{"id":1457,"date":"2019-11-15T20:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T20:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2019-11-16T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T13:10:11","slug":"northumbria-scientist-embarks-on-ambitious-mission-to-antarcticas-thwaites-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/northumbria-scientist-embarks-on-ambitious-mission-to-antarcticas-thwaites-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumbria scientist embarks on ambitious mission to Antarctica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Thwaites Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">A Northumbria University researcher is one of almost 100 scientists  and support staff who have travelled to Antarctica this week (15  November 2019) for the most ambitious mission to date for Thwaites  Glacier in West Antarctica. As part of the \u00c2\u00a320 million <a href=\"https:\/\/thwaitesglacier.org\/index.php\/\">International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration<\/a>   (ITGC), researchers from the United States and United Kingdom will  work  in one of the most remote and inhospitable areas on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Thwaites Glacier and why is it so important?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At  74,000 square miles, the Thwaites Glacier covers an area the size of  Florida or Great Britain. It is particularly susceptible to climate and  ocean changes. Over the past 30 years, the amount of ice flowing out of  the region has nearly doubled. Computer models show that over the next  several decades, the glacier may lose ice even more rapidly, as ice  retreat progresses. Already,  ice draining from Thwaites into the Amundsen Sea accounts for about  four percent of global sea level rise. A run-away collapse of the  glacier would lead to a significant increase in sea levels of around  65cm (25 inches) over the coming centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collaboration is  undertaking eight research projects focusing on different aspects of the  glacier and its environment to understand the glacier, the surrounding  ocean system and its future contribution to global sea level. The study  aims to understand how the Glacier is behaving and to establish whether  it is likely to begin to collapse within the next few decades or within  centuries. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northumbria.ac.uk\/about-us\/news-events\/news\/ambitious-mission-to-antarcticas-thwaites-glacier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Northumbria University researcher is one of almost 100 scientists and support staff who have travelled to Antarctica this week (15 November 2019) for the most ambitious mission to date for Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. As part of the \u00c2\u00a320 million International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), researchers from the United States and United Kingdom &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/northumbria-scientist-embarks-on-ambitious-mission-to-antarcticas-thwaites-glacier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northumbria scientist embarks on ambitious mission to Antarctica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Thwaites Glacier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}