Source: Marlborough Express / Stuff
Ryan Steadman isn’t dreaming of a white Christmas. He doesn’t have to. In fact, if he doesn’t get one, we’re all in bother.
Steadman is in Antarctica as part of an international team trying to recover critical geological records to help forecast future sea-level rise.
We’ve just opened the best present ever – our first sediment core, retrieved from under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet last season.
Analyses will help to reveal how far the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated in the past — and what it might do in the future.