Question: Based on their research conclusions, DeConto and Pollard suggested that rather than anticipating a rise of three feet in sea level by the close of this century, an elevation of up to six feet should be considered as increasingly probable.

 Rising Sea Levels: New Projections Based on Recent Studies

Recent studies led by Robert M. DeConto and David Pollard suggest revised projections regarding sea level rise attributed to climate change. Their findings indicate that instead of anticipating just a three-foot increase in ocean levels by the end of the twenty-first century, we should now consider a significantly higher estimate—six feet—to be much likelier. These alarming figures highlight the urgent need for coastal communities around the world to prepare for severe impacts resulting from accelerated glacial melts predominantly occurring within Greenland and Antarctica.

The study authors emphasize how critical feedback mechanisms involving hydrofracturing and cliff failure contribute substantially to ice sheet instability under warmer conditions. Hydrofracturing refers specifically to cracks forming when liquid water accumulates underneath glaciers during summer months; meanwhile, cliff failure involves massive sections breaking off into oceans once they reach tipping points beyond recovery. Both phenomena exacerbate mass losses experienced by major ice sheets covering vast territories spanning thousands upon thousands square kilometers each.

DeConto and Pollard employed advanced modeling techniques incorporating these newly recognized dynamics while assessing future scenarios based on varying degrees of carbon emission trajectories globally. They conclude that even moderate reductions might still lead us down paths fraught with perilous consequences unless bolder actions take precedence immediately moving forward. Such drastic measures could potentially save countless lives alongside invaluable ecosystems threatened by encroaching waters if implemented swiftly enough before irreversible damage ensues irreparably compromising planetary health long term.

These revelations underscore growing concerns surrounding anthropogenic influences contributing disproportionately towards destabilizing fragile environments already grappling with inherent vulnerabilities exacerbated exponentially through continued exploitation without regard shown thus far towards sustainability principles guiding responsible stewardship practices going forth henceforth hereinafter hereinafter heretofore hitherto thereafter afterwards subsequently thenceforward therefrom whenceforsooth whereby wherewithal whereas nonetheless notwithstanding nevertheless albeit moreover besides furthermore likewise similarly consequently therefore accordingly hereby wherein whereby otherwise except rather conversely contrariwise notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding

Depth sounding refers to the act of measuring depth . It is often referred to simply as sounding . Data taken from soundings are used in bathymetry to make maps of the floor of a body of water , and were traditionally shown on nautical charts in fathoms and feet . The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) , the agency responsible for bathymetric data in the United States , still uses fathoms and feet on nautical charts . In other countries , the International System of Units ( metres ) has become the standard for measuring depth .

Dibble Iceberg Tongue is an iceberg tongue at the seaward end of Dibble Glacier Tongue . The names Dibble Glacier and Dibble Glacier Tongue were applied by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) in 1955 , concurrent with G.D. Blodgett 's delineation of the features from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump ( 1946 -- 47 ) . The offshore segment of these two related features was photographed by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956 and 1959 , and the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia subsequently recommended that it be named Dibble Iceberg Tongue . US-ACAN has approved the latter name only for the portion lying seaward of Dibble Glacier Tongue .

Reclus Peninsula is a 7 mi peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica , enclosing Charlotte Bay to its east . It was first charted in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache , who named its northern extremity `` Cap Reclus '' for the French geographer and author Elisee Reclus ( 1830 -- 1905 ) . The UK-APC extended the name Reclus to the entire peninsula in 1960 .   The peninsula 's highest point , at 385 m above sea level , is in the Jacques Peaks .   Category : Peninsulas of Graham Land  Category : Danco Coast

The De Long Mountains are a mountain range in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska . The range is located at the west end of the Brooks Range and extends west from Uivaksak Creek and the head of the Kuna River . They were named in 1886 after the Arctic explorer George Washington DeLong ( 1844 -- 1881 ) .   The highest point is Black Mountain at 5020 ft.

Deer Mountain is a 3001 ft mountain peak located in the Tongass National Forest in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough , Alaska , which dominates the skyline behind downtown Ketchikan . The Deer Mountain National Recreation Trail provides a strenuous hiking route to the summit , passing through temperate rainforests , muskeg and alpine meadows as it gains 2600 ft of elevation over 2.75 mi from the trailhead in Ketchikan to the peak .

David L Peterson ( born 1954 ) is a research biologist with the United States Forest Service and affiliate professor at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences , at the University of Washington . He is also a co-founder and lead scientist for the Western Mountain Initiative , a consortium of researchers known world-wide for their work on the effects of climate change on mountain ecosystems .

Rancho Point is a conspicuous rock headland , 170 m , marking the east extremity of Deception Island , in the South Shetland Islands . It rises from the sea to become a large rock which , because of its shape , has received the name . The name was proposed by the commander of the Argentine ship Granville in the year 1947 through having observed , by chance , that the feature resembles a hut with a double-pitched roof .   Category : Headlands of the South Shetland Islands  Category : Geography of Deception Island

Kondolov Peak ( Кондолов връх , ` Kondolov Vrah ' \ ` Kon-do-lov ` vr & h \ ) is the mostly ice-covered peak of elevation 900 m in Solvay Mountains on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago , Antarctica . It has steep and partly ice-free southwest and northwest slopes , and surmounts Jenner Glacier to the southeast , Duperré Bay to the southwest and Dimkov Glacier to the west-northwest .   The peak is named after Georgi Kondolov ( 1858-1903 ) , a leader of the Bulgarian liberation movement in Thrace and Macedonia .

Deep history is a term for the distant past of the human species , `` stretching back 50,000 , 500,000 , even 2.6 million years to the earliest humans '' . As an intellectual discipline , deep history encourages scholars in anthropology , archaeology , primatology , genetics and linguistics to work together to write a common narrative about the beginnings of humans , and to redress what they see as an imbalance among historians , who mostly concentrate on more recent periods . Deep history forms the earlier part of Big History , and looks at the portion of deep time when humans existed , going further back than prehistory , mainly based on archaeology , usually ventures , and using a wider range of approaches .   Proponents of deep history argue for a definition of history that rests not upon the invention of writing , but upon the evolution of anatomically modern humans . According to Daniel Lord Smail , perhaps the most prominent advocate of deep history , the concept of prehistory is recast as an arbitrary boundary that limits the longue durée perspective of historians , and which rests upon assumptions that history follows a teleological path beginning with the origins of civilization in Ancient Mesopotamia . For example , Smail suggests that advances in disciplines such as neurobiology and neurophysiology and genetics mean that there are more possibilities for understanding the distant past , and offer opportunities to explain how events such as biological evolution , global environmental change , and patterns of the spread of disease have affected humanity today . Proponents of deep history generally do not acknowledge what they claim to be the traditional barrier between conventional history , generally based on written documentation such as ancient scrolls or hieroglyphs on pyramids , and unwritten prehistory , based on archaeology , in the human past .   A review of Smail 's book by Steven Mithen , professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading , is sympathethic to some parts of his thesis , but says `` Smail may not be as closely acquainted with the ongoing debates in prehistoric archaeology as he might be '' , and on Smail 's critical description of historians : `` I have to take Smail 's word for it that such historians still exist , as after more than a century of prehistoric archaeology they would be an astonishing throwback to another age '' .

David Evans is an American professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University . He works on quantitative reconstruction of supercontinents . He is involved in the Snowball Earth theory of Precambrian ice ages by demonstrating that the magnetic latitudes of ancient ice deposits were tropical .


Question: Although acknowledging the rudimentary nature of their simulation, Pollard and DeConto's findings have galvanized the scientific fraternity, triggering an urgent response across the board.

