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Cryosphere program manager NASA HQ. Opinions are mine.

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@UManitoba Very sad news. Huge loss

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@ericsteig @GLopez_924 These oral exams (or interviews for that matter) are often more an examination of confidence and swiftness than of qualification.

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Successful test flight at @NASA_Wallops of the Platform Vanilla UAS with the @CReSIS snow radar . Ready for flights over sea ice out of AK in November. Nice takeoff and landing. @DrBrookeMedley ,@Seal4589

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@icy_pete @EarthMAD I hear you but it’s also simple math. If we increase the individual award less people will get funded. What’s your preference?

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Operation #IceBridge is officially over. It passed its NASA Key Decision Point F review today. Excellent presentation by @JoeMacGregor , @DrBrookeMedley , @linetteboisvert And what an accomplishment by so many people @NASA_ICE So proud of the team.
https://t.co/5XPVYwNrqf

[ESA's CryoSat mission @esa_cryosat]

#CRYO2ICE has a brand new site that allows users to visualise the spatial intersections of @esa's #CryoSat and @NASA_ICE's #ICESat2 for a given time window. Since this is a beta version, feedback is appreciated! Explore and let us know what you think👉https://t.co/MmAZ0LTzRY

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And still CV, Current&Pending etc. Qualification of proposing team will be a second step of review process. We will have a pre-proposal telecon to provide more guidance at one point.

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The 2021 NASA Research Opportunities in Earth Science are out! For Cryo, we're doing something different this year: Double Anonymous Peer Review. The goal is reduce gender and cognitive biases. Proud to be spearheading this for Earth Science. #EqualityInScience

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@AxelSchweiger The problem really is: data have shown that the success rate for proposals with female PIs is lower than those with male PIs. When other disciplines tried double blind proposal reviews the success rates became more even.

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@ericsteig Yep, waste of time.

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Nice article but the facts on ICESat-2 are wrong. It will NOT run out of fuel in 2025! The fuel should last for decades.

[Jonathan Amos @JCDAmos]

The loss of altimeter capability at the highest latitudes later this decade is pretty much a given. The question is over how long the data gap will last. @esa_cryosat @NASA_ICESat2 https://t.co/b3XcRnJgrJ

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@BBCAmos @esa_cryosat @NASA_ICESat2 The facts on ICESat-2 are wrong. ICESat-2 will NOT run out of fuel in 2025!! We have post-launch numbers and it should last for decades.

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Correction: the pre-proposal telecon is November 17. Sorry. Wish I could blame auto-correct.

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US grad students and advisors: The final text of the NASA opportunity for grad student fellowships is out: https://t.co/RTKNeoKl8W
Deadline is Feb.4. There is a pre-proposal telecom on 11/7.
Would love to see many cryo proposals!!

[ESA's CryoSat mission @esa_cryosat]

CryoTEMPO-EOLIS products exploit #CryoSat’s SARIn mode and the novel Swath processing technique to deliver increased spatial and temporal coverage of time-dependent elevation over land ice. Last week, the products went live for #Antarctica. Read more👉 https://t.co/Px7Ebtv52W

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@MinesGlaciology @icy_simkins @Indrani59031964 @icy_pete @DrBrookeMedley This is excellent. Thanks so much.

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Congrats to a great #WAIS2020. Loved the creative, COVID-adjusted, format and especially the sessions on Diversity and Early Career issues. Very nicely done @MinesGlaciology @icy_simkins @Indrani59031964 @icy_pete @DrBrookeMedley, Knut Christianson
Great NSF-NASA collaboration!

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Very nice and informative video of the changing Arctic.

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Arctic sea ice reached its second-lowest minimum extent on record on Sept. 15, 2020. This year’s extent was larger only than 2012’s extent. @NASA and @NSIDC track sea ice through the year.
https://t.co/hKsHRyP5LE

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@rachel_tilling This is very nice!!