A large group of students, faculty and staff from the Department of Earth Sciences pose outdoors in the snow during the annual Groundhog Day cookout near the Dorsheimer Greenhouse.

The Department of Earth Sciences celebrated its annual Groundhog Day cookout near the Dorsheimer Greenhouse. Great food, good company and a UB tradition that brings the campus community together no matter the forecast! 📸 Photographer: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki

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"It’s giving us a sense of X climate change equals X ice volume change. I think it’s a really important data point from that perspective."

Jason Briner, professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, about his research team’s collection of sediment from below Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome Ice Cap, which revealed that the ice had completely melted 7,000 years ago. He was quoted in an article in The Washington Post.

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