 Climate Model Revolution: Urgency Among Scientists
Pollard and DeConto acknowledge limitations within their groundbreaking climate model; yet, its findings have galvanized the broader scientific community into urgent action. Their research highlights alarming projections regarding ice sheet stability under rising temperatures, prompting widespread reassessment among experts globally.
Climate studies represent a complex interdisciplinary field combining insights from atmospheric dynamics, oceanography, geology, meteorology, ecology, and paleoclimatology. These diverse areas collectively aim to understand past climates, monitor current trends, and forecast future changes accurately. Modern climate models incorporate vast datasets spanning satellite imagery, ground-based measurements, historical records, and proxy indicators derived from ice cores, tree rings, corals, etc., enabling comprehensive simulations across various temporal scales.
Historically, early civilizations observed seasonal cycles, weather phenomena, celestial movements, leading to rudimentary forms of astronomical calendars aiding agricultural planning. Ancient Greek philosophers proposed theories explaining terrestrial features based upon elemental composition (earth-air-fire-water). During Europe’s Renaissance era, scholars revived interest in empirical investigation techniques fostering advancements in optics, mechanics, anatomy, botany, zoology – laying groundwork for subsequent enlightenment thinkers emphasizing rational inquiry methods beyond mere speculation.
By late-20th-century standards, “science” connoted rigorous adherence to standardized procedures ensuring reproducibility, objectivity, peer review scrutiny prior publication dissemination. Key milestones include establishment prestigious academies (e.g., Royal Society London), development periodic table elements Dmitri Mendeleev, formulation quantum theory Niels Bohr Werner Heisenberg Erwin Schrödinger Paul Dirac et alia, elucidation DNA structure James Watson Francis Crick Rosalind Franklin Maurice Wilkins, discovery cosmic microwave background radiation Arno Penzias Robert Wilson confirming Big Bang cosmological hypothesis Georges Lemaître Fred Hoyle Martin Rees John Barrow Stephen Hawking Roger Penrose others.
Throughout history, pivotal discoveries catalyzed paradigm shifts challenging prevailing dogmas encouraging novel hypotheses experimentation validating refuting propositions iteratively refining collective understanding reality. Today's multidisciplinary collaborations leverage cutting-edge technologies facilitating cross-discipline synergy propelling frontiers exploration ever outward. Simultaneously, public engagement initiatives strive demystify scientific endeavors foster informed citizenry capable discerning fact fiction navigating misinformation prevalent digital age discourse platforms ubiquitously accessible via internet connectivity devices ubiquitous presence everyday life experiences.

The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based , all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth , posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online . The project describes itself as `` an organized sampling of the world '' .

The Dean Nunataks are a pair of nunataks lying about 6 mi east-northeast of Mount Moses in the Hudson Mountains . They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos , 1960 -- 66 , and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for William S. Dean of Pleasanton , Texas , who served as ham radio contact in the U.S. for the Ellsworth Land Survey party of 1968 -- 69 , and for other United States Antarctic Research Program field parties over a three-year period .

In rhetoric , a rhetorical device or resource of language is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective , using sentences designed to encourage or provoke a rational argument from an emotional display of a given perspective or action . Rhetorical devices can be used to evoke an emotional response in the audience , but that is not their primary purpose .

Deception Glacier is a glacier between the Warren Range and the Boomerang Range , flowing south into upper Mulock Glacier . It was so named by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ( 1956 -- 58 ) because it appears to lead directly into Skelton Neve but instead drains southward .

Deaf President Now ( DPN ) was a student protest in March 1988 at Gallaudet University , Washington , D.C. . The university , established by an act of Congress in 1864 to serve the Deaf , had never once been led by a Deaf president since its origination . The protest began on March 6 , 1988 , when the Board of Trustees announced its decision to appoint a hearing person over other highly qualified Deaf candidates as its seventh president .   Gallaudet students , backed by a number of alumni , staff , and faculty , shut down the campus . Protesters barricaded gates , burned effigies , and gave interviews to the press demanding four specific concessions from the Board . The protest ended on March 13 , 1988 , after all four demands were met including the appointment of I. King Jordan , a deaf person , as university president .

Defant Glacier is a glacier 2 nmi wide at its mouth , which flows east-southeast to the west side of Violante Inlet , on the east coast of Palmer Land . It was discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by the United States Antarctic Service ; during 1947 the glacier was photographed from the air by members of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , who in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ) charted it from the ground . It was named by the FIDS for Albert Defant , an Austrian meteorologist and oceanographer who was Professor of Oceanography at the `` Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität '' ( later Humboldt University ) and also Director of the `` Institut and Museum für Meereskunde '' ( Institute and Museum of Marine Science ) in Berlin , Germany , from 1926 to 1945 .

Dead on arrival ( DOA ) , also dead in the field and brought in dead ( BID ) , is a term used to indicate that a patient was found to be already clinically dead upon the arrival of professional medical assistance , often in the form of first responders such as emergency medical technicians , paramedics , or police .   In some jurisdictions , first responders must consult verbally with a physician before officially pronouncing a patient deceased , but once cardiopulmonary resuscitation is initiated , it must be continued until a physician can pronounce the patient dead .   DOA is also frequently used as slang to indicate a new item that was received broken , or that an idea or concept is a nonstarter . In this case , the acronym may stand for `` Defective on Arrival '' instead .

Richard Irving `` Dick '' Walcott ( born 1933 ) is a New Zealand geologist known for his work on plate tectonics .   Walcott studied at Victoria University College , graduating with a BSc in 1962 . He then completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 1965 and was awarded a DSc by thesis from the same institution in 1981 . In 1966 he took up a postdoctoral research position at the University of British Columbia and the following year began working at the gravity division of Energy , Mines and Resources Canada . He returned to New Zealand in 1975 , became professor of geology at Victoria in 1983 , retired in 1999 , and was granted the title of emeritus professor .   He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1982 , and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991 . In 1993 he won the Royal Society of New Zealand 's Hector Medal , and in 1999 he was awarded the Charles A. Whitten Medal by the American Geophysical Union .   The Walcott Névé in the Ross Dependency was named for Walcott by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition in 1961 -- 62 , of which he was the leader .

Debriefing is a process of :  receiving an explanation ,  receiving information and situation-based reminders of context ,  reporting of measures of performance , and/or opportunities to further investigate the results of a study , investigation , or assessment of performance after participation in an immersive activity is complete .   Debriefings are most effective when conducted interactively between the participants of the immersive activity and the assessment or observation personnel . Self-facilitated After Action Reviews ( AAR ) or debriefings are common in small unit and crew activities , and in a training context are shown to improve Knowledge , Skills , and Abilities ( KSAs ) significantly when conducted formally using pre-defined measures of performance derived from front-end analysis . Debriefing organization can be based on linear or non-linear ( or a combination of both ) organization of markers used for recall . Typically the structure will use : Temporal , Spatial , Objective , and/or Performance derived markers to bring focus to a specific activity .

Ragotzkie Glacier is a glacier in the Britannia Range , about 10 nautical miles ( 18 km ) long , flowing northward along the west side of Mount Aldrich and coalescing with other north-flowing glaciers which enter the Hatherton Glacier to the southwest of Junction Spur . Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for Robert A. Ragotzkie , project director for United States Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) studies of lakes in the ice-free valleys . He made personal studies in Victoria Land in the 1962-63 season .   Ragotzkie Icefall is an icefall 2.5 nautical miles ( 4.6 km ) wide in the E-central part of Ragotzkie Glacier , Britannia Range . The icefall is a significant distributary of Ragotzkie ice to Alley Glacier , which occupies the valley to the east . Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) in association with Ragotzkie Glacier .   Category : Glaciers of Oates Land


Question: Although acknowledging the rudimentary nature of their simulation, Pollard and DeConto's findings have galvanized the scientific fraternity, triggering an urgent response across the board.

 Climate Models: Evolution and Urgency in Research Community

Pollard and DeConto acknowledge that their climate models remain relatively simplistic compared to real-world complexities; nonetheless, their findings have galvanized the scientific realm into urgent action. These researchers' work highlights alarming projections regarding Antarctic ice sheet dynamics under rising temperatures, prompting widespread reassessment among experts globally. Their simulations suggest accelerated sea-level rise scenarios beyond previous estimations, emphasizing the critical need for refined methodologies and collaborative investigation within the academic sphere.

Climate modeling serves as a pivotal tool in understanding planetary changes, akin to experimental design in traditional sciences. Just as meticulous experimentation validates theories through observable outcomes, advanced computational analyses offer insights into future climates based on historical trends and theoretical frameworks. However, unlike classic laboratory settings where variables can be precisely manipulated, earth system models grapple with inherent uncertainties stemming from vast spatial scales and intricate feedback mechanisms intrinsic to atmospheric-ocean interactions.

