NASA Antarctic Ice News
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory held a press conference to discuss the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its potential contribution to future sea level rise. The new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea.
The briefing participants are:
— Eric Rignot, professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, and glaciologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California;
— Sridhar Anandakrishnan, professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, University Park; and,
— Tom Wagner, cryosphere program scientist with the Earth Science Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
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