Durham University is part of an international project pushing new boundaries to understand how the vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet could respond to climate change. SWAIS2C (Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2°C) will look at how the ice sheet reacted to past warming to see what effect future temperature rises might have.
Analysis from our core description workshop supports the initial observations made in the field – our Antarctic sediment core holds a record of an open marine environment, far closer to…
We’ve just opened the best present ever – our first sediment core, retrieved from under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet last season.