Their research aims to shed light on the forces accelerating the glacier’s retreat and its implications for global sea levels.

What is the Denman Glacier?

Geophysicist Coti Manassero and glaciologist Sarah Thompson are researching the area surrounding the glacier.

They said these lakes provide a unique window into how changes in ocean temperature affect glacier melting.

Australia to analyse data

Over three summers, the deep-field program has collected vast amounts of data and samples, now headed to labs across Australia for analysis.

“Because it is such a big system and a complex system, we really don’t have a good handle on the kind of timescales over which that kind of change could happen. So it’s really important that we find out a lot more about the system to allow us to better predict the changes and the impacts of those changes that we might see.”