Public Astro Night - "Melting Ice in a Warming Climate"

Natalya Gomez (McGill University (EPS/MSI))

May 16, 2019 7:00 PM

Location: Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium (3450 University St.)
Public Lecture

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

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.

A free public lecture on the latest exciting topics in astronomy, organized by AstroMcGill. The lecture begins at 7pm on May 16 in the Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium!