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UND’s Jeff VanLooy and Ph.D. candidate Lance DiAngelis featured in national public television doc on Rocky Mountain glaciers Part of the Rocky Mountains, the Wind River Range straddles the Continental Divide with over 60 glaciers. Researchers like UND professor Jeff VanLooy and Ph.D. candidate Lance DiAngelis visit the area to study the ice formations, a […]

Oceans of color By, Kaylee Cusack In the afternoon on a late November Thursday, it was Associate Professor Soizik Laguette’s duty to introduce a star faculty researcher from the UND Earth System Science & Policy department she chairs. She chose an ideal way to do so, addressing a question floating among the dozens of faculty, […]

Earth Week: Romsdahl revels in policy side of going green By, Jan Orvik Rebecca Romsdahl loves being outside. She’s channeled her love for the outdoors, a passion for making science useful, and the joy of teaching into national expertise. “I love working in the environmental field,” said Romsdahl, associate professor of Earth system science and […]

The buoy is deployed today in Devils Lake. This is the 7th year of continual deployment of the buoy. It was a short season last year as a storm broke the buoy free from its anchor and crushed it on the rocks by the shore. The new buoy now has two anchors, which we hope […]

Mr. Sergey Gulbin, an ESSP MS student, won the Best Student Presentation Award in the North Dakota GIS Users Conference held Sept. 19-20, 2017 in Bismarck. Sergey presented his research investigating the potential effec of wetlands in mitigating the Devils Lake flood.

Dr. Jeff VanLooy was recently interviewed on the topic of melting glaciers in the Wind River Range, Wyoming for an article in Climate Wire magazine.  The article was also reprinted in Scientific American.  Click the following link to read the entire article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-rocky-mountains-largest-glaciers-are-melting-with-little-fanfare/  

ESSP Associate Professor, Dr. Rebecca Romsdahl has jointed the Editorial Board of the journal: Case Studies in the Environmen, http://cse.ucpress.edu/content/editorial-team

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Dr. VanLooy, who joined the ESSP department in 2010, continues to conduct research on the changing conditions of glaciers in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. and how these changes affect streamflow for downstream communities. Recently, he has been involved with the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee in an effort to set up long term monitoring […]

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