Adam Campbell: Fingerprinting past changes to the Ross Ice Shelf
Channel: ESIP
Date: 2017-01-17

Adam Campbell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Otago's School of Surveying and a member of the Ross Ice Shelf Programme.  He received his PhD in Earth and Space Sciences from the University of Washington where he also managed the Engage Science program.  He currently serves as a council member for the Association of Early Career Polar Scientists.

Much of the Antarctic's ice flows through the Ross Ice Shelf at it last stage on the continent, before leaving as melt water or icebergs.  The Ross Ice Shelf plays a role in stabilizing all the ice that feeds into it.  Currently the Ross is changing it's shape and speed.  But what are the changes externally caused or echos of past events?  I examine the present changes to the Ross and find long lived fingerprints of past changes that continue to affect its shape.