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UK and US scientists are collaborating to investigate one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, roughly the same size as Florida or Britain. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites is the widest glacier on Earth, at ~120 km (~80 miles) wide. Its fastest flowing grounded ice is centred between 50 and 100 km (31 and 62 mi) east of Mount Murphy on the north coast of West Antarctica. (Source: Elevation Map of Antarctica (REMA), Howat et al., 2019, The Cryosphere) 2. Thwaites Glacier Basin measures 74,000 mi² or NEWS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Exploring Antarctica's Upside Down World June 1, 2021 Writer Douglas Fox accompanied ITGC researchers into the field in 2019/2020, where he witnessed TARSAN scientists Erin Pettit, Ted Scambos, MELT scientist Britney Schmidt, and others drill into the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf to learn about the shelf's properties and its thickness. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites Offshore Research (THOR) is a ship-based and ice-based project that will examine the sedimentary records both offshore from the glacier and beneath the ice shelf, together with glacial landforms on the sea bed, to reconstruct past changes in ocean conditions and EDUCATION | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites-Explorer online interactive tool for web browsers. Thwaites-Explorer is an online interactive tool for exploring Thwaites Glacier and learning about why it is the focus of our research. Users can click straight on the data to see rates of ice loss, depth of cavities under the ice, speed of ice flow and more, and can locate and

read

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER UPDATE May 14, 2020: No media visits to Thwaites Glacier 2020/21. It has been announced by the National Science Foundation that there will be no media visits to Thwaites Glacier during the 2020/21 field season. Whilst it is an important part of ITGC to communicate our work to the public through the media, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Olaf Eisen is head of the field glaciology group at the Alfred Wegener Institute and a professor for glaciology at the University of Bremen. With two decades of experience of applying geophysical techniques on glaciers and ice sheets, he heads a team in charge of operating the Alfred Wegener Institute's vibroseismic source and seismic streamer during the GHOST traverses. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Kiya Riverman, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Oregon studying glacial dynamics and ice-ocean interactions along the Antarctic Peninsula, is a research assistant for ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Alex Brisbourne 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. As a member of the GHOST team, Alex will investigate the sediment, hydrology, and bedrock beneath the Thwaites Glacier, and

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ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Vaughan is a lead principal investigator for the Science Coordination Office of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (SCO project). He and his team will integrate ITGC efforts for efficiency and effectiveness, foster wider scientific collaboration, and deliver crucial science outcomes to ITGC THWAITES GLACIERABOUTPROJECTSNEWS & EVENTSEDUCATIONRESOURCESFIELD

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UK and US scientists are collaborating to investigate one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, roughly the same size as Florida or Britain. NEWS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Exploring Antarctica's Upside Down World June 1, 2021 Writer Douglas Fox accompanied ITGC researchers into the field in 2019/2020, where he witnessed TARSAN scientists Erin Pettit, Ted Scambos, MELT scientist Britney Schmidt, and others drill into the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf to learn about the shelf's properties and its thickness. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites is the widest glacier on Earth, at ~120 km (~80 miles) wide. Its fastest flowing grounded ice is centred between 50 and 100 km (31 and 62 mi) east of Mount Murphy on the north coast of West Antarctica. (Source: Elevation Map of Antarctica (REMA), Howat et al., 2019, The Cryosphere) 2. Thwaites Glacier Basin measures 74,000 mi² or EDUCATION | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites-Explorer online interactive tool for web browsers. Thwaites-Explorer is an online interactive tool for exploring Thwaites Glacier and learning about why it is the focus of our research. Users can click straight on the data to see rates of ice loss, depth of cavities under the ice, speed of ice flow and more, and can locate and

read

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER UPDATE May 14, 2020: No media visits to Thwaites Glacier 2020/21. It has been announced by the National Science Foundation that there will be no media visits to Thwaites Glacier during the 2020/21 field season. Whilst it is an important part of ITGC to communicate our work to the public through the media, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites Offshore Research (THOR) is a ship-based and ice-based project that will examine the sedimentary records both offshore from the glacier and beneath the ice shelf, together with glacial landforms on the sea bed, to reconstruct past changes in ocean conditions and ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Olaf Eisen is head of the field glaciology group at the Alfred Wegener Institute and a professor for glaciology at the University of Bremen. With two decades of experience of applying geophysical techniques on glaciers and ice sheets, he heads a team in charge of operating the Alfred Wegener Institute's vibroseismic source and seismic streamer during the GHOST traverses. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Kiya Riverman, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Oregon studying glacial dynamics and ice-ocean interactions along the Antarctic Peninsula, is a research assistant for ITGC THWAITES GLACIER PhD student. Affiliation. UEA: University of East Anglia. Email. Yixi.Zheng@uea.ac.uk. Project. TARSAN. Yixi's research focuses on ocean-ice-air and ocean-ice shelf interactions. As a member of TARSAN team, she uses the data collected by seals to understand the response

