Field Sites

Svartisen Ice Cap - Norway

To learn more about our research beneath the Svartisen ice cap, read the 2002 New York Times article about our work there.

Tunnel melted through basal ice

Basal ice

Outside the tunnel, next to the ice cap

Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada

Turtle Mountain and Frank Landslide deposit

South peak of Turtle Mountain; instruments are installed just to the right of the summit

Instruments for monitoring fissure opening, prior to protective shield installation

Working in a fissure on Turtle Mountain

Midwest

Drumlin of the Green Bay lobe in central Wisconsin

Cemented glacial outwash near Peoria, Illinois: furrow and prow formed by clast plowing at the ice-bed interface

Storglaciaren, Sweden

Storglaciaren is the glacier on the left (photo by Bob Jacobel)