Public AstroNight: Melting Ice in a Warming Climate

A public talk by Professor Natalya Gomez from the McGill Space Institute, who is a world expert on ice sheets.

Free and open to all, no knowledge of astronomy needed or expected! The lecture begins at 7pm on May 16 in the Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium! The talk will also be live streamed, and we will try to take some questions from the online audience - the stream will appear on the AstroMcGill Facebook page when it starts.

Abstract: The polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are massive, continental scale sheets of ice kilometers thick. Together they hold enough ice to raise sea levels by over 60 meters, and they will begin to melt as the climate warms presenting a threat to coastal communities around the world. Sea levels will change by different amounts in different places, rising more than on average in some regions and even falling in others. In this talk, Professor Gomez will discuss the response of the polar ice sheets to climate warming and explain the physics that determine where the meltwater will go.

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