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News

New! Our paper, led by UW School of Oceanography postdoc Gemma O'Connor, in Nature Geoscience on climate forcing of circumpolar deepwater flow onto the Amundsen Sea continental shelf. With Yoshihiro Nakayama, Kyle Armour, and others.

New! The first-ever seasonal reconstruction of climate over the last millennium, from UW Atmospheric Sciences grad student Zilu Meng, with Greg Hakim and me. In press in Journal of Climate with pre-print available now on ArXiv.

Paper led by Ben Hills (former grad student in UW Earth and Space Sciences) showing that Hercules Dome, Antarctica, is a stable ice divide, confirming it will be a great place to drill. See Journal of Geophysical Research. Sadly, the Hercules Dome project has experienced significant delays, and we are now slated to drill there in 2030 at the earliest. See this article about the project.

Paper in Nature led by Eric Wolff (British Antarctic Survey), showing that the West Antarctic ice sheet (at least partially) collasped during the last interglacial period. This paper shows results from SkyTrain Ice Rise, which has a strong isotope signal matching our predictions from atmospheric modeling (see Marina Dütsch's paper in Journal of Climate).

A film by Kathy Kasic, The Memory of Darkness, light, and Ice is out, and winning awards! This is a film about collaborative research in Greenland in which we are involved. Watch the trailer here.