THOMAS NEUMANN
Research Assistant Professor
Geology
Arts & Sciences
| Phone: | (802)656-0687 |
| Email Address: | thomas.neumann@uvm.edu |
| Public Relations: | Josh Brown (802)656-3039 joshua.e.brown@uvm.edu |
| Specialty: | snow, ice, glaciers, Antarctica, Greenland, climate change, paleoclimate, low-temperature physics, global warming |
| Biography: | Tom Neumann is a glaciologist interested in all aspects of
frozen water in the climate system. His research deals primarily
with the formation and preservation of paleoclimate records in polar
snow and in the flow of glaciers and ice sheets. His research has
lead to 8 field seasons in Greenland and Antarctica. In particular,
Neumann has collected ice cores and snow samples for chemical
analysis, measured ice thickness with ice-penetrating radar surveys,
measured the surface velocity of glaciers and ice sheets using GPS,
and installed and maintained automatic weather stations. He uses
these data in numerical models to select the best sites for deep ice
coring, to better understand how chemical records are formed in polar
snow (and how well such records reflect atmospheric conditions), and
predict how glaciers and ice sheets change due to changes in climate.
Neumann is also interested in the human history of the polar regions,
particularly as it relates to scientific exploration. |
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