Cryosphere and Polar Science | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Cryosphere and polar science study the frozen water part of the Earth system, ranging from the glaciers of Greenland to the ice sheets of the Antarctic. Antarctica photo by Jack Pan.

Recent News

Around the Pier: NASA Launches World’s Most Advanced Ice-Measuring Satellite into Orbit

Research Highlight: After the Break

What Lies beneath West Antarctica?

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Academics

BORSA, ADRIAN

Assistant Professor

BROMIRSKI, PETER

Researcher

MINSTER, Jean-Bernard

Professor

HAASE, JENNIFER

Researcher

AARONS, SARAH

Assistant Professor

FRICKER, Helen Amanda

Professor

STRANEO, Fiamma

Professor

WILLENBRING, JANE

Associate Professor

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Centers, Labs, and Projects

Scripps Glaciology Group
Studies ice-sheet processes.

Scripps Polar Center
Investigating everything from ocean physics to ice sheet and glacier dynamics to the ecology of the organisms that live at the poles.

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Recent Publications

Glaciohydraulic seismic tremors on an Alpine glacier (2020) [10.5194/tc-14-287-2020]

Lindner, F.; Walter, F.; Laske, G.; Gimbert, F.

Inside the ice shelf: using augmented reality to visualise 3D lidar and radar data of Antarctica (2019) [10.1111/phor.12298]

Boghosian, A. L.; Pratt, M. J.; Becker, M. K.; Cordero, S. I.; Dhakal, T.; Kingslake, J.; Locke, C. D.; Tinto, K. J.; Bell, R. E.

Land ice height-retrieval algorithm for NASA's ICESat-2 photon-counting laser altimeter (2019) [10.1016/j.rse.2019.111352]

Smith, B.; Fricker, H. A.; Holschuh, N.; Gardner, A. S.; Adusumilli, S.; Brunt, K. M.; Csatho, B.; Harbeck, K.; Huth, A.; Neumann, T.; Nilsson, J.; Siegfried, M. R.

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