A regional look beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
using airborne radar sounding
Duncan Young
UTIG Research Science Associate V, Ph.D.
SEMINAR OVERIEW:
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is the only marine based ice sheet to have
survived the end of the last Ice Age. It contains the equivalent of six
meters sea level rise, and as such its collapse would have major societal
impact. A major control on the potential decay of this ice sheet are the
properties of the ice-rock interface. This work has motivated an extensive
program of airborne geophysics to examine the bed, including measurements of
gravity and magnetic fields, laser altimetry, and the focus of this talk, radar
sounding through the ice. The