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The final field season of the ambitious, international effort to understand Antarctica’s giant Thwaites Glacier is complete. Teams of scientists and support staff with the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) have spent the past couple of months working on the Thwaites Glacier to advance our knowledge of how it interacts with the ocean and climate, and improve the predictions of its future contributions to sea level rise.

Ran, the seven metre-long, bright orange, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and a highly valued component of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), has gone missing in action in West Antarctica. The AUV has contributed key data to ITGC, including the first data from under Thwaites ice shelf1 and high resolution maps that show where Thwaites Glacier was grounded in the past2. Ran disappeared the first weekend of February during an expedition to Thwaites Glacier with the South Korean icebreaker RV/IB Araon.

Emily Neville
Communications and Engagement Manager
Affiliation
BAS: British Antarctic Survey
Project
SCO

Emily works on the UK communications for the Science Coordination Office (SCO) for the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. Alongside the SCO team, she plans and develops news and press releases, produces content for social media and liaises with research teams.

 

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December 2023: Thirty-seven scientists and over 24 support staff are on their way to Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. They are part of the ambitious international effort to understand the glacier and surrounding ocean system to determine its future contributions to global sea-level rise. This season represents the final large scale field season of the collaboration.
Tom Lawrie
Driller
Affiliation
University of California Santa Cruz
Project
TIME

Tom Lawrie is assisting the TIME team on Thwaites Glacier for the 2023-24 field season.

Yeshey Seldon
Department
Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences
Graduate Student
Affiliation
University of Texas at El Paso
Project
TIME

Yeshey Seldon works on the TIME project conducting seismic studies of Thwaites Glacier and analyzing the data.

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