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Video of the Week: “Potential Cause of Faster and Higher Sea Level Rise from Antarctica”

Dr. Alexander Bradley is an ice-ocean modeler at the British Antarctic Survey, and visiting research fellow at Kings College London. His research focuses on understanding how and why ice sheets change; past and future sea level rise; and the implications of a changing cryosphere on societies around the world. This August 1 presentation summarized his group’s recently published research, which found a new mechanism in Antarctic submarine melting that could account for higher sea-level-rise observed during past warm periods similar to today, as well as potentially in future.

Link to the original Nature Geoscience paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01465-7
British Antarctic Survey Presser: https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/new-tipping-point-discovered-beneath-the-antarctic-ice-sheet/

Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRlEoS7X4q8

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