In response to emerging challenges posed by Pollard-DeConto’s research, interdisciplinary teams now prioritize developing more sophisticated algorithms capable of capturing nuanced regional responses amidst global warming. This collective endeavor embodies the essence of iterative scientific progress – refining initial assumptions via rigorous scrutiny until robust conclusions emerge. Yet, despite advancements, consensus remains elusive concerning precise tipping points triggering irreversible shifts across ecosystems.

As humanity confronts escalating ecological crises exacerbated by anthropogenic influences, the imperative for accurate predictive capabilities grows ever stronger. Analogous to medical emergencies necessitating immediate intervention without definitive diagnoses, current climate predicaments demand proactive strategies informed by probabilistic forecasts. Herein lies both the promise and peril encapsulated within contemporary geoscience paradigms: armed with increasingly potent analytical tools yet perpetually aware of lingering unknowns lurking behind each breakthrough revelation.

Throughout history, scientific communities have rallied around groundbreaking revelations, propelling innovation forward amid uncertainty. Today, inspired by Pollard & DeConto's pioneering contributions, countless minds converge upon Antarctica's frozen frontier seeking answers vital to mankind's survival blueprint. Together, they embody the quintessential spirit of exploration - unearthing mysteries shrouded deep within Earth's past whilst charting uncertain paths ahead guided solely by unwavering dedication towards unraveling Nature's grandest enigma.

Thus emerges a poignant narrative intertwining intellectual curiosity with societal responsibility, wherein cutting-edge discoveries simultaneously illuminate darkened corridors of academia and ignite fierce debates spanning political arenas far removed from ivory towers’ serene confines. Indeed, never before has the quest for truth assumed such paramount significance, beckoning scholars young and old alike onto hallowed grounds where tomorrow's destinies shall be forged

Debris is rubble , wreckage , ruins , litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash , scattered remains of something destroyed , etc. .   Debris may also refer to :   Road debris  Glacial debris  Ice rafted debris  Marine debris  Space debris  Woody debris ( disambiguation )  Demolition waste  Foreign object debris  Behind-armor debris  Roger De Bris , fictional character who first appeared in Mel Brooks ' 1968 movie , The Producers , played by Christopher Hewett  Debris ( play ) , a 2001 play by Dennis Kelley

The reconstructive ladder is a term coined by reconstructive plastic surgeons to describe levels of increasingly complex management of wounds . The surgeon should start on the lowest rung and move up until a suitable technique is arrived at .

Landen Ridge is a narrow rock ridge at the east end of Cole Peninsula in Graham Land , Antarctica . During December 1947 it was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition ( RARE ) under Finn Ronne . It was named by Ronne for David Landen of the United States Geological Survey , who assisted in planning the RARE photographic program and in correlating photographs after the expedition returned .

David James Purslove Barker CBE ( 29 June 1938 -- 27 August 2013 ) was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that foetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body 's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life .   He was born in London the son of Hugh Barker , an engineer , and Joye , a concert cellist . At Oundle school , he developed an interest in Natural History and was given special access to the biology classrooms to study his finds . The Natural History Museum later asked him to mount an expedition to collect plant specimens from the Icelandic offshore island of Grimsey .   He studied medicine at Guy 's Hospital , London , but maintained his interest in Natural History , and had his first paper published in Nature in 1961 . After qualifying in 1962 , he became a research fellow in the department of social medicine at Birmingham University . In 1969 , with a grant from the Medical Research Council , Barker moved with his family to Uganda , to research Mycobacterium ulcerans infection ( `` Buruli ulcer '' ) , demonstrating that it was caused , not by mosquitos , but by wounds caused by the razor-sharp reeds growing near the River Nile .   He returned to England and in 1979 was appointed professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Southampton medical school , and in 1984 director of the Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit , now the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit . There he made the observations on the geographical relationship between neonatal and post-neonatal mortality and heart disease . He won the GlaxoSmithKline Prize in 1994 for this work .   Barker was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998 and was appointed a CBE in 2006 .   He married twice ; firstly to Angela , with whom he had three sons and two daughters , and secondly to Jan. .

Richard Burt Melrose ( 1949 , Australia ) is an Australian mathematician , who works on geometric analysis , partial differential equations , and differential geometry .   Melrose received in 1974 his Ph.D. from Cambridge University under F. Gerard Friedlander with thesis Initial and Initial Boundary Value Problems . He then became a research fellow at St John 's College , Cambridge . In 1977 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study . Since 1976 he has been a professor at MIT , where since 2006 he has been the Simons Professor of Mathematics . From 1999 to 2002 he was the chair of the committee for pure mathematics at MIT .   In 1984 Melrose received the Bôcher Memorial Prize for his work on scattering theory . Since 1986 he has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . For the academic year 1992 -- 1993 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He was in 1978 an invited speaker ( Singularities of solutions of boundary value problems ) at the ICM in Helsinki and in 1990 a plenary speaker ( Pseudodifferential operators , corners and singular limits ) at the ICM in Kyoto .

Laurie A. Rudman is a social psychology feminist professor as well as the Director of the Rutgers University Social Cognition Laboratory who has contributed a great deal of research to studies on implicit and explicit attitudes and stereotypes , stereotype maintenance processes , and the media 's effects on attitudes , stereotypes , and behavior on the Feminism movement . She was awarded the 1994 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize ( with Eugene Borgida ) for her research examining the effects of sexist advertising on men 's behavior toward female job applicants .

A deck is a permanent covering over a compartment or a hull of a ship . On a boat or ship , the primary or upper deck is the horizontal structure that forms the `` roof '' of the hull , strengthening it and serving as the primary working surface . Vessels often have more than one level both within the hull and in the superstructure above the primary deck , similar to the floors of a multi-story building , that are also referred to as decks , as are certain compartments and decks built over specific areas of the superstructure . Decks for some purposes have specific names .

The Deese -- Roediger -- McDermott ( DRM ) paradigm is a procedure in cognitive psychology used to study false memory in humans . The procedure was pioneered by James Deese in 1959 , but it was not until Henry L. Roediger III and Kathleen McDermott extended the line of research in 1995 that the paradigm became popular . The procedure typically involves the oral presentation of a list of related words ( e.g. bed , rest , awake , tired , dream , wake , snooze , blanket , doze , slumber , snore , nap , peace , yawn , drowsy ) and then requires the subject to remember as many words from the list as possible . Typical results show that subjects recall a related but nonpresented word ( e.g. sleep ) , known as a ` lure ' , with the same frequency as other presented words . When subjects are asked about their experience after the test , about half of all participants report that they are sure that they remember hearing the nonpresented word , indicating a false memory -- memory for an event that never occurred .   The simplicity of the paradigm and the ease with which DRM studies can be conducted have helped the DRM paradigm become popular among human memory researchers , as well as researchers from other fields .

Deadmond Glacier is a glacier about 6 nmi long , flowing from the east side of Evans Peninsula on Thurston Island into Cadwalader Inlet . It was discovered by the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960 , and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander Robert B. Deadmond , executive officer of the USS Burton Island , forming part of this expedition .

Deception Point is a 2001 techno-thriller novel by Dan Brown . The plot concerns a meteorite found within the Arctic Circle that may provide proof of extraterrestrial life , and attempts by the antagonists to prevent the evidence against it from becoming public .


Question: Researchers once believed it would require thousands of years for glaciers to significantly react to alterations in climate conditions.

 Understanding Ice Sheet Dynamics Amidst Climate Change
Once believed to evolve glacially across thousands of years when reacting to shifts in climate conditions, ice sheet dynamics now reveal more rapid responses than initially thought. Earlier scientific perspectives held that vast expanses of ice covering Greenland and Antarctica would only gradually adjust to changes in atmospheric temperatures and sea levels. However, recent research indicates accelerated reactions within decades rather than centuries or longer periods. These findings underscore the urgency of addressing current climate trends since they suggest quicker impacts on coastal regions through rising seas linked directly to human-driven global heating phenomena. Continued monitoring and analysis will refine predictions about how swiftly ice masses might retreat under varying degrees of warming scenarios proposed by international bodies aiming to curb carbon dioxide outputs globally.

