Nathaniel B. Palmer

Antarctica Dispatch 7: Under Thwaites Glacier

March 6, 2019Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier

The World’s Carolyn Beeler has her latest dispatch from a research trip to Antarctica. Climate change researchers aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer sent a robotic submarine for the first look ever at the seafloor under the massive Thwaites Glacier.

The eastern ice tongue of Thwaites Glacier is shown rising out of deep blue ocean waters.

Antarctica Dispatch 6: First sight of Thwaites — mapping uncharted seafloor

February 28, 2019Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier

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