Collaborative Research: Grounding-line Retreat in the Southern Ross Sea - Constraints from Scott Glacier

• Main Author: Hall, Brenda L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2010
• Subjects: Antarctic Glaciology; Climate Change; Glaciology; Antarctic; Ross Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Reedy Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; International Polar Year; Scott Glacier
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/orsp_reports/294; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&context=orsp_reports

This award supports a project to investigate late Pleistocene and Holocene changes in Scott Glacier, a key outlet glacier that flows directly into the Ross Sea just west of the present-day West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) grounding line. The overarching goals are to understand changes in WAIS configu...