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Studying the World's Changing Climate and Polar Environment
Department of Geosciences Assistant Professor Weisen Shen recently shared results forthcoming from his team's successful deployment of a series of seismic stations around the South Pole this past austral summer. Shen and his team of graduate students employed a novel transportation system consisting of arctic trucks; the results are likely to help understand the rate of appearance of climate change impacts, such as ice sheet motion.
Through the support of the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Program (NSF-OPP) season in logistic investment grant, Shen's team spent two months at the South Pole conducting this resesarch; recent results have been publicized in the 2024 Ice Core community meeting. Click here to read more