A high-tech expedition to sample the ocean under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf confirms what the earliest explorers thought: everywhere we look we find microbes, scavenging any energy source available.
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A new modelling approach improves projections of Antarctica’s future ice loss. It shows a low-emissions scenario would avoid the collapse of West Antarctica’s ice sheet and limit sea-level rise.
Latest research explores how a warming ocean circulates underneath Antarctica’s floating ice shelves and how this contributes to future sea level rise.
New research shows that ocean and air temperatures both contributed to the melting of Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf in the past, but melting from below by a warming ocean became more important over time.
Parts of Antarctica’s largest ice shelf are melting ten times faster than the rest of the shelf, and solar heated waters below the ice are to blame.
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Professor and Dean of the School of Surveying (glaciology specialisation), University of Otago
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Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science
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Professor in Ocean Physics, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
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Professor of Glaciology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Marine Physicist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
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Environmental Data Scientist, GNS Science
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Associate Professor of microbial oceanography, Universität Wien
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Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology, University of Otago
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Postdoctoral Researcher in marine microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
