{"658025":{"#nid":"658025","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Vast amount of water discovered hidden beneath Antarctica","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHidden deep below the ice sheet that covers Antarctica, scientists have discovered a massive amount of water. The groundwater system, found in deep sediments in West Antarctica likely to be the consistency of a wet sponge, reveals an unexplored part of the region and may have implications for how the frozen continent reacts to the climate crisis, according to new research.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;This finding highlights groundwater hydrology as a potentially critical piece in understanding the effect of water flow on Antarctic ice sheet dynamics,\u0026quot; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/chu-dr-wing-winnie\u0022\u003EWinnie Chu\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;wrote in a commentary on the research that was published in \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E. Chu, who conducts her own \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/exploring-reservoir-within-greenland-glacier-and-plumbing-uncertainties-sea-level-rise\u0022\u003Eresearch \u003C\/a\u003Eon how climate change impacts Greenland\u0026nbsp;glaciers,\u0026nbsp;was not involved in the Antarctica study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-05-09 12:57:33","changed_gmt":"2022-05-09 12:57:33","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/weather\/topstories\/vast-amount-of-water-discovered-hidden-beneath-antarctica\/ar-AAWY0ag","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"185774","name":"Winnie Chu"},{"id":"176758","name":"ice sheets"},{"id":"82391","name":"Antarctica"},{"id":"1435","name":"melting"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}