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We are excited to announce the 2022 Antarctica Week Festival will be held the week of November 28. We will have four opportunities to hear from researchers from ITGC projects such as TIME, GHC and MELT so be ready to ask your questions about what it's like to work in Antarctica and why it's important to conduct research on our poles and particularly on Thwaites Glacier. Please register at the links below and submit any questions you have as you register or at the time of the talk! Be sure to join us!
ITGC hosts the annual Antarctica Festival, celebrating the 1 December 1959 signing of the Antarctic Treaty with a series of educational talks and activities for students of all ages. Join us for the event, which coincides with the first week of December.

Martin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in ice-sheet modelling in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests focus on using numerical ice-flow modelling and geophysical data analysis to gain insight into past, current and future ice-sheet dynamics. His work is motivated by the need to quantify future ice-sheet contributions to sea-level rise.

As part of ITGC, Martin is using a combination of ice-sheet modeling, satellite data and machine learning to improve understanding of complex ice-sheet processes that are currently absent from most ice-sheet models. This includes the formation and evolution of ice damage (such as crevasses and fractures), which plays an important role in controlling the flow of ice. The outputs from this work will improve the representation of these processes in ice-sheet models and thereby reduce uncertainty in future projections.

Chad Naughton is the Science Project Manager for the US Antarctic Program and supports field logistics for the ITGC and other US researchers in Antarctica.


How the mighty Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica could contribute to global sea-level rise will form part of the final episode of the BBC Natural History Unit’s blockbuster series Frozen Planet II.

Peter is a researcher at British Antarctic Survey and is a member of the MELT team and of the Science Coordination Office.