Climate change
Melting glaciers and their future
23. November 2022
Due to climate change, glaciers and ice-sheets worldwide are shrinking. To be able to predict their future, glacial geologist Bethan Davies is exploring their geological past - their "geomorphological footprint" so to say. During the winter term 22/23, she is Ida Pfeiffer Professor at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy of the University of Vienna.
"Glaciers and ice-sheets are a really iconic and symbolic representation of climate change," Bethan Davies states. She tries to understand their geological past by analysing remote data, sediments – and crawling underneath the ice from time to time.
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