FEST: 'Modelling Calving Glaciers: Insights from Greenland and the Himalayas'
Friday Earth Sciences Talk by Dr Faezeh Nick & Dr Chris Bez煤
Calving is a crucial part of the global ice mass balance and plays a significant role in future sea-level rise. However, current ice-sheet models struggle to predict calving accurately because they lack a reliable calving law. In this seminar, Faezeh will share insights from his work on understanding glacier calving for both marine-terminating and lake-terminating glaciers. He will explain different observed calving behaviours and how we have tried to model them.
To better understand the calving processes and to validate models that we use, we conduct fieldwork on Greenland鈥檚 marine-terminating glaciers and in the Himalayas, where glaciers terminate in proglacial lakes. Chris will present our recent fieldwork and discuss how we plan to use observations from these sites to improve our understanding of calving behaviour.
With the FEST, we intend to bring the departments of Earth Sciences and Physical Geography together. The aim is to present (mostly) Utrecht-based Earth Sciences in an accessible way, primarily in order to stay familiar with each other鈥檚 work across disciplines. Simultaneously, this provides an excellent platform to help (in particular MSc.) students in their orientation on possible graduation specialisations and future careers.
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