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Doug Wiens: Investigating Antarctic’s Response to Ice Mass Loss
Wednesday, February 19th: On Wednesday, February 19th, at 5:30 pm, The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologist will host the distinguished, Dr. Douglas A. Wiens Wiens. The event will be hosted in the basement of Pietros (3801 Watson Rd, Saint Louis, MO 63109 United States). Dinner will be included.
Please RSVP by Monday, Feburary 17th, 2025
The cost of this meeting is $5 for students, $15 for members, and $20 for non-members.
Doug Wiens is the Robert S. Brookings Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches a popular undergraduate course on natural disasters. Doug is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and received the Cody Award in Ocean Sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2014, in recognition for his work on the structure of the earth beneath the seafloor.
Antarctica is rapidly losing ice in response to the changing climate. The loss of ice results in rapid uplift of the land surface, which changes ice-ocean interactions and has the potential to affect the rate and distribution of ice mass loss in the future. This presentation will cover our deployment of autonomous seismographs and GPS receivers across Antarctica to image structure and measure the land uplift in response to ice mass loss. This instrumentation is operating successfully despite 5-6 months of darkness each year and temperatures as low as -70°C. The results show rapid landuplift (~ 50 mm/yr) in parts of West Antarctica due to isostatic adjustment from ice mass loss, enhanced by warm, low viscosity uppermost mantle. Ice sheet modeling shows that this rapid uplift will have important effects on the future of the Antarctic ice sheet.
AEG Jahn’s Lecturer – John Kemeny
More Information to come
AEG MU Student Chapter Picnic
More information to come
Location: Rock Bridge Memorial State Park 5901 RT-163 Columbia, MO