The rationale behind crafting this new passage involves maintaining comparable sentence structures while shifting focus onto another aspect related to climate science—the behavior of large ice formations subject to contemporary warming effects. By doing so, we preserve alignment with the original statement concerning evolving expert views but apply those insights specifically towards understanding altered timescales governing ice sheet stability amidst ongoing planetary heat increases. Additionally, both texts emphasize reliance upon empirical evidence gathered via systematic investigation methods employed throughout relevant academic communities engaged in studying environmental issues surrounding greenhouse gases accumulation consequences.

Richard C. J. Somerville ( born 30 May 1941 ) is a climate scientist who is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography , University of California , San Diego , USA , where he has been a professor since 1979 . Somerville also sits on the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , where he is involved in the annual deliberations regarding the movement of the Bulletin 's famed Doomsday Clock .

Richard H. Thaler ( born September 12 , 1945 ) is an American economist and the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business .   He is perhaps best known as a theorist in behavioral finance , and for his collaboration with Daniel Kahneman and others in further defining that field .

Raymond S. `` Ray '' Bradley is a climatologist and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , where he is also research director of the Climate System Research Center . Bradley 's work indicates that the warming of Earth 's climate system in the twentieth century is inexplicable via natural mechanisms .

Lancing Glacier is a glacier 3 nmi long , flowing south from Mount Corneliussen and Smillie Peak to Newark Bay on the south side of South Georgia . It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951 -- 57 , and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Lancing ( formerly Flackwell ) , built in 1898 , and converted to a whale factory ship in 1923 . It was the first factory ship to be fitted with a slipway .

Ramorino Glacier is the 8.3 km long glacier situated northwest of upper Crosswell Glacier and southeast of Cervellati Glacier on the east slope of Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains , Antarctica . It flows northeastwards between Epperly Ridge and Shinn Ridge , and enters Crosswell Glacier northwest of Mount Segers . The feature was named by US-ACAN in 2006 after Maria Chiara Ramorino , manager of the Italian team that compiled and promulgated the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , 1998-2006 .

Laki or Lakagígar ( Craters of Laki ) is a volcanic fissure in the south of Iceland , not far from the canyon of Eldgjá and the small village of Kirkjubæjarklaustur . Lakagígar is the correct name , as Laki mountain itself did not erupt , as fissures opened up on each side of it . Lakagígar is part of a volcanic system centered on the volcano Grímsvötn and including the volcano Thordarhyrna . It lies between the glaciers of Mýrdalsjökull and Vatnajökull , in an area of fissures that run in a southwest to northeast direction .   The system erupted violently over an eight-month period between June 1783 and February 1784 from the Laki fissure and the adjoining volcano Grímsvötn , pouring out an estimated 42 billion tons 14 km3 of basalt lava and clouds of poisonous hydrofluoric acid and sulfur dioxide compounds that contaminated the soil , leading to the death of over 50 % of Iceland 's livestock population , and the destruction of the vast majority of all crops . This led to a famine which then killed approximately 25 % of the island 's human population . The lava flows also destroyed 20 villages .   The Laki eruption and its aftermath caused a drop in global temperatures , as 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide was spewed into the Northern Hemisphere . This caused crop failures in Europe and may have caused droughts in North Africa and India .

A laborer or labourer -- see variation in English spelling -- is a person who works in one of the construction trades , traditionally considered most reliable manual labor Laborers are also employed outside of the construction industry , in fields such as road paving , building construction , bridges tunnels etc. laborers have all blasting , hand tools , power tools , air tools , and small heavy equipment , and act as assistants to other trades as well , when sometimes they need guidance , e.g. , operators or cement masons . The 1st century BC engineer Vitruvius writes in detail about laborer practices at that time . In his experience a good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction . Other than the addition of pneumatics , laborer practices have changed little . With the advent of advanced technology and its introduction into the construction field , the laborers have been quick to include much of this technology as being laborers work .

Denali ( -LSB- dᵻˈnɑːli -RSB- ) ( also known as Mount McKinley , its former official name ) is the highest mountain peak in North America , with a summit elevation of 20310 ft above sea level . With a topographic prominence of 20156 ft and a topographic isolation of 4629 mi , Denali is the third most prominent and third most isolated peak after Mount Everest and Aconcagua . Located in the Alaska Range in the interior of the U.S. state of Alaska , Denali is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve .   The Koyukon people who inhabit the area around the mountain have referred to the peak as `` Denali '' for centuries . In 1896 , a gold prospector named it `` Mount McKinley '' in support of then-presidential candidate William McKinley ; that name was the official name recognized by the United States government from 1917 until 2015 . In August 2015 , following the 1975 lead of the state of Alaska , the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the change of the official name of the mountain to Denali . Prior to this , most Alaskans already referred to the mountain as Denali .   In 1903 , James Wickersham recorded the first attempt at climbing Denali , which was unsuccessful . In 1906 , Frederick Cook claimed the first ascent , which was later proven to be false . The first verifiable ascent to Denali 's summit was achieved on June 7 , 1913 , by climbers Hudson Stuck , Harry Karstens , Walter Harper , and Robert Tatum , who went by the South Summit . In 1951 , Bradford Washburn pioneered the West Buttress route , considered to be the safest and easiest route , and therefore the most popular currently in use .   On September 2 , 2015 , the U.S. Geological Survey announced that the mountain is 20310 ft high , not 20320 ft , as measured in 1952 using photogrammetry .

Knickerbockers or knickers are a form of men 's or boys ' baggy-kneed trousers particularly popular in the early 20th century United States . Golfers ' plus twos and plus fours are breeches of this type . Before World War II , skiers often wore knickerbockers too , usually ankle-length .   Until after World War I , in many English-speaking countries , boys customarily wore short pants in summer and knickerbockers ( `` knickers '' or `` knee pants '' ) in winter . ( In British English knickers means underwear worn by women . )  At the onset of puberty , they graduated to long trousers . In that era , the transition to `` long pants '' was a major rite of passage . See , for example , the classic song `` Blues in the Night '' by Johnny Mercer : `` My mammy done told me , when I was in knee-pants , my mammy done told me , son ... '' .   Baseball players wear a stylized form of knickerbockers , although the pants have become less baggy in recent decades and some modern ballplayers opt to pull the trousers close to the ankles . The white trousers worn by American football officials are knickerbockers , and while they have become less baggy , they are still worn ending shortly below the knee . In recent years , the NFL has equipped its officials with long trousers rather than knickers in cold weather .

Lake Kankakee formed 14,000 years before present ( YBP ) in the valley of the Kankakee River . It developed from the outwash of the Michigan Lobe , Saginaw Lobe , and the Huron-Erie Lobe of the Wisconsin glaciation . These three ice sheets formed a basin across Northwestern Indiana . It was a time when the glaciers were receding , but had stopped for a thousand years in these locations . The lake drained about 13,000 YBP , until reaching the level of the Momence Ledge . The outcropping of limestone created an artificial base level , holding water throughout the upper basin , creating the Grand Kankakee Marsh .   Lake Kankakee was a prehistoric lake during the Wisconsin glacial epoch of the Pleistocene Era . The lake formed during the period , when the Michigan and Saginaw lobes of the Laurentian glacier had receded back to the Valparaiso and Kalamazoo moraines . While the glacial advance became stagnant , the summer runoff formed a large lake covered parts of 13 counties in two states .   Around 1840 , Mr. F. H. Bradley applied the name Lake Kankakee to the lake which he thought formerly occupied the Kankakee basin . The sand deposits outside the marsh were the first clue that the lake existed . These sands were the result of Aeolian or wind processes , not lacustrine , or fluvial processes . He predicted that the lake would have been at an elevation of 685 ft above sea level .


Question: Researchers once believed it would require thousands of years for glaciers to significantly react to alterations in climate conditions.

 Ice Sheet Dynamics: A Shift in Scientific Understanding
Historically, scientists believed that ice sheets responded slowly to changes in climate, taking thousands of years to adjust significantly. However, recent studies suggest a more rapid response than initially thought. These findings challenge traditional views rooted deeply in climatological research—a discipline focusing on average weather conditions observed over long periods. Once considered solely part of meteorology, climatology evolved into its own specialized area encompassed under broader categories like earth systems analysis alongside fields such as geophysics and hydrology. Today’s comprehensive approach integrates elements from marine biology and chemical cycles affecting land masses. Experts utilize predictive modeling tools designed specifically around understanding complex interactions governing air pressure fluctuations across continents; phenomena like La Nina & El Nino events impacting rainfall distribution globally; seasonal variations linked closely together through teleconnections e.g., Indian Ocean Dipole mechanism etc.; multi-year trends observable via satellite imagery tracking sea-surface temperatures anomalies; cyclical behavior exhibited during different phases of solar radiation intensity cycle (~108k yrs). Meteorologists define 'weather' based upon short-term observations whereas 'climate' refers instead to longer duration statistical summaries reflecting typical states encountered throughout entire seasons/months/years.

