how ice dynamical models can incorporate hydrology. With an eye toward extending this work to larger (ice-sheet) scales, preliminary results will be presented from an effort to couple hydrology and dynamics in two-dimensional tidewater glacier model. For information please contact: mtedesco@sci.ccny.cuny.edu

  • Nov 25, 2009 12:00 PM to Nov 25, 2009 01:00 PM.

Chemistry Seminar - The Origin of Homochirality on Prebiotic Earth

Ronald Breslow (Columbia University)

  • Chemistry
  • Nov 30, 2009 12:00 PM to Nov 30, 2009 01:00 PM.

Biochem Seminar: Fred Maxfield, "How cholesterol moves through cells"

Fred Maxfield, Chair, Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical School

  • Biochemistry
  • Dec 02, 2009 12:00 PM to Dec 02, 2009 01:00 PM.

Physics Colloquium: Robert Willett

Physics Colloquium: Robert Willett, Alcatel-Lucent

  • Physics Colloquium
  • Dec 02, 2009 04:00 PM to Dec 02, 2009 05:00 PM.

SBE Faculty Research Series: Paul Gottlieb

Paul Gottlieb, Ph.D., Associate Medical Professor, Department of Immunology & Microbiology, SBE, CCNY. TBA

  • Dec 03, 2009 12:00 PM to Dec 03, 2009 02:00 PM.

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Panel Participants: Stephen Friedfeld, PhD-- Associate Dean, Graduate Affairs, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Princeton University Edna Augusta-- Director of Admissions, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University Ellen Telesca— School of Graduate Studies, SUNY-Downstate Medical Center

  • Dec 03, 2009 12:30 PM to Dec 03, 2009 02:00 PM.

New York Group Theory Seminar

Gerhard Rosenberger Day Vitali Romankov, Omsk State University Title: To be announced

  • Mathematics: Group Theory Math
  • Dec 04, 2009 04:15 PM to Dec 04, 2009 05:30 PM.

Biology Colloquium: Else J. Fjerdingstad, Queens College, "Integrating Mating System Evolution and Social Evolution with Population Genetics-Queen Strategy Evolution in Lasius Ants"

"Intergrating Mating System Evolution and Social Evolution with Population Genetics - Queen Strategy Evolution in Lasius ants"

  • Dec 07, 2009 12:15 PM to Dec 07, 2009 01:15 PM.

Biochem Seminar: Zimei Bu

Zimei Bu, Chemistry, CCNY

  • Biochemistry
  • Dec 09, 2009 12:00 PM to Dec 09, 2009 01:00 PM.

Physics Colloquium: Paul Sorensen

Physics Colloquium: Paul Sorensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Physics Colloquium
  • Dec 09, 2009 04:00 PM to Dec 09, 2009 05:00 PM.
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