snow coated pine trees on a deeply snow covered hill

Quantitative Study of Snow and Ice

Much of the field instrumentation we deploy and numerical tools we use are constructed/developed in-house.

Models and Software

model mesh

Documentaion and support for UM-developed ice sheet modeling tools

Instrumentation

Instrumentation development begins with testing circuitry design in the lab.

breadboard
Bench testing.

Once tested, instrumentation is built in our lab.

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Soldering under the fume hood.


Instrumentation moves from the confines of the lab to field deployment.

probes
Custom built probe for measuring water pressure, temperature, and dye concentration at the bottom of 800m deep borehole.


Final troubleshooting and data collection happens in the field.


data reading
Downloading temperature data from a suite of sensors in the upper 20m of the Greenland Ice Sheet