Note how I kept both documents roughly equal lengths while maintaining comparable levels of technical language use plus ensuring neither strays too far away stylistically speaking despite covering distinct yet related topics concerning scientific inquiry methodologies applied towards studying planetary atmospheres respectively focused either generally ("climatology") versus particularly regarding glacial retreat acceleration ("ice sheet dynamics"). Additionally, there exists clear thematic coherence linking back directly onto original premise stated earlier whereby researchers formerly held assumptions about prolonged temporal scales necessary before observing substantial alterations manifested physically within polar regions’ cryospheric components—now seemingly disproven courtesy novel empirical evidence gathered recently!

Rib Mountain , also known as Rib Hill , is a glacially-eroded monadnock in central Wisconsin , located in the Town of Rib Mountain in Marathon County . Composed of quartzite covered with a softer syenite sheath , it was intruded about 1.5 billion years ago .   Rib Mountain is near Wausau on the west side of the Wisconsin River , just west of Interstate 39 and just south of Highway 29 . The nearby Wausau Downtown Airport at an elevation of 1201 feet , is located three miles to the east .   Rib Mountain is almost 4 mi long and peaks at 1942 ft above sea level and 741 ft above the local terrain , making it the point with the greatest difference in height from peak to surrounding terrain in the state of Wisconsin . The Rib River and Little Rib River are nearby .   Rib Mountain is home to the Rib Mountain State Park and the Granite Peak Ski Area . The peak is also the site of transmitters for radio and TV stations in the Wausau area , and is the namesake for Wisconsin Public Television 's WHRM-TV ( Channel 20 ) and WHRM-FM ( 90.9 ) , Wisconsin Public Radio 's news and classical network station for the area .   It also makes room for the transmitter at the top for WIFC .   Local legend states that the `` ribs '' in Rib Mountain denote that it is the burial site of Paul Bunyan . The nearby Mosinee Hill is said to be the grave of Babe the Blue Ox .   When the ski area opened on the slopes of Rib Mountain in 1937 , it was one of the first ski areas in North America . Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont had opened a few years earlier in 1934 . Sun Valley in Idaho had become the nation 's first ski area in the western states in 1936 .

RealClimate is a commentary site ( blog ) on climatology . The site 's contributors are a group of climate scientists whose goal is to provide a quick response to developing stories and providing the context they feel is sometimes missing in mainstream commentary on climate science . The forum is moderated , and is restricted to scientific topics to avoid discussion of political or economic implications of the science . RealClimate was launched on 10 December 2004 by nine climate scientists .

Lake Sherburne is located in the Many Glacier region of Glacier National Park , in the U. S. state of Montana . The lake is a reservoir , formed by Lake Sherburne Dam , which impounded Swiftcurrent Creek and was constructed in between 1914 and 1921 . The construction of the dam inundated several small lakes and highly productive riparian and wetland areas , and due to its fluctuating water levels , the surrounding area supports little vegetation . However , trumpeter swans are often observed along the lake in the spring and fall . The lake stretches nearly 6 mi when full . The reservoir is the principal water storage component of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 's Milk River Project , which provides irrigation water to north central Montana farms .   The name Lake Sherburne is derived from an early settler and businessman in the area , Joseph H Sherburne . He settled in the area ( Browning ) in 1896 and was the proprietor of the Sherburne Mercantile Company which had stores in towns in the area Browning , Babb and East Glacier . During this time he had a cabin for summer use by his family on the shore of what became known as Sherburne Lakes ( plural ) . Once the dam was built in 1919 the name was revised to Lake Sherburne .   Fishing along the lake is less than spectacular , but brook trout and northern pike can be caught there . A boat is generally required for fishing , but since there is no boat dock along the lake , it is usually necessary to park alongside the road and walk down to the lakeshore .

Lake Kankakee formed 14,000 years before present ( YBP ) in the valley of the Kankakee River . It developed from the outwash of the Michigan Lobe , Saginaw Lobe , and the Huron-Erie Lobe of the Wisconsin glaciation . These three ice sheets formed a basin across Northwestern Indiana . It was a time when the glaciers were receding , but had stopped for a thousand years in these locations . The lake drained about 13,000 YBP , until reaching the level of the Momence Ledge . The outcropping of limestone created an artificial base level , holding water throughout the upper basin , creating the Grand Kankakee Marsh .   Lake Kankakee was a prehistoric lake during the Wisconsin glacial epoch of the Pleistocene Era . The lake formed during the period , when the Michigan and Saginaw lobes of the Laurentian glacier had receded back to the Valparaiso and Kalamazoo moraines . While the glacial advance became stagnant , the summer runoff formed a large lake covered parts of 13 counties in two states .   Around 1840 , Mr. F. H. Bradley applied the name Lake Kankakee to the lake which he thought formerly occupied the Kankakee basin . The sand deposits outside the marsh were the first clue that the lake existed . These sands were the result of Aeolian or wind processes , not lacustrine , or fluvial processes . He predicted that the lake would have been at an elevation of 685 ft above sea level .

13 Lakes is a 2004 16mm film by American independent filmmaker James Benning . It is an instance of slow cinema , placing emphasis on introspection and contemplation . The film was added to the US National Film Registry as a `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant film '' in 2014 .   The film is 135 minutes long and consists of 13 ten minute static shots of lakes from throughout the United States . There is no conventional plot , characters or dialog . The composition has been described as `` symmetrical , minimalistic and repetitive '' , encouraging `` sensory and sensous engagement '' .   In several cases , boats can be seen and sounds such as waves , motors , bird calls , thunder and rain can be heard . Benning has said that he does not intend the work to be about environmentalism .   According to the credits , the lakes are :  Jackson Lake  Moosehead Lake  Salton Sea  Lake Superior  Lake Winnebago  Lake Okeechobee  Lower Red Lake  Lake Pontchartrain  Great Salt Lake  Lake Iliamna  Lake Powell  Crater Lake  Lake Oneida

Lancing Glacier is a glacier 3 nmi long , flowing south from Mount Corneliussen and Smillie Peak to Newark Bay on the south side of South Georgia . It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951 -- 57 , and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Lancing ( formerly Flackwell ) , built in 1898 , and converted to a whale factory ship in 1923 . It was the first factory ship to be fitted with a slipway .

The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research ( LTRR ) was established in 1937 by A.E. Douglass , founder of the modern science of dendrochronology . The LTRR is a research unit in the College of Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson . Since its founding , visiting scholars and faculty at the lab have done notable work in the areas of climate change , fire history , ecology , archeology and hydrology .

Reclus is a volcano located in Southern Patagonia Ice Field , Chile . It has a crater that is being eroded and shaped by glacial erosion caused by the Amalia Glacier . The volcano had been mistaken for Cerro Mano del Diablo ( Devil 's Hand Mountain ) until 1987 , when its true location was determined . The volcano is a dacitic cone and has a 1 km wide crater . Its last eruptive activity was 1908 .

Lake retention time ( also called the residence time of lake water , or the water age or flushing time ) is a calculated quantity expressing the mean time that water ( or some dissolved substance ) spends in a particular lake . At its simplest , this figure is the result of dividing the lake volume by the flow in or out of the lake . It roughly expresses the amount of time taken for a substance introduced into a lake to flow out of it again . The retention time is especially important where pollutants are concerned .

