ITGC: How are you going to study Thwaites Glacier?
ITGC: Why are the US and UK collaborating?
ITGC: Is Thwaites Glacier contributing to sea level rise?
ITGC: Why should we care about Thwaites Glacier?
We are pleased to announce the 2019 International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) "Next Generation" Retreat for early career Thwaites researchers. The meeting will be held 27-30 of August, 2019 at Culford School, just outside Bury St Edmunds, about 40 km from Cambridge, UK. We hope the event will attract 35-40 participants. This is an opportunity for early-career scientists attached to ITGC to come together and set their own agenda, and explore their own ideas around the future of research on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Leigh Stearns is a glaciologist who studies outlet glacier dynamics in Greenland, Antarctica, and Alaska using satellite remote sensing techniques, field based observations, and numerical modeling. She will spearhead the satellite remote sensing component of this project, and correlate ground-based measurements with those that are observable from space.
Alex Brisbourne is a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey. He uses a range of geophysical techniques to investigate the properties of glacial ice and what lies beneath it, helping to better understand how the ice sheets will evolve with our changing climate.
Alex is a Principal Investigator on the GHOST project. He will travel to Antarctica in 2023/2024 to use seismic and radar methods to investigate the sediment, hydrology, and bedrock beneath the Thwaites Glacier, and help feed this information into models of how the glacier may evolve in the near future.
Thiago Dias dos Santos is a postdoctoral researcher working on ice sheet numerical modelling for the PROPHET project.
Indrani Das will work on calculating basal reflectivity from radar data that will provide information about the bed conditions under Thwaites.
As a member of the PROPHET team, Brent Minchew specializes in remote sensing observations of surface velocity.
