[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.
While attending the University of Colorado, Boulder, Box joined a band called "The Sensors," where he played guitar and sang vocals.
[4] He began his expeditions to Greenland as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder, helping his professor, Konrad Steffen, install automated weather stations.
[10] In 2013, Box's prediction of complete Greenland surface melting, which was later proven correct,[citation needed] received attention when it was covered by Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone.
[13] Thomas Painter of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has said that Box "...has one very important quality as a scientist;" namely, that he "is willing to say crazy stuff and push the boundaries of conventional wisdom.