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ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Alex Brisbourne 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. As a member of the GHOST team, Alex will investigate the sediment, hydrology, and bedrock beneath the Thwaites Glacier, and

help feed

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER UK and US scientists are collaborating to investigate one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, roughly the same size as Florida or Britain. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER The Thwaites Glacier - Amundsen Sea system involves a complex set of interactions between the atmosphere, ice, and ocean. ‘Warm’ water, a few degrees above freezing, is pushed up from the deep open ocean and onto the continental shelf, where it flows along the bottom until it reaches the point where the ice sheet begins to float—called the ‘grounding line’. PEOPLE | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Bernd Kulessa. Professor of Geophysics and Glaciology, Director of

Research.

EDUCATION | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites-Explorer online interactive tool for web browsers. Thwaites-Explorer is an online interactive tool for exploring Thwaites Glacier and learning about why it is the focus of our research. Users can click straight on the data to see rates of ice loss, depth of cavities under the ice, speed of ice flow and more, and can locate and

read

RESOURCES | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER � 2021 CIRES is a partnership of NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under ITGC THWAITES GLACIER The NERC and NSF partnership, called the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), covers research across Thwaites Glacier and its adjacent ocean region; the glacier flows into Pine Island Bay, part of Amundsen Sea. ITGC is the largest joint UK-US project undertaken on the southern continent in ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (MELT) MELT is an ice-based project to understand how warm waters are affecting the Thwaites Glacier at the grounding line – the point where the glacier goes afloat to become ice shelf. This will allow the glacier’s potential sea-level contribution to be more accurately

predicted.

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Hidden from view by ice kilometres thick, there is a vast network of lakes and streams under the Antarctic ice sheet. Using a decade of altimetry data from European Space Agency’s (ESA) CryoSat satellite, researchers at the University of Edinburgh, including a scientist with the PROPHET project of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), have made an unexpected discovery ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Vaughan is a lead principal investigator for the Science Coordination Office of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (SCO project). He and his team will integrate ITGC efforts for efficiency and effectiveness, foster wider scientific collaboration, and deliver crucial science outcomes to

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David Holland is a professor of mathematics and atmosphere/ocean science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (EFDL) in New York City, and director of the Center for Sea Level

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UK and US scientists are collaborating to investigate one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, roughly the same size as Florida or Britain. NEWS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Exploring Antarctica's Upside Down World June 1, 2021 Writer Douglas Fox accompanied ITGC researchers into the field in 2019/2020, where he witnessed TARSAN scientists Erin Pettit, Ted Scambos, MELT scientist Britney Schmidt, and others drill into the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf to learn about the shelf's properties and its thickness. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites is the widest glacier on Earth, at ~120 km (~80 miles) wide. Its fastest flowing grounded ice is centred between 50 and 100 km (31 and 62 mi) east of Mount Murphy on the north coast of West Antarctica. (Source: Elevation Map of Antarctica (REMA), Howat et al., 2019, The Cryosphere) 2. Thwaites Glacier Basin measures 74,000 mi² or EDUCATION | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites-Explorer online interactive tool for web browsers. Thwaites-Explorer is an online interactive tool for exploring Thwaites Glacier and learning about why it is the focus of our research. Users can click straight on the data to see rates of ice loss, depth of cavities under the ice, speed of ice flow and more, and can locate and

read

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER UPDATE May 14, 2020: No media visits to Thwaites Glacier 2020/21. It has been announced by the National Science Foundation that there will be no media visits to Thwaites Glacier during the 2020/21 field season. Whilst it is an important part of ITGC to communicate our work to the public through the media, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the PEOPLE | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Bernd Kulessa. Professor of Geophysics and Glaciology, Director of

Research.

