Funded Projects

Our full list of projects that have been funded in the Mines Glaciology Group

Accelerating NASA Cryosphere and ICESat-2 science with collaborative cloud computing

Two awards funded by NASA TOPS and ICESat-2 Project Science Office (10/1/2022 to 9/30/2024)

Teaching old data new tricks: Leveraging legacy field data to investigate ice-stream shut down and inspire a new generation of cryospheric scientists

Funded by NSF CAREER Program (8/1/2022 to 7/31/2027)

Quantifying bias and uncertainty sources between laser and radar retrievals of surface topography over cryospheric targets

Funded by NASA Decadal Survey Incubation Program (6/15/2022 to 6/14/2025)

Seeds of Change: Investigating the Impact of Antarctic Basal Channel and Persistent Polynya Co-Evolution on Ice Shelf Stability

Funded by NASA Cryospheric Science (2/1/2022 to 1/31/2025)

Investigating four decades of Ross Ice Shelf subsurface change with historical and modern radar sounding data

Funded by NASA GNSS Research (8/15/2021 to 8/14/2024)

Leveraging ICESat-2 altimetry for Antarctic subglacial lake identification, evolution, and basal properties

Funded by NASA GNSS Research (5/1/2021 to 4/30/2024)

Constraining West Antarctic snow accumulation and firn densification processes with GNSS reflectometry

Funded by NASA GNSS Research (9/1/2020 to 8/31/2023)

Observationally Constrained Simulations of the Evolution of Polar Snow Using a Multi-Sensor Approach

Funded by NASA Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (9/1/2020 to 8/31/2023)

Pingo SubTerranean Aquifer Reconnaissance and Reconstruction (Pingo STARR)

Funded by NASA Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research (7/1/2020 to 6/30/2024)

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Workshop

Funded by NASA Cryospheric Science and NSF Antarctic Science (9/1/2019 to 8/31/2023)