Laura Glastra is a Ph.D. student in Physical Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography. Her research focuses on gas exchange processes in polar regions, specifically how noble gases are partitioned between sea ice and seawater during freezing. She is currently carrying out laboratory experiments to provide further insight to this process. On the 2022 TARSAN cruise she will be collecting samples of seawater for isotopic analysis of noble gases, which can be used as physical tracers to help identify water masses such as glacial meltwater.
As world leaders come together next month for the 26th UN Climate Change Talks of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK, sea-level rise will be on the agenda for countries with low-lying areas looking at how to manage rising seas. Today (11 October 2021) a new film launches to highlight how the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, of around 100 scientists from the US, UK, Germany and Korea, are aiming to reduce the uncertainty of sea-level rise from the mighty Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
Samuel Kachuck is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the DOMINOS project, based at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is studying how the quickly deforming mantle under Thwaites might impact the stability of its grounding line and how to incorporate crevasses in a large scale ice sheet model to project Thwaites' future calving behaviors.
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Crawford, A.J., D.I. Benn, J. Todd, et al. 2021. Marine ice-cliff instability modeling shows mixed-mode ice-cliff failure and yields calving rate parameterization. Nat Commun 12, 2701.
Leilani Henry is ITGC's inclusion, diversity, equity and access (IDEA) consultant and specialist. She works with the participants of the ITGC program to build a welcoming, equitable community through workshops and coaching.
Elizabeth Case (she/they) is a PhD candidate at Columbia University and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Their research focuses on how snow turns into ice, water moves through old snow (firn), and snow and ice change, move, and can be measured under strain. They co-founded Cycle for Science, an adventure education program that translates research into K-12 lesson plans, and was faculty on the Juneau Icefield Research Program in 2018 and 2019. When they're not teaching or on ice, they love to climb and write. You can find her on twitter at @elizabeth_case.
Dr. Patricia Yager is a Professor at the University of Georgia Department of Marine Science. She is the lead Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded ARTEMIS project, a oceangoing collaboration with TARSAN and THOR. Her interdisciplinary research includes oceanography, marine ecology, and biogeochemistry. Her efforts concentrate on the feedbacks between climate and marine ecosystems, and include both fieldwork and modeling. Recent projects have investigated the effects of melting ice sheets on Arctic and Antarctic coastal productivity and carbon sequestration. She was awarded a Visiting Professorship (Science without Borders; Ciência sem Fronteiras) in Brazil, and the Antarctic Service Medal. Her research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, NASA, DOE, NOAA, and the Keck Foundation. She has over 75 peer-reviewed publications, and has been cited more than 4900 times. She is the Director of the Georgia Initiative for Climate and Society and co-director of the Georgia Climate Project. She lives in Athens, Georgia with her husband, a geologist, and their two college-age sons.
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dos Santos, T. D., M. Morlighem, and H. Seroussi. 2021. Assessment of numerical schemes for transient, finite-element ice flow models using ISSM v4.18. Geosci. Model Dev., 14: 2545–2573.
