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Jason Box
Climate scientist
Jason Eric Box is an American glaciologist who is professor in glaciology at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. For 10 years (2002-2012) he worked at Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, eventually a tenured physical climatology and geography associate professor in the department of geography.[1][better source needed]
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Box is a publisher in Arctic climatology: for five consecutive years (2008-2012) he was the lead author of the Greenland section of NOAA's annual State of the Climate report, was a contributing author to the IPCC AR4, IPCC AR5, IPCC AR6, and has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications focused on ice climate interactions.[2] He is one of the members of the team doing field work for the Extreme Ice Survey[3] and has led the Dark Snow Project, the first Internet crowd-funded Arctic scientific expedition. He is the former chair of the cryosphere focus group of the American Geophysical Union, of which he is a member. Scientists he has worked with include Eric Rignot.[4][5] He has made more than 20 expeditions to Greenland since 1994, spending a total of more than one year on the Greenland ice.[2]