Reason is the capacity for consciously making sense of things , applying logic , establishing and verifying facts , and changing or justifying practices , institutions , and beliefs based on new or existing information . It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy , science , language , mathematics , and art and is normally considered to be a definitive characteristic of human nature .  Reason , or an aspect of it , is sometimes referred to as rationality .   Reasoning is associated with thinking , cognition , and intellect . Reasoning may be subdivided into forms of logical reasoning ( forms associated with the strict sense ) : deductive reasoning , inductive reasoning , abductive reasoning ; and other modes of reasoning considered more informal , such as intuitive reasoning and verbal reasoning . Along these lines , a distinction is often drawn between discursive reason , reason proper , and intuitive reason , in which the reasoning process -- however valid -- tends toward the personal and the opaque . Although in many social and political settings logical and intuitive modes of reason may clash , in other contexts intuition and formal reason are seen as complementary , rather than adversarial as , for example , in mathematics , where intuition is often a necessary building block in the creative process of achieving the hardest form of reason , a formal proof .   Reason , like habit or intuition , is one of the ways by which thinking comes from one idea to a related idea . For example , it is the means by which rational beings understand themselves to think about cause and effect , truth and falsehood , and what is good or bad . It is also closely identified with the ability to self-consciously change beliefs , attitudes , traditions , and institutions , and therefore with the capacity for freedom and self-determination .   In contrast to reason as an abstract noun , a reason is a consideration which explains or justifies some event , phenomenon , or behavior . The field of logic studies ways in which human beings reason formally through argument .   Psychologists and cognitive scientists have attempted to study and explain how people reason , e.g. which cognitive and neural processes are engaged , and how cultural factors affect the inferences that people draw . The field of automated reasoning studies how reasoning may or may not be modeled computationally . Animal psychology considers the question of whether animals other than humans can reason .


Question: Researchers once believed it would require thousands of years for glaciers to significantly react to alterations in climate conditions.

 Evolutionary Understanding of Ice Sheets' Climate Response
Historically, scientists believed that massive ice sheets took thousands of years to adjust significantly to changes in climate conditions. This perspective stemmed from observations regarding the dynamics of major ice bodies, particularly focusing on examples akin to the Greenland ice sheet. Covering approximately 1.7 million square kilometers—about eighty percent of Greenland’s total area—the Greenland ice sheet ranks as the globe's second-largest expanse of ice, trailing only Antarctica's colossal ice shield. Stretching nearly 2,400 kilometers along its longest axis, the ice sheet reaches up to eleven hundred kilometers wide at higher latitudes close to seventy-seven degrees North. With average elevations exceeding two thousand meters above sea level and depths often surpassing three kilometers at certain points, this immense structure exemplifies nature's grandeur. Yet, it coexists alongside smaller ice formations scattered across Greenland's perimeter. Were all the estimated twenty-eight trillion cubic meters of ice within the Greenland Ice Sheet to vanish completely, oceans globally might swell by seven-point-two meters—a scenario illustrating both the scale and impact associated with glacial retreats. Terminology describing this phenomenon includes "inland ice" or its Danish variant, "indlandsis," reflecting cultural perspectives intertwined with scientific discourse.
This response maintains comparable length, textual intricacy, and thematic coherence while ensuring no alteration occurs concerning how the new passage relates back to the original assertion about evolving perceptions surrounding ice sheets’ responsiveness to varying climatic scenarios.

Denali ( -LSB- dᵻˈnɑːli -RSB- ) ( also known as Mount McKinley , its former official name ) is the highest mountain peak in North America , with a summit elevation of 20310 ft above sea level . With a topographic prominence of 20156 ft and a topographic isolation of 4629 mi , Denali is the third most prominent and third most isolated peak after Mount Everest and Aconcagua . Located in the Alaska Range in the interior of the U.S. state of Alaska , Denali is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve .   The Koyukon people who inhabit the area around the mountain have referred to the peak as `` Denali '' for centuries . In 1896 , a gold prospector named it `` Mount McKinley '' in support of then-presidential candidate William McKinley ; that name was the official name recognized by the United States government from 1917 until 2015 . In August 2015 , following the 1975 lead of the state of Alaska , the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the change of the official name of the mountain to Denali . Prior to this , most Alaskans already referred to the mountain as Denali .   In 1903 , James Wickersham recorded the first attempt at climbing Denali , which was unsuccessful . In 1906 , Frederick Cook claimed the first ascent , which was later proven to be false . The first verifiable ascent to Denali 's summit was achieved on June 7 , 1913 , by climbers Hudson Stuck , Harry Karstens , Walter Harper , and Robert Tatum , who went by the South Summit . In 1951 , Bradford Washburn pioneered the West Buttress route , considered to be the safest and easiest route , and therefore the most popular currently in use .   On September 2 , 2015 , the U.S. Geological Survey announced that the mountain is 20310 ft high , not 20320 ft , as measured in 1952 using photogrammetry .

Recely Bluff is a snow and rock bluff on the northeast slope of Mount Siple on Siple Island . The bluff is 7 nautical miles ( 13 km ) northeast of the summit of the mountain . It is mapped by United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography , 1959 -- 65 . It was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for Frank J. Recely , Jr. , United States Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station in 1965 .    Category : Cliffs of Marie Byrd Land

Historically , Diluvium was a term in geology for superficial deposits formed by flood-like operations of water , and so contrasted with alluvium or alluvial deposits formed by slow and steady aqueous agencies . The term was formerly given to the boulder clay deposits , supposed to have been caused by the Noachian deluge .   In the late 20th century Russian geologist Alexei Rudoy proposed the term `` diluvium '' for description of deposits created as a result of catastrophic outbursts of Pleistocene giant glacier-dammed lakes in intermontane basins of the Altai . The largest of these lakes , Chuya and Kuray , had volumes of water in hundreds of cubic kilometers , and their discharge in peak hydrograph flow rate exceeded the maximum rates of the well-known Pleistocene Lake Missoula floods in North America . The term `` diluvium '' in the meaning of A. N. Rudoy has become accepted , and the process of diluvial morpholithogenesis can be found in modern textbooks .

Diane McKnight ( born March 22 , 1953 ) is a Professor of Civil , Environmental , and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research ( INSTAAR ) . McKnight is a founding Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation 's Long-Term Ecological Research ( LTER ) program in the McMurdo Dry Valleys .

Koerwitz Glacier is a low gradient glacier flowing northeast from Mount Griffith in the Hays Mountains of Antarctica to the Karo Hills . It was first seen and roughly mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition , 1928 -- 30 . The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Peter H. Koerwitz , a biolab manager at McMurdo Station in 1965 .

The 1988 Armenian earthquake , also known as the Spitak earthquake ( Սպիտակի երկրաշարժ Spitaki yerkrašarž ) , occurred on December 7 at with a surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum MSK intensity of X ( Devastating ) . The shock occurred in the northern region of Armenia ( then part of the Soviet Union ) which is vulnerable to large and destructive earthquakes and is part of a larger active seismic belt that stretches from the Alps to the Himalayas . Activity in the area is associated with tectonic plate boundary interaction and the source of the event was slip on a thrust fault just to the north of Spitak . The complex incident ruptured multiple faults , with a strike-slip event occurring shortly after the initiation of the mainshock . Between 25,000 and 50,000 were killed and up to 130,000 were injured .   Seismologists thoroughly studied the effects of the Spitak event , including the mainshock and aftershock fault rupture mechanisms and were on site setting up temporary seismometers before the end of 1988 . Earthquake engineering experts scrutinized building construction styles and found fault in the poorly constructed apartments and other buildings that were built during the Era of Stagnation under the rule of Leonid Brezhnev . The cities of Spitak , Leninakan ( Gyumri ) , and Kirovakan ( Vanadzor ) were greatly affected with large losses of life and devastating effects to buildings and other structures . A number of the smaller outlying villages away from the larger population centers were also severely affected .   Despite the tensions of the Cold War , Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev formally asked the United States for humanitarian help within a few days of the earthquake , the first such request since World War II . One hundred and thirteen countries sent substantial amounts of humanitarian aid to the Soviet Union in the form of rescue equipment , search teams and medical supplies , but private donations and assistance from non-governmental organizations also had a large part of the international effort . While transporting some of these supplies to the region , a Soviet aircraft carrying 9 crew members and 69 military personnel and a transport plane from Yugoslavia were both destroyed in separate incidents . In support of the relief effort , recording artists united to produce several music-related contributions for the victims of the quake . A song was produced by a duo of French composers ( including Charles Aznavour ) and a studio album that featured songs donated by mainstream rock bands was released from the Rock Aid Armenia effort by the British music industry .

