by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Ice Trailblazers When Ulyana Horodyskyj was six she visited the Swiss Alps and fell in love with the mountains…...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Glacial Lake’s Disappearing Act Caught on Film In mere days this June, a glacial lake in the Himalayas lost the equivalent of 42 Olympic-size swimming pools of water and then slowly refilled. And for the first time, scientists caught this...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Himalayan Glacial Lakes Some scientists conduct their experiments in a laboratory — think clean white walls, artificial lighting, A.C. and a convenient coffee pot not far away. Not so for Ulyana Horodyskyj, a graduate student at the University of Colorado....
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Remote Mountain Peaks are a Boulder Scientist’s Laboratory “We have a portable laboratory,” Horodyskyj says. “Sometimes we carry loads of fifty or sixty pounds up and down the mountain.” Horodyskyj wants to know how black carbon pollution (commonly known as...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Taking a glacier’s pulse Ulyana Horodyskyj rappels down a ridge on the Ngozumpa Glacier in the Himalaya mountain range. Working at about 5,000 m above sea level — Tibet to the north and Nepal to the south — her stunning view of snow-capped peaks is breathtaking....
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Caught on Video: A Himalayan Glacier Deflates Himalayan glaciers are melting and retreating at their edges because of global warming. But they also conceal a more ominous effect of climate change: they are deflating. They are losing internal ice mass to melting, which...
