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Greenland ice cores tell tales of past sea level change with Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Wednesday, October 23, 6:30 p.m. – In person and via live stream
WHAT: The New England Aquarium’s Lowell Lecture Series and the Lorenz Center of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT present the John H. Carlson Lecture featuring Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, a professor of physics of ice, climate, and Earth at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.
Dr. Dahl-Jensen will discuss one of our challenges for the future: adapting to a rising sea level. She studies the Greenland Ice Sheet—the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere—which is reacting to climate change by progressively losing more mass every year. Her research examines the past to provide insights into how the Greenland Ice Sheet will react to a changing climate and to improve future predictions of sea level rise. Dahl-Jensen will discuss the period between glaciations, 130,000 to 115,000 years ago—a key period for understanding our future climate. She will also share new results on the flow of ice sheets from deep ice core drilling in Northeast Greenland.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 23 at 6:30 p.m. All are invited to arrive early to explore exhibits by MIT students and climate scientists in the Simons Theatre lobby. Doors open at 5:30 p.m
WHERE: In person at the New England Aquarium’s Simons Theatre, 1 Central Wharf, Boston. The lecture will also be livestreamed via Zoom.
HOW: The public can register for the free event here.
WHO: Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen is a professor of physics of ice, climate, and Earth at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Her primary research interests include climate records from ice cores and borehole data and using ice flow models to date ice cores. In addition to the history and evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet, she studies continuum mechanical properties of anisotropic ice and ice in the solar system. Her work includes major scientific achievements in leading ice core drilling and subsequent analysis of ice core data in conjunction with past climate and how it affected the Greenland Ice Sheet.
SPECIAL NOTE: Free of charge and open to the public, this lecture is made possible by a generous gift from MIT alumnus John H. Carlson to the Lorenz Center in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, and is presented in partnership with the New England Aquarium and the Lowell Institute.
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