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites Offshore Research (THOR) is a ship-based and ice-based project that will examine the sedimentary records both offshore from the glacier and beneath the ice shelf, together with glacial landforms on the sea bed, to reconstruct past changes in ocean conditions and PROJECTS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Projects. Proposed methods to study the Thwaites Glacier, labled with project acronyms/abbreviations. Unifying the projects will be SCO. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Olaf Eisen is head of the field glaciology group at the Alfred Wegener Institute and a professor for glaciology at the University of Bremen. With two decades of experience of applying geophysical techniques on glaciers and ice sheets, he heads a team in charge of operating the Alfred Wegener Institute's vibroseismic source and seismic streamer during the GHOST traverses. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (MELT) MELT is an ice-based project to understand how warm waters are affecting the Thwaites Glacier at the grounding line – the point where the glacier goes afloat to become ice shelf. This will allow the glacier’s potential sea-level contribution to be more accurately

predicted.

ITGC THWAITES GLACIERABOUTPROJECTSNEWS & EVENTSEDUCATIONRESOURCESFIELD

ACTIVITIES

UK and US scientists are collaborating to investigate one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, roughly the same size as Florida or Britain. NEWS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Exploring Antarctica's Upside Down World June 1, 2021 Writer Douglas Fox accompanied ITGC researchers into the field in 2019/2020, where he witnessed TARSAN scientists Erin Pettit, Ted Scambos, MELT scientist Britney Schmidt, and others drill into the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf to learn about the shelf's properties and its thickness. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites is the widest glacier on Earth, at ~120 km (~80 miles) wide. Its fastest flowing grounded ice is centred between 50 and 100 km (31 and 62 mi) east of Mount Murphy on the north coast of West Antarctica. (Source: Elevation Map of Antarctica (REMA), Howat et al., 2019, The Cryosphere) 2. Thwaites Glacier Basin measures 74,000 mi² or EDUCATION | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites-Explorer online interactive tool for web browsers. Thwaites-Explorer is an online interactive tool for exploring Thwaites Glacier and learning about why it is the focus of our research. Users can click straight on the data to see rates of ice loss, depth of cavities under the ice, speed of ice flow and more, and can locate and

read

PEOPLE | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Bernd Kulessa. Professor of Geophysics and Glaciology, Director of

Research.

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER UPDATE May 14, 2020: No media visits to Thwaites Glacier 2020/21. It has been announced by the National Science Foundation that there will be no media visits to Thwaites Glacier during the 2020/21 field season. Whilst it is an important part of ITGC to communicate our work to the public through the media, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites Offshore Research (THOR) is a ship-based and ice-based project that will examine the sedimentary records both offshore from the glacier and beneath the ice shelf, together with glacial landforms on the sea bed, to reconstruct past changes in ocean conditions and PROJECTS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Projects. Proposed methods to study the Thwaites Glacier, labled with project acronyms/abbreviations. Unifying the projects will be SCO. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Olaf Eisen is head of the field glaciology group at the Alfred Wegener Institute and a professor for glaciology at the University of Bremen. With two decades of experience of applying geophysical techniques on glaciers and ice sheets, he heads a team in charge of operating the Alfred Wegener Institute's vibroseismic source and seismic streamer during the GHOST traverses. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (MELT) MELT is an ice-based project to understand how warm waters are affecting the Thwaites Glacier at the grounding line – the point where the glacier goes afloat to become ice shelf. This will allow the glacier’s potential sea-level contribution to be more accurately

predicted.

DATA | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER A multibeam-bathymetric compilation for the southern Amundsen Sea shelf, 1999-2019. Multibeam-bathymetry data provides a high resolution 3D rendering of the seafloor that, when collected offshore large marine-terminating glaciers, inform us about potential warm water pathways towards their grounding lines, as well as about the terrain that ice has moved over and shaped in the past. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER The Thwaites Glacier - Amundsen Sea system involves a complex set of interactions between the atmosphere, ice, and ocean. ‘Warm’ water, a few degrees above freezing, is pushed up from the deep open ocean and onto the continental shelf, where it flows along the bottom until it reaches the point where the ice sheet begins to float—called the ‘grounding line’. PEOPLE | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Bernd Kulessa. Professor of Geophysics and Glaciology, Director of

Research.

