Liam Kirkpatrick

🇺🇸🇳🇿 | @UW_ESS PhD student | @dartmouth & @thayerschool ‘22 | Working with Alaskan and Antarctic ice cores to understand past climate.

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

Stoked to be joining ⁦⁦@icy_pete⁩ , ⁦@US_IceDrilling⁩ folks, and the rest of the team on Mt Waddington! Great views of camp and the drill tent as the helicopter came in this morning.

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

@brianmenounos @HakaiInstitute @HakaiGeospatial Awesome work Brian! How did you have a “before” shot of this slide - is this an area you already survey regularly?

[Seth Campbell @Alpinesciences]

I'm looking for a #PhD student focused on #weather, #climate, & #cryosphere at @UMaine! The student will also have opportunities to be involved with some of our efforts at @JuneauIcefield and the @Wrangells! Check out the full advertisement & team here: https://t.co/RNgcjGBnLe

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

An awesome opportunity to get involved with some really cool research!

[John Higgins @blueicehiggins]

No 💨 so up goes the big drill ⛺️! Amazing effort by the field team @COLDEX_STC including @marksjulia2 , @austincarter642 , @AbigailHudak , @JohnMorganManos, and others not on X! Which geologic epoch will we recover this year?!

[Ryan Shead @RyanShead]

This is from the Mendenhall River Floods in Alaska.

This happened over a span of six hours. 😧

Can you imagine watching that happen to your home knowing there’s nothing that can save it?

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

That’s a wrap folks. Combatant Col 2023 ice core is on its way to @IceCicl in a freezer truck. Such a great feeling to be successful finishing an awesome season with an incredible team.

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

@S_Yan_94 Congrats! So excited for you!

[Brian @brianmenounos]

Combatant Col and the ice coring team as seen by the @HakaiInstitute @UNBC Airborne Coastal Observatory -ACO on 26 June, 2023. Mt Waddington for scale...

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

So excited to be a part of this effort!

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

Celebrating Canada Day on Mt. Waddington with maple syrup shots (thanks Jim)!

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

@JohnMorganManos Hoping to see this up here at Mt. Waddington soon! Doing our best to get the borehole ready for you

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

A morning visit from https://t.co/kDQHbZUtxV, trading empty core tubes and fuel for 45 m of ice headed straight to the freezer!

[AGU Science Policy @AGUSciPolicy]

We’re kicking off our Voices for Science workshop today with our colleagues at @AGU_SciComm and scientists from across North America. Learn more about the program at https://t.co/VOmge4biIW

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

@nt_stevens @samuelmarcus99 @lzoet @uwgeoscience Congrats Sam!

[The Dickey Center at Dartmouth @DartmouthDickey]

Stefansson Fellow @LKirkpatrick98 checks in from S. Pole doing research with ice-penetrating radar & ice cores as part of PhD @UW_ESS. More about the Stefansson Fellowship at https://t.co/uSSlW6k3Xq

#arctic #polar #research @DartArctic

📷: kelsey kushneryk

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

There’s some irony that my most dramatic flight delay on the Antarctic field season is on the Christchurch-Seattle leg. Wishing everyone up north well through this crazy weather.

[nzherald @nzherald]

Scores of flights cancelled as stranded travellers finally leave flooded Auckland Airport https://t.co/Ay5ITSaj4D

[Center for Oldest Ice Exploration @COLDEX_STC]

✅The South Pole-based airborne geophysics team has completed science for the season, finishing a broad survey of the southern flank of East Antarctica's Dome A! Ice structure, thickness, & bedrock data will help plan future surveys for finding ancient climate records in the ice.

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

@alpineluvr @elizabeth_case Honestly, yes. So many JIRPers running around down south.

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

@rizkilluminati Can’t tell if you’re joking there, but spending a month doing geophysics at the South Pole only further convinced me the world is indeed round. 🌏

[Liam Kirkpatrick @LKirkpatrick98]

My first Antarctic season has come to a close. My single greatest takeaway was the sheer scale of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. I’d spent plenty of time looking at maps, but kilometres-thick ice stretching beyond the horizon in all directions still blew my mind.