{"666416":{"#nid":"666416","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Many Antarctic glaciers are hemorrhaging ice. This one is healing its cracks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEven as some parts of West Antarctica rapidly melt, raising sea level, large swaths of the ice remain stable for the time being. Scientists have now explored one of those stable spots \u2014 an isolated nook where the ocean meets the ice.\u0026nbsp;This environment is \u201creally at the edge\u201d between melting and freezing, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/justin-lawrence\u0022\u003EJustin Lawrence\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The delicate balance between these two processes is shaping the ice into those strange textures, and the result,\u0026nbsp;at Kamb Ice Stream, is that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-023-01129-y\u0022\u003Emassive cracks in the underside of the ice appear to be freezing back together\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\/people\/benjamin-hurwitz\u0022\u003EBen\u0026nbsp;Hurwitz\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EOcean Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Anthony-Spears\u0022\u003EAnthony Spears\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, also contributed to\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;study, published\u0026nbsp;in \u003Cem\u003ENature Geoscience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E(The study was also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astrobiology.com\/2023\/03\/away-team-tech-icefin-diving-droid-provides-an-unprecedented-view-below-the-antarctic-ice-shelf.html\u0022\u003EAstrobiology.com\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.azorobotics.com\/News.aspx?newsID=13676\u0022\u003EAZO Robotics\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eos.org\/articles\/icefin-investigates-a-glacial-underbelly\u0022\u003EEos\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/indiaeducationdiary.in\/robot-developed-shows-unprecedented-views-below-antarctic-ice-shelf\/\u0022\u003EIndia Education Daily\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEven as some parts of West Antarctica rapidly melt, raising sea level, large swaths of the ice remain stable for the time being. Scientists have now explored one of those stable spots \u2014 an isolated nook where the ocean meets the ice.\u0026nbsp;This environment is \u201creally at the edge\u201d between melting and freezing, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/justin-lawrence\u0022\u003EJustin Lawrence\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The delicate balance between these two processes is shaping the ice into those strange textures, and the result,\u0026nbsp;at Kamb Ice Stream, is that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-023-01129-y\u0022\u003Emassive cracks in the underside of the ice appear to be freezing back together\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\/people\/benjamin-hurwitz\u0022\u003EBen\u0026nbsp;Hurwitz\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EOcean Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Anthony-Spears\u0022\u003EAnthony Spears\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, also contributed to\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;study, published\u0026nbsp;in \u003Cem\u003ENature Geoscience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E(The study was also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astrobiology.com\/2023\/03\/away-team-tech-icefin-diving-droid-provides-an-unprecedented-view-below-the-antarctic-ice-shelf.html\u0022\u003EAstrobiology.com\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.azorobotics.com\/News.aspx?newsID=13676\u0022\u003EAZO Robotics\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eos.org\/articles\/icefin-investigates-a-glacial-underbelly\u0022\u003EEos\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/indiaeducationdiary.in\/robot-developed-shows-unprecedented-views-below-antarctic-ice-shelf\/\u0022\u003EIndia Education Daily\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-03-03 19:41:36","changed_gmt":"2023-03-22 15:08:41","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Science News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/antarctic-glaciers-ice-healing","dateline":{"date":"2023-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","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":"172469","name":"ocean science and engineering"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"174094","name":"Justin Lawrence"},{"id":"178298","name":"Ben Hurwitz"},{"id":"192273","name":"Anthony Spears"},{"id":"181645","name":"Thwaites Glacier"},{"id":"82391","name":"Antarctica"},{"id":"181700","name":"glacial melting"}],"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":""}}}