EDUCATION | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites-Explorer online interactive tool for web browsers. Thwaites-Explorer is an online interactive tool for exploring Thwaites Glacier and learning about why it is the focus of our research. Users can click straight on the data to see rates of ice loss, depth of cavities under the ice, speed of ice flow and more, and can locate and

read

MEDIA | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER � 2021 CIRES is a partnership of NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under ITGC THWAITES GLACIER A team of over 20 polar scientists from the UK, US and Sweden set sail 29 January 2019 on the first ship-based research expedition of the ITGC Program to Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. GHC is represented by Meghan Spoth and Scott Braddock, both graduate students at the University of Maine. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER The NERC and NSF partnership, called the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), covers research across Thwaites Glacier and its adjacent ocean region; the glacier flows into Pine Island Bay, part of Amundsen Sea. ITGC is the largest joint UK-US project undertaken on the southern continent in ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (MELT) MELT is an ice-based project to understand how warm waters are affecting the Thwaites Glacier at the grounding line – the point where the glacier goes afloat to become ice shelf. This will allow the glacier’s potential sea-level contribution to be more accurately

predicted.

BLOGS AND WRITING

Snow on Ice: The little orange submarine #3. February 1, 2019. Snow on Ice: Thwaites Glacier Science at Sea. The ship bobbed lazily in the Straits of Magellan, ringed by the snow-capped mountains of the far southern Andes, the sun becoming quite warm, the water still as glass.

Read More.

DAVID HOLLAND

David Holland is a professor of mathematics and atmosphere/ocean science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (EFDL) in New York City, and director of the Center for Sea Level

Change at

ITGC THWAITES GLACIERABOUTPROJECTSNEWS & EVENTSEDUCATIONRESOURCESFIELD

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UK and US scientists are collaborating to investigate one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, roughly the same size as Florida or Britain. NEWS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Exploring Antarctica's Upside Down World June 1, 2021 Writer Douglas Fox accompanied ITGC researchers into the field in 2019/2020, where he witnessed TARSAN scientists Erin Pettit, Ted Scambos, MELT scientist Britney Schmidt, and others drill into the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf to learn about the shelf's properties and its thickness. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites is the widest glacier on Earth, at ~120 km (~80 miles) wide. Its fastest flowing grounded ice is centred between 50 and 100 km (31 and 62 mi) east of Mount Murphy on the north coast of West Antarctica. (Source: Elevation Map of Antarctica (REMA), Howat et al., 2019, The Cryosphere) 2. Thwaites Glacier Basin measures 74,000 mi² or EDUCATION | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites-Explorer online interactive tool for web browsers. Thwaites-Explorer is an online interactive tool for exploring Thwaites Glacier and learning about why it is the focus of our research. Users can click straight on the data to see rates of ice loss, depth of cavities under the ice, speed of ice flow and more, and can locate and

read

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER UPDATE May 14, 2020: No media visits to Thwaites Glacier 2020/21. It has been announced by the National Science Foundation that there will be no media visits to Thwaites Glacier during the 2020/21 field season. Whilst it is an important part of ITGC to communicate our work to the public through the media, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the PEOPLE | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Bernd Kulessa. Professor of Geophysics and Glaciology, Director of

Research.

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites Offshore Research (THOR) is a ship-based and ice-based project that will examine the sedimentary records both offshore from the glacier and beneath the ice shelf, together with glacial landforms on the sea bed, to reconstruct past changes in ocean conditions and PROJECTS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Projects. Proposed methods to study the Thwaites Glacier, labled with project acronyms/abbreviations. Unifying the projects will be SCO. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Olaf Eisen is head of the field glaciology group at the Alfred Wegener Institute and a professor for glaciology at the University of Bremen. With two decades of experience of applying geophysical techniques on glaciers and ice sheets, he heads a team in charge of operating the Alfred Wegener Institute's vibroseismic source and seismic streamer during the GHOST traverses. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (MELT) MELT is an ice-based project to understand how warm waters are affecting the Thwaites Glacier at the grounding line – the point where the glacier goes afloat to become ice shelf. This will allow the glacier’s potential sea-level contribution to be more accurately

predicted.

