In summer 2017 the Larsen C ice-shelf in Antarctica calved a 6000 km2 iceberg, and the\u00a0Halley research station closed over winter 2017 due to nearby crevasses opening up,\u00a0potentially calving another massive iceberg. When these large volumes of ice drift\u00a0equatorwards they eventually melt and can influence key pathways in the Earth System,\u00a0including changing ocean heat transports and ocean circulation patterns, and disrupt\u00a0biogeochemical cycles. What is poorly constrained is how these changes in the ocean\u00a0feed back to the ice. Understanding this interplay is currently a very active and exciting\u00a0area of research, and the student will join a strong team of scientists at Bangor University\u00a0and the British Antarctic Survey to investigate how future climate change in the Southern\u00a0Ocean will affect the Antarctic ice shelfs. This will be done by analysing existing data from\u00a0the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf and the Southern Ocean and using it in a novel coupled iceocean\u00a0model. The work will lead to the first estimates of oceanic tipping points for an iceshelf\u00a0collapse are, and let us investigate how the flexing of the ice influence the ice sheet\u00a0farther upstream. The project is a collaboration between Bangor University and the British\u00a0Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, and it will engage with ongoing research projects at both\u00a0institutions. The student will spend time at BAS, engage with a wide research community,\u00a0contribute to research outputs, and have the opportunity to join fieldwork at both\u00a0institutes. The project offers unparalleled opportunities for research training and exposure\u00a0to coupled ice-ocean research.<\/p>\n
Applicants should hold a minimum of a UK Honours Degree at 2:1 level or equivalent in a\u00a0numerical subject such as Physical Oceanography, Glaciology, Maths, or Physics.\u00a0Students with degrees in other environmental subjects, along with an MSc in\u00a0oceanography, applied physics, or applied maths are also welcome to apply.<\/p>\n
For further information and informal enquiries, please contact Dr Mattias Green\u00a0(m.green@bangor.ac.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In summer 2017 the Larsen C ice-shelf in Antarctica calved a 6000 km2 iceberg, and the\u00a0Halley research station closed over winter 2017 due to nearby crevasses opening up,\u00a0potentially calving another massive iceberg. When these large volumes of ice drift\u00a0equatorwards they eventually melt and can influence key pathways in the Earth System,\u00a0including changing ocean heat transports… Read More »Ice-ocean interaction: effects of climate change on Antarctic ice-shelf dynamics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":5825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51],"tags":[13,44],"class_list":["post-5824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-51","tag-bangor","tag-case"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/files\/2017\/10\/Mattias-Green-Image-400x400px.jpg?fit=400%2C400","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kFzn-1vW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5826,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions\/5826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}