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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT170100220
Funding Status
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Funded Activity Summary
Investigating the controls on the extent of tidewater glaciers. This project aims to improve our ability to model tidewater glaciers. The project will conduct studies of two iconic glacial systems in Alaska: Glacier Bay and Columbia Glacier. These glaciers have recently experienced rapid retreat and contributed to sea level rise. In particular, the Grand Pacific Glacier has retreated 100 kilometres up Glacier Bay, the greatest recorded glacier retreat in the last 200 years. The project will use geomorphic mapping, dating and climate reanalysis to better understand the long term behaviour of these glaciers and the drivers of recent retreat. An expected outcome from the project is a better understanding of the long term behaviour of tidewater glaciers and an improvement in our ability to predict sea level rise from them.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2018
End Date: 02-2024
Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships
Funding Amount: $900,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Palaeoclimatology | Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution | Glaciology | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) | Climate Change Models |
