WELCOMEHi, I'm Scott Braddock - a PhD candidate at the University of Maine in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute. Here you will find information on my research, teaching, and ongoing outreach efforts in Polar STEM. I study current and past changes of glaciers and ice sheets around the world using a variety of geophysical tools and techniques.
POLAR EXPLORATIONS is the convergence of these themes (research, outreach, and teaching) and combines them to create opportunities for collaborations in Polar STEM fields. Please reach out to me for more information about getting students and teachers involved in Polar field work and experiences. In recent years, I have dedicated more energy into science outreach and providing field-based and virtual experiences in Polar environments for high school and undergraduate students. The aim of these programs is to increase participation for underrepresented students in the Polar STEM fields. 2022 marked our pilot year for this program and it will continue expand over the next three years as we host students in Juneau, Alaska.
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News & Updates
January - February, 2023 - Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica - Our team will be traveling down to conduct radar surveys and to drill several ice cores to collect bedrock from beneath ice adjacent to Pine Island Glacier. The aim of this project is to determine if the bedrock that is now covered in ice was exposed during the Holocene. If so, this will demonstrate that Pine Island Glacier was able to re-advance from positions in board of where ice is today!
December, 2022 - American Geophysical Union Annual Conference - I will be attending AGU in Chicago this December to present a poster on our latest publication about Holocene changes to Thwaites Glacier. In addition, I am giving a talk on our teams education outreach efforts during the summer, 22. Stop by and check out my poster (12/14 from 10 am -1:30 pm)and/or talk (12/16 (10 am)!
July, 2022 - Polar Education Conference - A group of educators gathered to develop strategies that will help to engage underrepresented students in Polar STEM fields and to introduce them to career field opportunities. Big takeaways were a proposal to fund in-person and virtual student participation in Arctic and Antarctic research as well as a partnership among 3 universities to bring students to Juneau, Alaska in 2023 for a Polar STEM field experience.
June, 2022 - Our publication is out! Was Thwaites Glacier significantly smaller in the recent past than it is today? Why is that important as models project sea-level rise in the coming decades and centuries? Read more about this project in the 'Research' page and check out the publication below in the link.
June, 2022 - Denali National Park field work - Our team spent the month of June collecting radar data and snow cores on the Kahiltna Glacier and Begguya (Mt. Hunter) Plateau. We collected data using four different radar systems to image internal stratigraphy in high resolution as well as the depth to bedrock. An 18 meter snow core brings the record from a surface-to-bedrock ice core drilled several years ago up to present.
Contact Me
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Email: scott.braddock@maine.edu
Location: Bryand Global Science Center University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 |
