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Scientist at work: Tracking melt water under the Greenland ice sheet

  • Written by Joel T. Harper, Professor of Geosciences, The University of Montana

During the past decade, I’ve spent nearly a year of my life living on the Greenland ice sheet to study how melt water impacts the movement of the ice.

What happens to the water that finds its way from the melting ice surface to the bottom of the ice sheet is a crucial question for glaciologists like me. Knowing this will help us ascertain how...

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