helen-amanda.bsky.social
Professor of Glaciology at Scripps Polar Center, UC San Diego
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Studies Antarctica with satellites
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Graduate of @UCL & @UTAS
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Earth at 1.5 degrees warming: How vulnerable is Antarctica? By @helen-amanda.bsky.social @bryonyfreer.bsky.social Benjamin Galton-Fenzi and @capcomcatwalk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Are they helping you find that philanthropy?
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Congratulations on the paper. It’s awesome! Amazing graphics.
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So that’s why I love ice shelves; I grew up where one once was…
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We mapped the distinctive plough-marks these spectacular giants carved as their undersides dragged across the seafloor of the North Sea as they drifted in currents out towards the ocean.
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We have changed the trajectory of future warming over the course of my lifetime. The worst-case climate scenarios are no longer likely. That’s not due to modeling uncertainty; it’s because of activism. No one gets to erase that just because they find a perverse comfort in the certainty of defeat.
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By providing accurate geodetic surface elevation, ICESat-2 has become one of the “gold standards” in Earth-observing satellites and is part of a suite of instruments that enables the US to be world leaders in acquiring critical benchmark information about our planet. @thenasaearth.bsky.social