Glacier Lab Members Present on Climate and Glacier Justice
On Friday, March 1st, 2024, Glacier Lab members presented a panel at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon. The panel was titled “Glacier Justice, Climate Change, and Indigenous Communities in the Pacific Northwest,” and the presentations covered research from two Just...
The Glacier Lab in DC: Navigating the New Arctic Community Meeting and Archival Research at the Library of Congress and National Archives
In March 2023, members of the Glacier Lab for the Study of Ice and Society traveled to Washington, D.C. for a National Science Foundation (NSF) conference and research at the Library of Congress and National Archives. First, Glacier Lab director Mark Carey and graduate students Dara Craig, Zachary...
Greenland Fjords Research on the RV Tarajoq
Mark Carey joined the rest of his multidisciplinary Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) research team for ice-ocean-society research in east Greenland during August 2023. Their project, funded by the National Science Foundation’s NNA program, is called “Global changes, local impacts: Study...
Ice & Environmental Justice Summer Undergraduate Research Awards
Call for Applications (deadline May 19, 2023) Summer 2023 Ice and Environmental Justice Undergraduate Research Awards Overview Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Environmental Studies Program/Geography Department) is able to...
Australian environmental historian visits Glacier Lab
Weaving worlds: Wetlands and multispecies politics of plants Associate Professor Emily O’Gorman, Macquarie University, Australia Speaking at the Geography Department Colloquium on March 16th, 2023 at 4pm. Condon 106. Abstract below. Wetlands in Australia have been important sites of political...
Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant: Call for Applications
Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant for Arctic, Greenland, and social-environmental research Hours: 15-25 hours per week during summer (flexible schedule)Hourly Wage: $15.00 per hourLocation: flexibleStart Date: ...
Research in the Avalanche Capital
Fieldwork report by Environmental Studies PhD candidate and Glacier Lab member Zac Provant. When I arrived in Juneau on March 11th, 2022, winter disasters were on people’s minds. In December 2020, Haines, Alaska experienced a deadly landslide that destroyed houses and killed two people. In...
New Course Development Grant for Ice & Environmental Justice
Call for Applications (due May 20, 2022) $4,500 Course Development Grant for a New Course Related to Ice and Environmental Justice in the Pacific Northwest If you’re thinking about developing a new course related to environmental justice—and particularly if it connects to the Pacific Northwest and...
Ice & Environmental Justice Summer Undergraduate Research Awards
Call for Applications (deadline May 11, 2022) Summer 2022 Ice and Environmental Justice Undergraduate Research Awards Overview Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Environmental Studies Program/Geography Department) is able to offer two...
Student and Faculty Winners of Climate Justice Awards
Two UO students and two UO faculty won the 2021 awards for research and teaching related to ice, society, and climate justice in the Pacific Northwest, with funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation through the Just Futures Institute. Students Jessica Gladis and Anna Mattson won the 2021...
New Course Development Grants for Ice & Environmental Justice
Call for Applications Course Development Grants for New Courses Related to Ice and Environmental Justice in the Pacific Northwest If you’re thinking about developing a new course related to environmental justice—and particularly if it connects to the Pacific Northwest and to snow, ice,...
Ice & Environmental Justice Summer Undergraduate Research Awards
Call for Applications Summer 2021 Ice and Environmental Justice Undergraduate Research Awards Overview Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Honors College/Environmental Studies Program) is able to offer two $4,000 Summer Research Awards for...
New Postdoc Position in Ice, Society, & Resilience
Thanks to a new $156,226 grant from the University of Oregon that Dave Sutherland (Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies) and Mark Carey (Environmental Studies, Honors College) have received from the Resilience Initiative Seed Funding Program, Office of the Vice President of Research and...
New Research Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Team Teaching
Thanks to a new Williams Council Instructional Grant, Mark Carey will be teaming up with UO oceanographer Dave Sutherland (Earth Sciences and Environmental Studies) and UO literature scholar Casey Shoop (Clark Honors College) to conduct summer 2019 research together in Greenland and to co-teach a...
Lab Member Presentations
Hayley Brazier, Ph.D. candidate in Environmental History, recently presented lab research on ocean-ice dynamics at the annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) in Riverside, CA. Her poster was titled “Re-Envisioning the Difference Between Land and Sea: The...
Cascadia Environmental History Retreat
Glacier Lab members Hayley Brazier, Holly Moulton, and Mark Carey recently attended the 2017 Cascadia Environmental History Retreat at Friday Harbor, Washington. Also attending from UO were Marsha Weisiger (co-organizer), Ryan Jones, Nichelle Frank, and Olivia Wing. The retreat attracts graduate...
Research and Training on Climate Change and Society in the Andes
This summer, Holly Moulton traveled to Peru for seven weeks to participate in research and training related to glacier melt, hydrologic variability and social aspects of climate change in the Peruvian Andes. Her first stop was the “International Social Science Forum: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on...
Mountaineering, Citizen Science, and Glaciers
Our new article analyzing the history of glaciology and glacier research in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca suggests that citizen science conducted by mountain climbers, guides, and porters could augment the professional research about glaciers conducted by scientists. The article profiles, for example,...
New Article on Glacier Runoff and Mountain Societies
Members of the Glacier Lab, along with several other colleagues, have published a new global analysis of the societal dimensions of glacier runoff. Published as part of a 2017 special issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers (vol. 107, no. 2), the article provides one of the...
Alaska Field Report
By Andrea Willingham One of my favorite things about being a part of the Glacier Lab is getting to contribute to the wildly diverse research conducted among its members. This summer, I put my own research into practice and ventured to southeast Alaska to execute my field work for my...