BRENT: Climate change’s effects have been far-reaching, going so far as to cause Greenland’s ice sheet to begin melting, said Asa Rennermalm, an associate professor in the Department of Geography.
The Greenland ice sheet is the second largest body of glacial ice in the world, with an area of 1.71 million square kilometers and a volume of 2.85 million cubic kilometers, according to the Arctic Report Card written by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The research project is based on how climate change in the Arctic relates to the Greenland ice sheet, she said.
“Greenland has been a part of my interest since I was an (undergraduate, and) I went to Greenland and did a research project there” she said.
Although Greenland is an isolated area with a small populace, its ice sheet’s activity can have a global impact, she said. Part of the global sea level rising can be attributed to this sheet melting.
Rennermalm said she advertised with the Aresty Research Center to look for students who were interested in researching more about this sheet’s impact.
Vincent Quinton, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said he took Rennermalm’s Spatial Data Analysis class, where Greenland was an important topic. With the Aresty project, he analyzes rates of melting in Greenland.
“My project is generally about the trend of Greenland melting going up,” he said.
As the rate of melting increases, sediment content in the water is affected, he said. One focus of the project is determining where meltwater gathers and where sediment is picked up.
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