Hamilton alumnus Dr. Ian Howat '99, an assistant professor of geoscience at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, will present "Speeding ice and shifting paradigms: timescales of ice sheet collapse" on Friday, Feb. 29, at noon in room 1035 in the Science Building.
Named the Young Investigator for 2007 in Cryosphere Science by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Howat is a leader in researching the changing role of ice discharge by outlet glaciers of the mighty Greenland Ice Sheet. These changes were reported in the journal Science. He wrote his Hamilton senior thesis on the stratigraphy of deglaciation in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, under the supervision of Eugene Domack, The Joel Johnson Professor of Environmental Sciences.
Howat earned his Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington. His lecture is in celebration of the International Polar Year and is hosted by the geoscience department, the Dean of Faculty's office and the environmental studies program.
Named the Young Investigator for 2007 in Cryosphere Science by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Howat is a leader in researching the changing role of ice discharge by outlet glaciers of the mighty Greenland Ice Sheet. These changes were reported in the journal Science. He wrote his Hamilton senior thesis on the stratigraphy of deglaciation in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, under the supervision of Eugene Domack, The Joel Johnson Professor of Environmental Sciences.
Howat earned his Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington. His lecture is in celebration of the International Polar Year and is hosted by the geoscience department, the Dean of Faculty's office and the environmental studies program.
