UMaine Graduate Student Trekked Across Greenland, Antarctica
Contact: Coen Hofstede, Climate Change Institute, 207-581-8935, coen.hofstede@maine.edu
Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu
ORONO– It helps to visit a place if you’re going to study it, but some might say that Coen Hofstede went to extremes. The University of Maine Ph.D. student in the Climate Change Institute is conducting research on a fast flowing glacial ice stream that drains part of the Greenland ice sheet. He uses computer models to simulate the complex physics that define how an ice stream grinds over land and scours the sides of its channel.
In late spring, 1997, he visited the ice stream that is known as the Jakobshavn Isbr