Join us for the Environmental Lecture Series in Orchestra Hall. The topic for June 24 is “Why Greenland Matters” with Dr. Jason Briner.
Briner has studied Greenland for more than 15 years and leads multiple federally funded research projects examining the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet. His work has appeared in leading scientific journals, including a cover story in Nature, and has been featured in popular publications such as Scientific American.
Briner is a professor of earth sciences at the University at Buffalo. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington (1996), a master’s degree from Utah State University (1998), and a PhD from the University of Colorado (2003).
His research on the history of ice sheets, glaciers and sea level rise has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals. Briner’s fieldwork has taken him and his students above the Arctic Circle more than 40 times.
He uses a broad toolkit of geological methods to reconstruct the history of climate and ice in regions such as Alaska, Norway and Greenland.
At the University at Buffalo, Briner teaches introductory courses on climate change, geology courses on geomorphology and upper-level courses on glaciers and paleoclimate. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
