Jason Eric Box is an American glaciologist who is professor in glaciology at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
11 Facts About Jason Box
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Jason Box is one of the members of the team doing field work for the Extreme Ice Survey and has led the Dark Snow Project, the first Internet crowd-funded Arctic scientific expedition.
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Jason Box is the former chair of the cryosphere focus group of the American Geophysical Union, of which he is a member.
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Jason Box has made more than 20 expeditions to Greenland since 1994, spending a total of more than one year on the Greenland ice.
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Jason Box was raised in suburban Denver, the son of a satellite-system engineer who worked for an aerospace company.
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Jason Box received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1994,1997, and 2001, respectively.
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Jason Box began his expeditions to Greenland as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder, helping his professor, Konrad Steffen, install automated weather stations.
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Jason Box has said that humanity has likely already set in motion 21 m of sea level rise as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.
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Jason Box protested against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in 2011, and signed a letter to President Obama urging him not to approve it, which was sent earlier that year and was signed by James Hansen and Peter Gleick.
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In 2014, Jason Box traveled to Greenland, where he discovered that the ice there was exceptionally dark, with Jason Box saying that he was "stunned" when he saw it.
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Jason Box was interviewed by Ann Curry of NBC in April 2014, and appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher in July 2014.