Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier” with Brent Minchew
The Nathaniel B. Palmer, an icebreaking research vessel, sails near Thwaites glacier. Image credit: Aleksandra Mazur/University of Gothenburg
Brent Minchew, MIT Class of 1948 Career Development Professor and Chair of the EAPS Program in Geophysics, recently co-founded the Arête Glacier Initiative to fund research investigating the causes of sea level rise and how to prevent it over the coming decades. Through studying the mechanics of glaciers and ice sheets, the initiative hopes to understand how they melt and break up — a major contributor to sea level rise.
Read the full story about Brent’s plans for Arête Glacier, and the ambitious idea of intervening to directly slow ice sheet melt rates, in the March edition of MIT Technology Review.