ITGC THWAITES GLACIERABOUTPROJECTSNEWS & EVENTSEDUCATIONRESOURCESFIELD

ACTIVITIES

UK and US scientists are collaborating to investigate one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, roughly the same size as Florida or Britain. NEWS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Exploring Antarctica's Upside Down World June 1, 2021 Writer Douglas Fox accompanied ITGC researchers into the field in 2019/2020, where he witnessed TARSAN scientists Erin Pettit, Ted Scambos, MELT scientist Britney Schmidt, and others drill into the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf to learn about the shelf's properties and its thickness. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites is the widest glacier on Earth, at ~120 km (~80 miles) wide. Its fastest flowing grounded ice is centred between 50 and 100 km (31 and 62 mi) east of Mount Murphy on the north coast of West Antarctica. (Source: Elevation Map of Antarctica (REMA), Howat et al., 2019, The Cryosphere) 2. Thwaites Glacier Basin measures 74,000 mi² or EDUCATION | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites-Explorer online interactive tool for web browsers. Thwaites-Explorer is an online interactive tool for exploring Thwaites Glacier and learning about why it is the focus of our research. Users can click straight on the data to see rates of ice loss, depth of cavities under the ice, speed of ice flow and more, and can locate and

read

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER UPDATE May 14, 2020: No media visits to Thwaites Glacier 2020/21. It has been announced by the National Science Foundation that there will be no media visits to Thwaites Glacier during the 2020/21 field season. Whilst it is an important part of ITGC to communicate our work to the public through the media, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the PEOPLE | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Bernd Kulessa. Professor of Geophysics and Glaciology, Director of

Research.

ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites Offshore Research (THOR) is a ship-based and ice-based project that will examine the sedimentary records both offshore from the glacier and beneath the ice shelf, together with glacial landforms on the sea bed, to reconstruct past changes in ocean conditions and PROJECTS | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Projects. Proposed methods to study the Thwaites Glacier, labled with project acronyms/abbreviations. Unifying the projects will be SCO. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Olaf Eisen is head of the field glaciology group at the Alfred Wegener Institute and a professor for glaciology at the University of Bremen. With two decades of experience of applying geophysical techniques on glaciers and ice sheets, he heads a team in charge of operating the Alfred Wegener Institute's vibroseismic source and seismic streamer during the GHOST traverses. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (MELT) MELT is an ice-based project to understand how warm waters are affecting the Thwaites Glacier at the grounding line – the point where the glacier goes afloat to become ice shelf. This will allow the glacier’s potential sea-level contribution to be more accurately

predicted.

DATA | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER A multibeam-bathymetric compilation for the southern Amundsen Sea shelf, 1999-2019. Multibeam-bathymetry data provides a high resolution 3D rendering of the seafloor that, when collected offshore large marine-terminating glaciers, inform us about potential warm water pathways towards their grounding lines, as well as about the terrain that ice has moved over and shaped in the past. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER The Thwaites Glacier - Amundsen Sea system involves a complex set of interactions between the atmosphere, ice, and ocean. ‘Warm’ water, a few degrees above freezing, is pushed up from the deep open ocean and onto the continental shelf, where it flows along the bottom until it reaches the point where the ice sheet begins to float—called the ‘grounding line’. PEOPLE | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Bernd Kulessa. Professor of Geophysics and Glaciology, Director of

Research.

EDUCATION | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Thwaites-Explorer online interactive tool for web browsers. Thwaites-Explorer is an online interactive tool for exploring Thwaites Glacier and learning about why it is the focus of our research. Users can click straight on the data to see rates of ice loss, depth of cavities under the ice, speed of ice flow and more, and can locate and

read

MEDIA | ITGC THWAITES GLACIER � 2021 CIRES is a partnership of NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under ITGC THWAITES GLACIER A team of over 20 polar scientists from the UK, US and Sweden set sail 29 January 2019 on the first ship-based research expedition of the ITGC Program to Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. GHC is represented by Meghan Spoth and Scott Braddock, both graduate students at the University of Maine. ITGC THWAITES GLACIER The NERC and NSF partnership, called the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), covers research across Thwaites Glacier and its adjacent ocean region; the glacier flows into Pine Island Bay, part of Amundsen Sea. ITGC is the largest joint UK-US project undertaken on the southern continent in ITGC THWAITES GLACIER Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (MELT) MELT is an ice-based project to understand how warm waters are affecting the Thwaites Glacier at the grounding line – the point where the glacier goes afloat to become ice shelf. This will allow the glacier’s potential sea-level contribution to be more accurately

predicted.

BLOGS AND WRITING

Snow on Ice: The little orange submarine #3. February 1, 2019. Snow on Ice: Thwaites Glacier Science at Sea. The ship bobbed lazily in the Straits of Magellan, ringed by the snow-capped mountains of the far southern Andes, the sun becoming quite warm, the water still as glass.

Read More.

DAVID HOLLAND

David Holland is a professor of mathematics and atmosphere/ocean science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (EFDL) in New York City, and director of the Center for Sea Level

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