Please join us remotely this Thursday (5/21 ) at 2:00 pm for the next Polar Seminar! Our spe aker will be Dr. Twila Moon from the National Sn ow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). She will be presenting a talk entitled "Rapid reconfiguration of the Greenland Ice Sheet under climate change< /strong> ". Please register for the meeting using this Zoom link.

Over the last 30 years, the Greenland Ice Sheet has t ransitioned from a state of near balance to substantial and sustained ice loss. Greenland is now one of the top contributors to global sea l evel rise, and the added freshwater to the ocean is also influenc ing regional ocean properties and circulation and local ecosystems. In this talk, Dr. Twila Moon will explore the now multi-decadal rec ord of rapid ice sheet change, including widespread retreat and more c omplex responses in velocity and dynamics. She’ll discuss the ove rlapping processes that are driving increased melt on the ice sheet su rface and at the ice-ocean interface, with many of those processes fur ther amplifying the ice sheet response to climate. This rapid rec onfiguration of the ice sheet is dramatically changing the Greenland c oastal margin and may serve as an important proxy for considering the character of past and future ice sheet loss. < br />