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Iain Wheel is a PhD student in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews. He will be applying Elmer/Ice and HiDEM models to investigate ice shelf and ice-cliff [in]stability.

Jonathan Adams is a PhD student and a researcher on the GHC project. 

C. Rosie Williams's role within the project is centered around working with Robert Arthern on the ice-sheet model WAVI at BAS. They will support the effort to couple the ocean model MITgcm with the ice model, and run forward simulations. Using Bayesian methods with the ensemble of model runs provides an improved assessment of the probable contribution to sea level from Thwaites Glacier during the 21st century.

Brandon Berg is a physics PhD student at the University of Michigan. He is working to understand the effect of crevasse movement and advection in glacier calving models in order to improve future projections of calving behavior.

Ben is one of the electrical engineers for the Icefin vehicle, tasked primarily with assembly of the electrical internals. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in the Ocean Science and Engineering program at Georgia Tech researching miniaturization of instrumentation for ocean AUV/ROV applications.

Andrew is an engineer and a member of the Icefin team that will travel to the Thwaites Glacier as part of the MELT Project. Icefin is a specialized underwater robotic vehicle designed to be deployed in the ocean through a narrow hole in the ice shelf. The team will use this remotely operated vehicle to map ocean cavities beneath the ice shelf and to improve understanding of the processes contributing to glacial melt and retreat. Andrew is currently designing instruments for Icefin and will contribute to the vehicles deployment and operations in Antarctica.

Daniel Dichek is the lead electrical engineer on the Icefin ROV/AUV team, and will be helping to deploy Icefin through holes drilled in the Thwaites Glacier. Icefin is an underwater ROV/AUV is designed to take under ice oceanographic data as well as bathymetry, sonar and imaging of the ice-ocean interface and the seafloor.

Amin Amiri is working on tasks to design the RF transponder and radar nodes to be deployed on Thawites.

Anthony is working on software and electrical engineering for the Icefin vehicle. Icefin is an underwater ROV/AUV is designed to take under ice oceanographic data as well as bathymetry, sonar and imaging of the ice-ocean interface and the seafloor.

Britney is a Co-Investigator on the MELT Project, and the PI of the Icefin team. Icefin is an underwater ROV/AUV is designed to take under ice oceanographic data as well as bathymetry, sonar and imaging of the ice-ocean interface and the seafloor.