WHO IS Dr. JOHN NYE?
John F. Nye is a cryospheric science pioneer; currently professor emeritus in physics at the University of Bristol, in the UK. Nye planted intellectual seeds widely on topics in their infancy. Nye developed a new theory in the early 1950s that ice deformed irrecoverably. Nye applied this new ice rheology theory with success in predicting glacier behavior, including a new science of glacier surging. What is today commonly referred to as Glen's flow law is more appropriately named the Glen-Nye flow law; and remains in widespread use. Nye studied water flow in ice more than 50 years ago, a topic receiving critical attention today as melt water is now widely recognized as providing a rapid response mechanism of land ice to climate warming. Nye made other pioneering work investigating dynamics at the bed of glaciers. So-called, Nye-channels are those forming in the glacier bed, in contrast to Röthlisburger channels that form in the overlying ice.
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2005 Nye Lecturer
Dr. Matthew Sturm
Snow Crystals, Shrubs, and the Changing Climate of the Arctic
(link to movie of Lecture) |
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2004 Nye Lecturer
Dr. Richard Alley
We're All Glaciologists Now:
Ice in the Climate System
(link to movie of lecture)
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2003 Nye Lecturer
Dr. Kurt Cuffey
Stable Isotopes in Ice: Tracers of the Global Environment
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