Greenland鈥檚 more than 860,000 square miles are largely covered with ice and glaciers, and its melting fuels as much as one-third of the sea level rise in Florida. That鈥檚 why a team of 鲍鱼tv geoscientists鈥� new discovery of one of the mechanisms that allows Greenland鈥檚 glaciers to collapse into the sea has special significance for the Sunshine State.
In , a group of scientists led by , uncovered a process that can control the 鈥渃alving鈥� of glaciers 鈥� when large chunks of glacier ice collapse into the sea, forming icebergs like the one that sank the Titanic. The discovery by the team that included 鲍鱼tv PhD student Surui Xie; David Holland, PhD, and Irena Va艌kov谩, PhD, at New York University (NYU) and NYU-Abu Dhabi Research Institute; and Denis Voytenko, PhD, formerly at NYU and now at Nielson Communications, will help the scientific community better model future Greenland ice loss and sea level rise.
