Ice Research Lab: Current Projects

• Advanced Microstructural Characterization of Polar Ice Cores (Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: NSF-OPP
• Collaborative Research: The NEEM Deep Ice Core (Prof. Ian Baker, Prof. Mary Albert)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Dry Snow Metamorphism (Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: Army Research Office
• Faulting under high confinement: Experimental Investigation and Model Development (Prof. Carl Renshaw, Prof. Erland Schulson)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation-Geophysics Program
• Frictional Sliding of Cold Ice: Measurements of a Mechanical Process Fundamental to Tectonic Activity on Icy Satellites (Prof. Erland Schulson)
  Sponsor: NASA-OPR (Outer Planets Research Program)
• Frictional Sliding of Sea Ice: A Scale-Independent Mechanical Process Underlying Brittle Compressive Failure on Scales Large and Small (Prof. Erland Schulson)
  Sponsor: DOI-MMS (Minerals Management Service)
• IGERT: Polar Environment Changes (Prof. Ross Virginia, Prof. Mary Albert, X. Feng, D. Ranco, Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• The Microstructural Location and Effect and Impurities in Polar Ice Cores (Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• The Physical Properties of the US ITASE Firn and Ice Cores from South Pole to Taylor Dome (D. Meese, Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation