Jake Walter's research focuses on understanding how glacier flow responds to a changing climate. He primarily uses seismometers (the same instruments that measure earthquakes) along with GPS and other scientific instruments to understand the initiation of phenomena mostly originating at a glacier's bed, such as glacier slip, calving, and hydrology. He is a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and, so far, his research has taken him to Costa Rica, West Greenland, and now to Antarctica.
One Month in the Deep Field, Part 5
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND-- For about a month, we worked every single day, taking turns cooking for each other (some meals more agreeable than others – there were some complaints about my dishes being too spicy!), sleeping in individual mountain tents... {Read More »}
