Ice Lenses at KAN-U, SW Greenland Credit: Karen Alley,
University of ColoradoCredit: Babis Charalampidis, GEUS
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KAN-U, Spring 2012 Credit: Horst Machguth, DTU
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Summer 2012 Runoff Reaches KAN-U 5 km LandSat-7: July 16 th,
2012 KAN-U Runoff had never been witnessed this high on the ice
before
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Watson River in early May Credit: Karen Alley, Univ.
Colorado
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Watson River in July 2012 Credit: Marco Tedesco, CUNY
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Mapping thick ice lenses with radar KAN-U GPR Transect 5
km
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Ground Radar IceBridge Radar Credit: NASA
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Perched Ice Layers across Greenland Perched ice layers 1.5
meters (~5 feet) thick appear along much of Greenlands interior
coast Potentially rapid mechanism for increasing Greenlands
runoff
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Poster Sessions and Talks C12B-01: Anders Bjrk, et. al, 110
years of local glacier and ice cap changes in Central- and North
East Greenland Mon 10:20 10:35 am, Moscone West 3005 C21B-0316:
Mike MacFerrin, et. al, Massive Perched Ice Layers in the Shallow
Firn of Greenland's Lower Accumulation Area Inhibit Percolation and
Enhance Runoff Tues 8 am 12:20 pm, Moscone West Poster Hall
C21B-0335: Rick Forster, et. al, Recent results on the Greenland
Aquifer from remote sensing and in situ measurements Tues 8 am
12:20 pm, Moscone West Poster Hall C51C-06: Lora Koenig, et. al,
Radar Detections of Buried Supraglacial Lakes Across the Greenland
Ice Sheet Fri 9:15 9:30 am, Moscone West 3007