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Kviárjökull glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland.

Kviárjökull glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland.
Kviárjökull glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland.
Kviárjökull glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland.
Kviárjökull glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland.
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Stevens, Laura
Kviárjökull glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland.
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06/16/2016
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This is Kviárjökull, a glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland. Frequent volcanic eruptions in Iceland sprinkle a lot of black debris on glaciers' white surfaces. Sometimes the glaciers' termini, where the rivers of ice flow to meet the sea, are completely black. Graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program stopped here on a field trip that culminated the 2016 Geodynamics Program, an annual semester-long series of seminars by top scientists who share their cutting-edge research on a particular earth science topic. The 2016 program focused on ice-ocean interactions, including glaciology, sea-ice dynamics, marine ecosystems in the polar regions, and novel observational platforms used in ice-choked locales.
Photo by Laura Stevens
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