Today the UK Polar Network welcomes Lisa Craw, who has been
working on the 'Cryowurst', the successor of the less elongated 'Cryoegg'.
It's an instrument that senses the movement of glaciers from the inside!
The Cryowurst isn't just a wacky name - it gives fascinating insights and
stories from within the surging glacier. Please join us online on Wednesday
at 2pm GMT on Google Meet by registering at Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1803106432879
The Wurst idea of All Time: developing wireless instrumentation to study
surging glaciers
Lisa Craw
Abstract:
Glacier surges are one of the most difficult glaciological phenomena to
study, not least because they tend to destroy instrumentation put in place
to observe them. At Prifysgol Caerdydd/Cardiff University, we've been
working to develop an instrument (the "cryowurst") that can capture the
hydrology and dynamics of a surging glacier, and live to tell the tale.
This is a work in progress, with plenty of mishaps along the way!
Lisa Craw is a research associate at Prifysgol Caerdydd (Cardiff
University) working on novel instrumentation for investigating glacier and
ice sheet dynamics. Her background is in structural geology, and her PhD
focused on ice microstructure and rheology as well as numerical ice sheet
modelling.
Register your attendance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1803106432879
working on the 'Cryowurst', the successor of the less elongated 'Cryoegg'.
It's an instrument that senses the movement of glaciers from the inside!
The Cryowurst isn't just a wacky name - it gives fascinating insights and
stories from within the surging glacier. Please join us online on Wednesday
at 2pm GMT on Google Meet by registering at Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1803106432879
The Wurst idea of All Time: developing wireless instrumentation to study
surging glaciers
Lisa Craw
Abstract:
Glacier surges are one of the most difficult glaciological phenomena to
study, not least because they tend to destroy instrumentation put in place
to observe them. At Prifysgol Caerdydd/Cardiff University, we've been
working to develop an instrument (the "cryowurst") that can capture the
hydrology and dynamics of a surging glacier, and live to tell the tale.
This is a work in progress, with plenty of mishaps along the way!
Lisa Craw is a research associate at Prifysgol Caerdydd (Cardiff
University) working on novel instrumentation for investigating glacier and
ice sheet dynamics. Her background is in structural geology, and her PhD
focused on ice microstructure and rheology as well as numerical ice sheet
modelling.
Register your attendance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1803106432879
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