What's cryoscience.net?
Since May 2008

We are "Cryosphere Research Laboratory" in Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University.

Our Main Interests are

  • Changes in Asian glaciers
  • Himalayan glacial lakes
  • Paleoclimate with ice cores
    (High mountain Asia, Antarctica, Greenland)
  • Hydrology of glaciated regions
  • Process study on stable water isotopes
  • News

    Apr 2026 Kondo & Fujita
    A paper on glacier meltwater floods in NW Greenland has been published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

    Apr 2026 Pellicciotti+ (Fujita and Sakai as coauthors)
    A paper on debris-covered glacier simulations has been published in The Cryosphere.

    Apr 2026
    Uemura-san promoted to Professor. Kondo-san promoted to Assistant Professor. Kawakami-san left the lab. Kito-san resumed M2. Uchikura-san and Arai-san joined the lab.

    Mar 2026 Esashi+ (Fujita as a coauthor)
    A paper on mineral dust in the SE-Dome ice core has been published in Polar Science.

    Mar 2026 Ueda+ (Sakai and Kondo as coauthors)
    A paper on black carbon on a Mongolian glacier has been published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.