Into the Heart of the Doomsday Glacier
A climate scientist presents field research on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier collapse and its catastrophic implications for global sea level rise.
Date & Time at 6:00 PM EST
Location The Explorers Club New York, US
Organizer The Explorers Club
Why we picked this
Thwaites Glacier holds enough ice to raise sea levels by two feet — and the scientists who've been underneath it have a story to tell that should keep you up at night.
A researcher presents urgent findings from field expeditions to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, sometimes called the “Doomsday Glacier” for the scale of its potential impact on global sea levels. The lecture covers what scientists have learned by drilling through and diving beneath the ice shelf, and what the data says about the timeline of its collapse.
Held at The Explorers Club, a venue with over a century of hosting dispatches from the frontier of scientific exploration. Available both in person and virtually.