AGU - 2009 Nye Lecture
Since the formation of AGU's Cryosphere Focus Group in 2002, Cryosphere has had an increasing presence at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco. One of the highlights of the Cryosphere Focus Group's program has been the Nye Lecture.
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2005 Nye Lecturer
Dr. Matthew Sturm
Snow Crystals, Shrubs, and the Changing Climate of the Arctic
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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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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 seed widely on topics in their infancy. Nye developed a new theory in the early 1950s that ice deformed irrecoverably. Nye applied the 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 today. Nye studied water flow in ice more than 50 years ago, a topic receiving critical attention today as melt water is becoming 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 Rothlisburger channels that form in the overlying ice.
(from Jason Box's introduction to the 2008 Nye Lecture)
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