Ice Shelf Collaboration with UC Boulder Published in Nature Communications

February 13, 2019

Doug MacAyeal, Becky Goodsell & Grant Macdonald (photo courtesy of Alison Banwell)

 

Alison Banwell and Ian Willis of CIRES at UC Boulder coauthored a recent paper on ice shelf collapse with collaborator Becky Goodsell and Department grad student Grant Macdonald & Prof. Douglas MacAyeal! They made the first field measurements of Antarctic ice shelf flexure due to meltwater lakes, which can lead to ice shelf break up. Congratulations to all!

The study was published in Nature Communications here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08522-5

UChicago News Article: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/melting-water-causing-antarctic-ice-buckle-scientists-confirm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

CIRES Press Release: https://cires.colorado.edu/news/ice-shelves-buckle-under-weight-meltwater-lakes