What Lies Beneath: Using Light, Sound, and Gravity to Understand the Shrinking Antarctic Ice Sheet
Schedule
Wed Sep 25 2024 at 06:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Abandoned Building Brewery | Easthampton, MA
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A glaciologist walks into a bar... looking for ice on the rocks.What Lies Beneath: Using Light, Sound, and Gravity to Understand the Shrinking Antarctic Ice Sheet
Wednesday, September 25
Doors open @ 6pm, presentation starts at 6:30pm
Abandoned Building Brewery
142 Pleasant Street, #103a, Easthampton, MA
- How do we know how much ice is stored in the Antarctic Ice Sheet?
- What changes to the Antarctic Ice Sheet have we observed over the last 20 years?
- How do we explain those changes? What is the ice sheet's likely future?
- What does data collection in Antarctica look like?
Nick Holschuh is an Assistant Professor of Geology at Amherst College. His research focuses on the past, present, and future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet using observational geophysics. He completed my Ph.D. at Penn State through an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship as a student of Dr. Richard Richard Alley and Dr. Sridhar Anandakrishnan. While Nick's postdoctoral research has focused on satellite remote sensing, his Ph.D. worked toward better observational methods using airborne and ground-based radar. Through electromagnetic theory, Nick uses radar data to make inferences about the thermal and chemical properties of the ice column, and through an understanding of the physics of ice flow, he use imagery of the internal structure of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to reconstruct the flow history of the system.
Bring a friend and join us as we enjoy lively conversations, prizes, and brilliant minds. Light refreshments will be available outside the presentation room, first come, first served. ABB allows guests to bring outside food into the establishment: please feel free to bring food if you’d like to! This is an inclusive, family-friendly event for people from all walks of life (ALL are very much welcome: kids, college students, your parents!). We promise, you'll learn something if you come. And hey, you might even win a prize! Remember... Admission is FREE!
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