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SUMMARY:Using underwater robots to observe the rapidly melting Pine Island
  Glacier\, Antarctica - Louise Biddle\, University of East Anglia
DTSTART:20131120T130000Z
DTEND:20131120T140000Z
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CONTACT:Marija Zacharova
DESCRIPTION:Pine Island Glacier is the fastest melting glacier in the worl
 d and its\nshelf extends into the Amundsen Sea - the location of several r
 apidly melting glaciers. Recent studies have shown that it is the ocean\, 
 rather than the atmosphere\, that is melting this ice sheet from below. Th
 e water temperature in this area is a couple of degrees above freezing\, a
 nd it is one of the only places around Antarctica where this warm water ca
 n get onto the shelf and all the way up to the ice.\n\nThe University of E
 ast Anglia use an underwater robot called a Seaglider to help collect data
  on this process. Louise Biddle will be presenting background on this area
  of study and also her own research on the ocean processes in the Amundsen
  Sea\, using dissolved dissolved oxygen as a tracer for the meltwater that
  is produced.
LOCATION:Buckingham Room\, Magdalene College
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