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July 14, 2022

Coastal Glacier Retreat Linked to Climate Change

A wall of blue ice towers over the sea.

More of the world’s coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever, but exactly what’s triggering the large-scale retreat has been difficult to pin down because of natural fluctuations in the glaciers’ surroundings. Now, researchers at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a methodology that they think… Continue Reading Coastal Glacier Retreat Linked to Climate Change

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: climate change, coastal glaciers, computer modeling, Georgia Tech, Ginny Catania, glacial retreat, glaciers, glaciology, Greenland, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, John Christian, Sea Level Rise, University of Texas, UTIG

January 31, 2022

Robotic Exploration of Uncharted, Underwater Glacial Walls Set for 2023

The robot in action underwater. The lights from its open payload bay doors light up ice underwater

It’s the front line of climate change and could hold the key to predicting global sea level rise, but what goes on at the underwater face of Greenland’s glaciers is a mystery to science. That could change in 2023 with a bold new mission led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin that… Continue Reading Robotic Exploration of Uncharted, Underwater Glacial Walls Set for 2023

Filed Under: Climate Stories, homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: Ginny Catania, glaciers, Greenland, Keck Foundation, Nereid Under Ice (NUI), remote submersible, robotic exploration, sea ice, Sea Level Rise, underwater exploration

April 12, 2021

UT Begins Offshore Search for Sand Resources to Protect Texas from Coastal Erosion

A picture of windswept sand dunes at McFaddin beach. Overwash is visible but plants growing in the dunes are largely intact.

Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin will embark from Galveston on April 14 in search of sunken treasure that holds the key to protecting Texas from storms and rising seas: sand. About 80% of Texas’ Gulf shoreline is critically eroded, and the state is running out of easily accessible sand to rebuild and… Continue Reading UT Begins Offshore Search for Sand Resources to Protect Texas from Coastal Erosion

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News, Stories Tagged With: CEPRA, Chris Lowery, coastal erosion, coastal protection, coastal resources, hurricanes, John Goff, marine geoscience, MG&G, sand, sand resources, Sea Level Rise, Sean Gulick, storm surge, storms, Texas, Texas coast, Texas GLO, Trinity River, Trinity Valley

October 6, 2016

UTIG researchers aim to study future sea level changes by obtaining paleosea records in the Federal States of Micronesia

Rising sea level is, and will be, an issue facing coastal regions, including Middle Pacific islands, for the foreseeable future. UTIG scientists are trying to assess the magnitude, rates and geographic distribution of future changes in sea level by studying past sea level changes. Continue Reading UTIG researchers aim to study future sea level changes by obtaining paleosea records in the Federal States of Micronesia

Filed Under: Climate Stories, homepage-news, homepage-slider, News Tagged With: microatolls, Micronesia, Mid-Pacific, Paleosea, Sea Level Rise

February 4, 2016

Scientists map movement of Greenland Ice During Past 9,000 years

  Scientists have created the first map that shows how the Greenland Ice Sheet has moved over time, revealing that ice in the interior is moving more slowly toward the edges than it has, on average, during the past 9,000 years. The findings, which researchers said don’t change the fact that the ice sheet is… Continue Reading Scientists map movement of Greenland Ice During Past 9,000 years

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Climate, glaciers, Greenland, ice sheets, research, Sea Level Rise

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