The Glacier Lab also studies various aspects of the human dimensions of oceans and coasts. Current projects by Lab members focus on topics such as people’s interactions with icebergs in the North Atlantic, ice sheet-fjord-society dynamics in Greenland, and Indigenous sovereignty in coastal management in Alaska and New Zealand.
Research by current Glacier Lab Ph.D. candidate Dara Craig integrates Indigenous studies with marine social sciences, the blue humanities, and costal environmental justice. In particular, she researches marine co-management in New Zealand, focusing on Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Hayley Brazier (Ph.D. 2023) studied the history of seafloor technologies, revealing how marine life reacts to the human built environment in the ocean and industrial intrusions in surprising ways.
Mark Carey has a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for 2024-2025 to support his current research project titled “Unruly Icebergs: Doing Business and Fighting Ice in the North Atlantic Ocean.” This NEH fellowship will allow him to take a full year sabbatical and complete his book manuscript on this topic.
A few examples of Glacier Lab publications on oceans, coasts, and ice include:
Hayley Brazier and Mark Carey, “Boundaries of Place and Time at the Edge of the Polar Oceans,” in The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions, eds., Adrian Howkins and Peder Roberts (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 726-748.
Fiammetta Straneo, Donald Slater, Caroline Bouchard, Mattias R Cape, Mark Carey, Lorenzo Ciannelli, James Holte, Patricia Matrai, Kristin Laidre, Chris Little, Lorenz Meire, Helene Seroussi, and Maria Vernet, “An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Greenland’s Changing Coastal Margins,” Oceanography 35, no. 3-4 (December 2022): https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2022.128.
Zachary Provant, Evan Elderbrock, Andrea Willingham, Mark Carey, Alessandro Antonello, Carlos Moffat, Dave Sutherland, and Sakina Shahid, “Reframing Antarctica’s Ice Loss: Impacts of Cryospheric Change on Local Human Activity,” Polar Record 57, e13 (2021): 1-11.
Alessandro Antonello, “Engaging and Narrating the Antarctic Ice Sheet: The History of an Earthly Body,” Environmental History 22, no. 1 (2017): 77-100.