By Guy Paxman and Bethan Davies The Greenland Ice Sheet is a huge mass of ice on the island of Greenland. In places, the ice is more than 3 km thick, and there are more than two thousand trillion tonnes of ice. If all the ice melted, this would be enough to raise global sea …
In this interview, Guy Paxman and Bethan Davies discuss the hidden landscapes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, and why this is important for understanding the polar ice sheet. In this video, Dr Guy Paxman and Dr Bethan Davies discuss the exciting hidden mountains and valleys underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. This landscape is covered by …
Click the image below to access the Hidden Landscapes of Greenland StoryMap Collection The Greenland StoryMap Collection was a collaboration between Guy Paxman, Edmund Lea and Bethan Davies.
Introducing the Hidden Landscapes of Greenland StoryMap Collection Here is a collection of four Greenland StoryMaps covering the landscape beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, launched as a collection in May 2024. They are suitable for UK GCSE to A-level (age ~16 to 18). The StoryMaps are presented alongside supportive material including a video interview, images …
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The world’s glaciers and ice sheets are changing. Observations of glacier velocity (speed of ice flow), thickness, length and area alongside measurements of climate help us to understand this change. We can monitor these changes via remote sensing (using data from sensors mounted remotely, on things like UAVs and satellites), as well as from in …
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By Becky Sanderson, Newcastle University To know how much ice we have in the world, we need to know the bed of the glacier and the thickness of the ice. But how can we peer down through hundreds of metres of ice to know the ice thickness? Using radar, we see water flowing or ponding …
This page was written by Kathryn C. Rose. In this post, Kathryn explains how we can use Geophysical Surveys to investigate the landscape underneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains are thought to represent the birthplace of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet – the largest ice sheet …
