Greenland: glaciers, ice, and physics on the world’s largest island

Speaker: Dr Laurence Dyke, University of Plymouth 

Greenland is the world's largest island, and the northernmost land on the planet. It is a wild, rugged, and beautiful island, and a glacial paradise; 80% inundated in ice up to 3 km thick. Glaciers, and their constituent ice exhibit a range of weird behaviour, driven by the unusual properties of water, and the extreme environments glaciers inhabit.

This talk introduces Greenland and the basics of glaciology, and then examines some of the strange physics of ice and glaciers. It then focusses on the extreme behaviour of Greenlandic glaciers and what this means for the future of ice on Earth

About the Speaker

More information on the speaker is available on the University of Plymouth website.

Part of the IOP London and South East (LSE) region Physics Talk Series.

The lecture is free and open to all but registration is required. Please register via the Book Now button.

The venue can be found on the A340 Basingstoke to Newbury Road, just before the Heath End Roundabout at Tadley.

The correct gate is signposted West Gate or AWE Staff + Deliveries.

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