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Nearly 60 scientists and support staff are on their way to Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica as 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 fourth of five planned field seasons for the research.

Tara is pursuing her PhD at the University of Texas at El Paso with interests in lunar geology, seismology, medical geology, remote sensing, and field geology. She is serving as a field scientist on the TIME team. Tara hopes her research will help astronauts become specialists in lunar geology and that her research will help them deploy a seismic array on the lunar surface, much like what is being accomplished on Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.
Anna Broome is a PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She is designing and building a new multi-frequency joint radar-radiometer system to better measure basal and englacial properties on ice sheets.

Meghana's research focuses on uncovering the underlying physical processes governing ice flow and fracture, spanning scales from the micro-scale ice physics to macro-scale ice sheet behavior. Much of her work investigates the processes activated by rapid ice deformation, which typically take place in shear margins, from a modeling perspective. With the TIME project, she is assisting in the gathering of field measurements of the processes that she hopes to model, and the data from TIME will be invaluable in informing these parameterizations and a mathematical picture of ice deformation.

Emma Pearce is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Strasbourg. She uses seismology (active and passive) to look at the structure of ice and is part of the 2022-23 TIME field team, helping with seismology.

Mark is a PhD student at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. His research uses full-Stokes flow models to better understand the dynamic effects of subglacial topography, hydrologic drain networks, and ice fracture.


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.

Commitment was expressed in early project meetings for building a community that encompassed the IDEA goals; these found new energy through the 2020 formation of the IDEA Council (formerly known as JEDI). Annually the IDEA Council has compiled a report on the actions and progress made by the ITGC community around Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity and Access. The report serves as an opportunity to reflect on progress as well as to set goals for the coming year. 

2021 IDEA Report