Popular science article by Dr. Oskar Glowacki

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We highly recommend the popular science article by Dr. Oskar Glowacki, physical oceanographer at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and RAW project team member, on what sounds glaciers can make and what techniques scientists are using to record these sounds.

The melting of glaciers and the massive ice caps of Greenland and the Antarctic is responsible for about 60% of the rise in sea level.

The melt rate keeps accelerating, causing widespread concern among scientists and the millions of people inhabiting coastal areas, who – in the coming decades – will no doubt be forced to relocate. In order to reliably predict the fate of glaciers and ice caps, we must keep close tabs on them by continuously monitoring the rate of ice loss, a task which is far from easy, especially in the case of tidewater glaciers.

We highly recommend the popular science article by Dr. Oskar Glowacki, physical oceanographer at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, on what sounds glaciers can make and what techniques scientists are using to record these sounds.

Read more: https://edu-arctic.pl/en/articles/glaciers-are-speaking-to-us-all-we-need-is-to-listen