Understanding how water in debris layers affects glacier melt is an important step in estimating future water supplies for the people who live downstream of debris-covered glaciers such as those found at the Third Pole.
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Bingjie Ouyang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College and will be graduating in Spring (May, 2019). Her career development is focused on academia and she intends to pursue tenure track positions.
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President Phil Hanlon ’77 and Gail Gentes hosted a reception to welcome this year’s incoming graduate student and postdoc cohort. Faculty, students, and Guarini School staff mingled at the Hanover Inn, sharing their research goals and aspirations.
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In the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for oil and gas extraction directly from black shale, large volumes of wastewater, that includes fracturing fluids and natural brines from the underground rock formation, return to the surface within weeks after fracking. The total volume of wastewater production in Pennsylvania alone has exceeded 40 million barrels per year since 2012, and the number has been increasing. The wastewaters are often highly saline and contain elevated concentrations of radium (Ra) (up to 7000 pCi/L) and barium (Ba) (up to 10000 ppm).
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The rugged, glaciated, coast of Svalbard, Arctic Norway, contains a record of extreme climate changes, the formation and demise of a supercontinent, and the keys to understanding the plate tectonic evolution of the Arctic (Hoffman et al., 2012; Gasser & Andresen, 2013). In 2016 and 2017, I travelled to southwestern Svalbard to sample, map, and document the rock record and uncover the geological history of this small island archipelago. Support from the Alumni Grant Award allowed me to date previously undated rock strata of southwestern Svalbard.
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