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Paul is a geophysicist interested in the physical mechanisms that allow glaciers and ice sheets to flow fast, as well as the tectonic influences on the flow of ice sheets and glaciers. For GHOST, Paul will be focusing on understanding basal conditions using passive seismic observations.

Jessie Crain manages field and research support activities for the U.S. Antarctic Program. She collaborates with the British Antarctic Survey logistics team to plan and schedule deployment of research equipment and scientists to study the Thwaites Glacier.

Lizzy Clyne will be involved in the active source seismic work, assisting with processing, interpretation of internal and basal reflective boundaries, and development of bed condition maps to inform models of the different flow laws to apply across the bed. Her interests are sediment erosion/deposition/transport, ice-bed interactions, glacial seismology, and hydrology.

Byron Parizek is a process-oriented outlet-glacier modeler and flight-line coordinator for the GHOST project.

Julien Bodart is a graduate student in geophysics at the University of Edinburgh. His interests lie in the evolution of ice sheets in response to long-term changes in climatic conditions. As a member of the GHOST team, Julien will be conducting fieldwork on Thwaites Glacier using ground-penetrating radar to sound its subsurface conditions, and use the internal layers found within the ice to reconstruct past changes in velocity and accumulation rates.

As a member of the PROPHET team, Noel Gourmelen will use remote sensing to investigate volume change and melt rates on the Thwaites Glacier.

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