Bio
- Greenland ice and Arctic climatologist with more than 20 lead and more than 110 co-authored journal articles
- Professor in Glaciology and Climate at The Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) with over 70 journal articles at GEUS since 2013
- 30 Greenland expeditions since 1994, more than 1 year camping on ice
- installed and maintained a network of more than 20 automatic weather stations on Greenland’s inland ice in expeditions spanning 1994-present.
- Ohio State University teaching 2003-2010 with emphasis on atmosphere-surface interactions, physical climatology at local to global scales, and environmental problems.
- Byrd Polar Research Center Fellow and Researcher, 2002-2012
State of the Climate
- contributing author to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth, fifth and sixth assessment reports.
- lead author on Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) report chapters in 2017 and 2018
- contributor to the Danish Polar Portal web site providing near-realtime climate and Greenland ice sheet mass balance monitoring and end of melt season reports since 2013.
- lead author on Greenland section for The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society’s annual State of the Climate reports 2003-2012.
- 2004-2012 led composition of the Greenland entry to NOAA’s Arctic Report Card, published since 2006 by The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [1].
Popular Writing
Adventure Science
- 2017, 2018 and 2019 ski-based Greenland ice sheet snow surveys
- Expeditions involved traversing 1000s of km by snow mobile.
- Most of the inland ice camps are accessed by helicopter and ski-equipped airplane.
- Instrumenting glaciers flowing out from the inland ice sheet has involved using ships and sail boating. See Youtube Channel
- Organising Greenland inland ice expeditions in 2013 and 2014 part of the Dark Snow project.
Jason E. Box, Professor Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen, mob.: +45 60 12 41 57 