The State of the Antarctic Ice Sheets Across the Plio-Pleistocene Transition

Montag 11.05.2026, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Berlin

5-1.214 - PAZIFIK / PACIFIC- Rechte Seite - Großer, unterteilbarer Konferenzraum (GEOMAR - Standort Ostufer / GEOMAR - East Shore)

Speaker: Prof. Sidney R. Hemming, Columbia University (USA)

Hybrid  -  online via 

https://geomar.webex.com/geomar-en/j.php?MTID=m6f187b689fccd196c05d249d28f6d0d8

Abstract:
 A societal concern of global warming is that excess loss of ice from polar ice sheets would lead to flooding of global coastline communities. The accumulated marine geological and geophysical evidence along with sparse exposures around Antarctica have allowed scientists to piece together a history of glaciation, but the details of how the ice sheets have changed through time around Antarctic remain incompletely understood. This presentation will be centered on the discoveries across the Plio-Pleistocene transition, the interval between 3.3 and 1.8 Ma, from IODP Expedition 382 in Iceberg Alley.