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To: Mongo2116 who wrote (829550)	1/12/2015 12:36:14 PM
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The professor is real. Retirees - Dr. Terry Hughes Professor of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Studies Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute Terry Hughes is retiring this year after 35 years of service to the Department of Earth Sciences (formerly Department of Geological Sciences) and the Climate Change Institute (formerly Institute for Quaternary Studies). Dr. Hughes is an internationally renowned glaciologist who pioneered many of the modern ideas currently under study in the field. Not least of these is the current understanding of how massive ice sheets collapse and how important future collapse of portions of the Antarctic ice sheet will be to future sea level rise – a concept now commonly referred to as “the soft weak underbelly” of Antarctica. Terry is well known to his students and his colleagues for his passionate and insightful approaches to the field of glaciology. Many of his most “outlandish” scientific contributions may not even be appreciated for years to come. His passion for glaciology is also clearly imprinted in the careers of his many highly accomplished students who now have careers of their own and who will always remember that Terry’s door was always open. Terry, the University of Maine truly appreciates your dedication to your teaching and scholarship. Thank you for all you’ve done and best wishes in your retirement. Terence Hughes Professor Emeritus, Climate Change Institute & School of Earth and Climate Sciences Contact Information Email/web: Terry.Hughes@maine.edu Address: University of Maine Research interests My educational background is metallurgy as an undergraduate, expanded into materials science as a graduate student. The material that engages my research interest is glacial ice, particularly the large ice sheets that mantle Greenland and Antarctica. This and related work have taken me to the Arctic ten times and the Antarctic thirteen times since 1968, mostly as the principal investigator of NSF-funded glaciological research. Within glaciology, my primary research interest is the dynamics of ice streams, which are fast currents of ice that drain about 90 percent of present-day ice sheets and which may have been the conduits through which deglaciation of Quaternary ice sheets was accomplished, in large part. My major research tool for studying ice streams is aerial and satellite remote sensing of their surface elevation and velocity which, with data on ice thickness and mass balance, provide input to numerical models of ice dynamics developed in cooperation with my colleague, Dr. James Fastook. The overall goal of our glaciological research is to understand the interaction between glaciation and climatic change. In pursuing this goal, glacial geology and paleomarine micropaleontology provide information we use as input to our computer models for simulating the dynamics of past and present ice sheets. In interpreting these data, we work closely with our colleagues, Dr. George Denton and Drs. Thomas and Davida Kellogg. We also maintain close contact with research conducted at Columbia, Princeton, and Brown universities on paleoclimates, and The Ohio State University, the University of Chicago, and NASA-Wallops Flight Center on glaciological research in polar regions. Current modeling research, in collaboration with Fastook and David Bromwich at Ohio State, is simulating abrupt changes in the former Laurentide Ice Sheet that may have been large enough and fast enough to cause abrupt climate change. Newly funded research is modeling abrupt changes in the Jakobshavns drainage system of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Planned Antarctic research consists of studying Byrd Glacier as a rock-floored ice stream, in collaboration with Fastook and NASA, and participating in the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition traverse from Byrd Station (120°W, 80°S) to South Pole Station (90°S), in collaboration with Paul Mayewski and Gordon Hamilton, for the purpose of measuring how much East Antarctic ice is entering West Antarctica.