Documentary of Research on The Pine Island Glacier and Lecture
by Dr. Robert BindschadlerPosted: January 10, 2012 This post
contains two great videos. The first is called ”The Pine Island
Glacier Research Expedition” and is a brilliant documentary in
four short parts showing some of the challenges involved in
doing science on the ground in Antarctica. It includes amazing
footage from the ice-shelf of the Pine Island Glacier (“PIG”),
the most active glacier in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
(“WAIS”). The Pine Island Glacier has been called the “weak
underbelly of the west antarctic ice sheet”, because it could be
a potential the trigger for a collapse of the WAIS, eventually
leading to several meters of sea level rise. (See this Real
Climate post by Mauri Pelto for some background of the PIG,
including some scientific papers.) The documentary portraits the
first season of the multi-year project “Ocean-Ice Interaction in
the Amundsen Sea: the Keystone to Ice-Sheet Stability” (love
their logo below) It focuses on