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The northeast edge of the Venable Ice Shelf, near Antarctica’s Allison Peninsula. NASA/John Sonntag

June 13, 2018

Short‑term changes in Antarctica’s ice shelves are key to predicting their long‑term fate

Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California, San Diego; Fernando Paolo, California Institute of Technology; Matthew Siegfried, Stanford University, and Susheel Adusumilli, University of California, San Diego

Last summer one of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves calved an iceberg the size of Delaware – but scientists say other less dramatic changes reveal more about how and why Antarctica is changing.

Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf photographed in October 2011 from NASA’s DC-8 research aircraft during an Operation IceBridge flight. Michael Studinger/NASA

March 26, 2015

Shrinking of Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating

Laurence Padman, Earth and Space Research; Fernando Paolo, University of California, San Diego, and Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California, San Diego

Researchers find that ice around Antarctica shrank quickly last decade, raising concerns over this buttress against melting land-based ice and future sea-level rise.

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