Our research group will participate in the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, the largest scientific project in Antarctica staged jointly by the US and the UK that was officially launched on on April 30, 2018. The ITGC will comprehensively study Thwaites Glacier and its surroundings in West Antarctica to gather data needed to reduce uncertainties in the estimate of the future global sea-level rise.
There are eight separate projects in the ITGC, and our group is part of TARSAN and GHOST. TARSAN will study ice-ocean interactions in front of Thwaites Glacier, and GHOST will reveal the subglacial geology beneath Thwaites Glacier. Temple university, funded by NSF, will contribute to both of these projects by providing geophysical measurements using active-source seismic and gravity techniques.
Read and watch a video about the ITGC here.
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