“Our whole Earth system depends, in part, on these ice sheets,” said Dominik Gräff. “It’s a fragile system, and if you disturb it even just a little bit, it could collapse. We need to understand the turning points. This requires deep, process-based knowledge of glacial mass loss”
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ALT a team of researchers in a boat surrounded by ice
UW ESS scientists deployed a fiber-optic cable in a Greenland fjord to study ice calving. Their findings show a key process speeding glacier mass loss & impacting ice sheets, ocean currents & ecosystems.
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