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Luna Gsa Fall 2017 Poster.Pptx, Melissa Luna
Luna Gsa Fall 2017 Poster.Pptx, Melissa Luna
Melissa Luna
The Antarctic is important to study to further our understanding of global climate regulation. One of the objectives in Antarctic research is to understand how, where, and why ice sheets lose mass, a critical component of climate change. The Antarctic ice sheet consists of about 26.5 million cubic kilometers of ice, enough to raise global sea levels by an average of 60 meters (Kennicutt, 2014). Although the ice sheets were stable for the last several thousand years, the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing ice at an accelerating pace due to global climate change, attributed to increased atmospheric CO2 levels. …