Ice Research Lab: Current Projects

• Collaborative Research: Direct radiative forcing over central Greenland; Assessment of the coupled effect of light absorbing aerosols and snow albedo variability (Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• The Effects of Soluble Impurities of the Flow and Fabric of Polycrystalline Ice (Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation-Geophysics Program
• Faulting under high confinement: Experimental Investigation and Model Development (Prof. Carl Renshaw, Prof. Erland Schulson)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation-Geophysics Program
• Firn Metamorphism: Microstructure and Physical Properties (Prof. Mary Albert, Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• 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)
• Metamorphism of Dry Snow (Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: Army Research Office
• Strain-Induced Fabric Development in Ice under Hydrostatic Pressure (Prof. Ian Baker)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Structure-Property-Processing Correlations in Ice-templated Materials (Prof. Ulrike Wegst, Prof. I. Baker, Prof. Harold J. Frost)
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation