ACES Wild Perspectives | Science on Skis: Traversing the Juneau Ice Field

Wild Perspectives, launched in January 2020, provides an opportunity for community-building and story-telling, brought to you by ACES in partnership with The Collective. Science on Skis: Traversing the Juneau Icefield is about Izzo's experience as a student with the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). Since 1946, JIRP has facilitated two months of immersive, hands-on glaciology research across the Icefield. Izzo will share about glaciological field methods, camp life and logistics, and hopefully answer the question: why study glaciers in a warming climate? Izzo Steenrod is a Naturalist at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) and lives at Toklat in the Castle Creek Valley. She studied geology at Colorado College and finds endless inspiration in the outdoors. Her passions for skiing, outdoor education, adventure, and earth science all combined during a summer spent on the Juneau Icefield.