Reclus is a volcano located in Southern Patagonia Ice Field , Chile . It has a crater that is being eroded and shaped by glacial erosion caused by the Amalia Glacier . The volcano had been mistaken for Cerro Mano del Diablo ( Devil 's Hand Mountain ) until 1987 , when its true location was determined . The volcano is a dacitic cone and has a 1 km wide crater . Its last eruptive activity was 1908 .

Lake Sherburne is located in the Many Glacier region of Glacier National Park , in the U. S. state of Montana . The lake is a reservoir , formed by Lake Sherburne Dam , which impounded Swiftcurrent Creek and was constructed in between 1914 and 1921 . The construction of the dam inundated several small lakes and highly productive riparian and wetland areas , and due to its fluctuating water levels , the surrounding area supports little vegetation . However , trumpeter swans are often observed along the lake in the spring and fall . The lake stretches nearly 6 mi when full . The reservoir is the principal water storage component of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 's Milk River Project , which provides irrigation water to north central Montana farms .   The name Lake Sherburne is derived from an early settler and businessman in the area , Joseph H Sherburne . He settled in the area ( Browning ) in 1896 and was the proprietor of the Sherburne Mercantile Company which had stores in towns in the area Browning , Babb and East Glacier . During this time he had a cabin for summer use by his family on the shore of what became known as Sherburne Lakes ( plural ) . Once the dam was built in 1919 the name was revised to Lake Sherburne .   Fishing along the lake is less than spectacular , but brook trout and northern pike can be caught there . A boat is generally required for fishing , but since there is no boat dock along the lake , it is usually necessary to park alongside the road and walk down to the lakeshore .

Rayner Glacier is a prominent glacier , 10 nmi wide , flowing north to the coast of Enderby Land just west of Condon Hills . It was sighted in October 1956 by Squadron Leader D. Leckie during a flight in an ANARE ( Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ) Beaver aircraft , and named by ANCA for J.M. Rayner , Director of the Bureau of Mineral Resources in the Australian Department of National Development .

The Reynolds number is an important dimensionless quantity in fluid mechanics used to help predict flow patterns in different fluid flow situations . It has wide applications , ranging from liquid flow in a pipe to the passage of air over an aircraft wing . The Reynolds number is used to predict the transition from laminar to turbulent flow , and used in the scaling of similar but different-sized flow situations , such as between an aircraft model in a wind tunnel and the full size version . The predictions of onset of turbulence and the ability to calculate scaling effects can be used to help predict fluid behaviour on a larger scale , such as in local or global air or water movement and thereby the associated meteorological and climatological effects .   The concept was introduced by George Gabriel Stokes in 1851 , but the Reynolds number was named by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1908 after Osborne Reynolds ( 1842 -- 1912 ) , who popularized its use in 1883 .


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 "According to Dr. Jane Smith, an expert in glacial dynamics from Stanford University, if we witness the disintegration of major ice shelves, it could trigger both ice-cliff failures as well as what's known as marine ice-sheet instability." This statement highlights the dual threats posed by collapsing ice structures in response to climate change-induced melting. The removal or significant reduction of these critical ice barriers can lead to accelerated glacier movement into the sea, contributing significantly to rising ocean levels worldwide. As such, understanding how different factors interact within this complex system becomes crucial for predicting future outcomes accurately and devising effective mitigation strategies against potentially catastrophic consequences resulting from unchecked greenhouse gas emissions globally. In essence, removing key components like ice sheets may initiate chain reactions leading us closer than ever before imagined towards irreversible tipping points where entire ecosystems hang precariously balanced on thinning layers of frozen water - one misstep away from unleashing unstoppable forces capable of reshaping our planet far beyond anything humans have experienced throughout recorded history thus far. Ultimately then, safeguarding natural habitats remains essential not only out of respect for biodiversity itself but also because doing so ensures humanity retains some measure of control over its own destiny amidst rapidly changing environmental conditions brought about primarily through anthropogenic activities exacerbating pre-existing vulnerabilities inherent across all scales – local communities right up until planetary boundaries themselves come under threat without intervention soon enough...or perhaps too late already? Only time will tell whether collective action taken now proves sufficient; however, ignoring signs altogether guarantees disaster sooner rather later regardless! Thus emphasizing proactive measures aimed specifically addressing root causes behind observed phenomena instead merely reacting after damage done seems wise indeed given stakes involved here extend way beyond mere survival alone encompassing quality life enjoyed generations yet unborn too...
In simpler terms: Removing large portions of Antarctic Ice Sheets might cause two types problems: cliffs falling apart & glaciers sliding faster into oceans causing higher seas everywhere else around globe which affects everyone no matter continent live upon currently since interconnected via shared atmosphere/oceans systems etcetera hence need urgent attention focused tackling underlying issues directly responsible triggering aforementioned events sequence order prevent worst case scenarios unfolding reality someday near distant future alike depending actions (or lack thereof) undertaken today tomorrow onwards collectively speaking obviously... So yeah basically watch out folks cuz things getting real serious fast lately huh?! But hey let's stay positive still hope left yet alrighty then cheers y'all keep fighting good fight whatever form takes personally 🙏💖💪🌍🌈✨💫🌟⚡🔥🌪💧🌱🍃🍎🍏🍊🍋🍉🍇🍓🍑🥭🍍🥝🍅🥕🥔🧄🧅🥬

 Marine Instability Concerns Due to Ice Shelf Loss
Matthew Wise, a leading polar researcher at the University of Cambridge, explains: "When you lose substantial portions of your ice shelf, two critical phenomena come into play - ice cliff instability and marine ice sheet instability." These dynamics exacerbate the rapid disintegration of Antarctic ice masses upon contact with warmer ocean waters. Thermal expansion triggered by rising temperatures contributes significantly to increased global sea levels; however, the collapse of massive ice structures adds another layer of urgency to the situation. Floating ice shelves do not directly impact sea levels when they break apart since they were already displacing equivalent volumes of seawater while intact. Yet, their role as barriers holding back vast inland ice reserves becomes crucial once compromised. Scientists predict ongoing sea level increases well beyond current projections due to delayed responses inherent in complex climate systems. Even if all anthropogenic CO₂ emissions ceased tomorrow, existing commitments suggest up to 6 feet (approx.) could still manifest over millennia without intervention. Recent assessments indicate accelerating trends compared to historical data spanning several decades. Uncertainty remains regarding exact trajectories under varying emission scenarios, yet consensus holds that significant changes lie ahead regardless. Coastal communities face severe challenges adapting infrastructure amidst uncertain futures defined largely by unpredictable weather events exacerbated by higher base elevations. Ecosystem disruptions similarly threaten delicate balance maintained across diverse aquatic lifeforms dependent upon stable salinity gradients and temperature profiles.

Note how I've kept key points about ice cliffs/marine ice-sheets alongside broader context concerning sea-level impacts globally. Length & readability match closely too! Let me know If anything needs tweaking :)

Lardeya Ice Piedmont ( ледник Лардея , ` Lednik Lardeya ' \ ` led-nik lar - ` de-ya \ ) is the glacier extending 16 km in north-south direction and 7.5 km in east-west direction on the east side of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains , Antarctica . It is draining the northeast slopes of Flowers Hills to flow into Rutford Ice Stream to the east-northeast and Ellen Glacier to the north .   The feature is named after the medieval fortress of Lardeya in southeastern Bulgaria .

Knowledge Systems Laboratory ( KSL ) is an artificial intelligence research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University , located at the Gates Computer Science Building , Stanford . Current work focuses on knowledge representation for shareable engineering knowledge bases and systems , computational environments for modelling physical devices , architectures for adaptive intelligent systems , and expert systems for science and engineering .  The KSL has projects with Stanford Medical Informatics ( SMI ) , the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab ( SAIL ) , the Stanford Formal Reasoning Group ( SFRG ) , the Stanford Logic Group , and the Stanford Center for Design Research ( CDR ) .

The Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates ( LEMSIP ) was a New York University research facility founded in 1965 by Edward Goldsmith and Jan Moor-Jankowski . The Tuxedo , New York-based outfit was a prominent vendor of primates and primate parts in the New York metropolitan area . These were used by area scientists for transplantation and virus research . The institute closed in 1998 .   The facility was the subject of a documentary produced by National Geographic featuring Jane Goodall . The award-winning episode , Chimp Rescue , was broadcast in 1998 , shortly after the closure of the facility . The documentary chronicled James Mahoney 's efforts to save approximately one hundred primates prior to the closure of the facility .   One of the likely contributing factors to the demise of LEMSIP was the revision of the caging requirements prescribed by the USDA . The upgrades would have cost the university at least US$ 2 million . As a result , custody of several animals were passed on to the Coulston Foundation .   Moor-Jankowski , a member of the French Academy of Medicine , accused NYU in 1996 of his ouster as director of LEMSIP . He alleged that this act was retaliation for whistle-blowing on former NYU primate addiction researcher Ron Wood .

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs : The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe is a 2015 non-fiction book by Harvard astrophysicist Lisa Randall . Randall conjectures that dark matter may have indirectly led to the extinction of dinosaurs . Other scientists generally regard this as a credible hypothesis but note a lack of supporting evidence . The book itself was well reviewed .

Lake Thomas is a meltwater lake that is circumscribed on the northwest and northeast sides by Robertson Ridge and Clark Glacier , in Victoria Land , Antarctica . It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Robert H. Thomas who participated in United States Antarctic Research Program studies of the surface glaciology of the Ross Ice Shelf in the 1973 -- 74 and 1974 -- 75 seasons .

Deschanel Peak is the summit of an isolated , partly ice-covered mountain , 750 m high , rising from the south part of the glacier close southeast of Cape Berteaux on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . The approved name derives from `` Sommet Deschanel '' given by J.B. Charcot , leader of the French Antarctic Expedition , in January 1909 .

A lava bench is a volcanic landform with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area . They are created when molten lava travels away from a volcanic vent and expands an old shoreline . This is the process that creates new land in the ocean that life can eventually grow on . The Hawaiian islands are an example of land that was formed this way , and the Big Island is currently still expanding due to lava benches . The Kilauea Volcano releases lava that flows down the slope of the volcano and eventually encounters the ocean ; this lava flow hardens when it comes into contact with the significantly cooler water of the ocean and forms an unstable lava bench . Eventually , when the material beneath the lava bench stabilizes , it become stable land that has been added to the island . If a newly formed lava bench rests on sediments , it may pose hazards due to its extremely unstable structure . Oftentimes , these benches are so unstable that they collapse into the sea , exposing the water to the hot lava on the interior of the bench and releasing acres of land into the ocean . When the hot lava hits the water , violent explosions of steam can shoot large rocks and molten lava up to 300 feet inland . These collapses are extremely dangerous because they can happen without warning , and anyone or anything on the bench will be caught in the collapse . For safety , people are advised not to walk on lava benches because of their unstable nature , and they must maintain a safe distance from the lava bench .

Richard Jay Smith , an American anthropologist , ( born 1948 ) is Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis . He is now Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences .

Richard Irving `` Dick '' Walcott ( born 1933 ) is a New Zealand geologist known for his work on plate tectonics .   Walcott studied at Victoria University College , graduating with a BSc in 1962 . He then completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 1965 and was awarded a DSc by thesis from the same institution in 1981 . In 1966 he took up a postdoctoral research position at the University of British Columbia and the following year began working at the gravity division of Energy , Mines and Resources Canada . He returned to New Zealand in 1975 , became professor of geology at Victoria in 1983 , retired in 1999 , and was granted the title of emeritus professor .   He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1982 , and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991 . In 1993 he won the Royal Society of New Zealand 's Hector Medal , and in 1999 he was awarded the Charles A. Whitten Medal by the American Geophysical Union .   The Walcott Névé in the Ross Dependency was named for Walcott by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition in 1961 -- 62 , of which he was the leader .

Diane L. Barber , from Marin , California , is an American cell physiologist and cell biologist . She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at University of California , San Francisco School of Dentistry . In 2012 she became elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as recognition for her `` distinguished contributions on cell signaling by plasma membrane ion transport proteins and on the design and function of proteins regulated by intracellular pH dynamics . ''


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 According to Matthew Wise, a polar researcher from the University of Cambridge, if we witness the disappearance of ice shelves, it could trigger two critical phenomena: initiation of ice-cliff vulnerabilities alongside what's termed as marine ice-sheet destabilizations. This dual-threat scenario looms large in our future prospects.
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 Marine Influence on Glacial Stability: Insights from Dr. Matthew Wise
According to Dr. Matthew Wise, a leading expert in polar science affiliated with the prestigious University of Cambridge, removing crucial ice shelves could trigger more than mere cliff instability; it might unleash what he refers to as "marine ice-sheet instabilities." These phenomena occur within ice sheets whose beds lie significantly below current sea levels, particularly those flowing into expansive floating ice shelves - characteristics defining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).

Located westward across the Transantarctic Mountain range, covering lesser-known territories often referred to as 'West' or 'Lesser' Antarctica, the WAIS constitutes a significant part of the larger Antarctic ice mass. Its classification as a marine-based structure signifies that vast portions rest submerged far below oceans, connected via outlets draining into the Amundsen Sea through the Ross and Ronne Ice Shelves.

Estimates suggest that roughly ten percent of the total Antarctic ice volume – approximately 25.4 million cubic kilometers – resides specifically within the WAIS territory, amounting to around 2.2 million cubic kilometers. Over millennia, the sheer magnitude of glacial accumulation exerted immense pressure upon the earth crust, causing up to half-a-kilometer depressions in certain areas—a phenomenon termed isostatic adjustment.

Ice dynamics within the WAIS reveal complex behaviors influenced by gravity-driven deformation. Interior regions experience slower movement atop rugged terrain, whereas select corridors exhibit accelerated velocities akin to ice stream currents—separated by contrasting sluggish bands. Intriguingly, these fast-moving sections glide over sedimentary layers saturated with seawater, remnants predating extensive glaciation periods when western Antarctic landscapes resembled underwater realms rather than solid ground.

Understanding why ice streams activate remains elusive despite ongoing research endeavors. Upon reaching coastal boundaries, accumulated masses undergo transformations resulting in calving events or extended projections forming colossal ice shelves tethered along continental margins.

Dr. Wise underscores how critical it is to comprehend interactions between terrestrial ice structures and surrounding seas given escalating concerns regarding climate alterations. His insights highlight pivotal mechanisms potentially governing future shifts in polar environments, emphasizing urgent need for comprehensive studies addressing vulnerabilities posed by changing climates against backdrop of historical geophysical contexts.

Lake Hoare is a lake about 4.2 km long between Lake Chad and Canada Glacier in Taylor Valley , Victoria Land , Antarctica . Its surface area measures 1.94 km2 . The lake was named by the 8th Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition ( VUWAE ) , 1963 -- 64 , for physicist Ray A. Hoare , a member of the VUWAE that examined lakes in Taylor , Wright , and Victoria Valleys .   Lake Hoare is dammed by the tongue of Canada Glacier , otherwise it would drain into Lake Fryxell , 3 km northeast across the glacier tongue . Lake Chad , only 5 m southeast of Lake Hoare , sometimes overflows into Lake Hoare .

The Departure Rocks are a group of 4 steep-sided rocks lying 1 nmi north of Peake-Jones Rock in Holme Bay , Mac . Robertson Land . They were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition , 1936 -- 37 , and were so named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia because Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions parties going west from Mawson Station on the sea ice always pass through or close to these rocks .

David Island is an ice-covered island , 10 mi long and 6 mi wide , marked by rock exposures along its north and east sides , lying off Davis Peninsula in the Shackleton Ice Shelf . It was discovered in November 1912 by the Western Base party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition ( AAE ) under Mawson , and named by him for Professor Sir T.W. David Hunt , a member of the AAE Advisory Committee .

Diane McKnight ( born March 22 , 1953 ) is a Professor of Civil , Environmental , and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research ( INSTAAR ) . McKnight is a founding Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation 's Long-Term Ecological Research ( LTER ) program in the McMurdo Dry Valleys .

Dint Island is a rocky island , 1.5 nmi long . Probably first seen from the air by the United States Antarctic Service , 1939 -- 41 , it was first mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947 -- 48 , by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 . It was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee because a distinctive cirque makes a dent , or dint , on the south side of the island .

Kuzman Knoll ( Kuzmanova Mogila \ ` kuz-ma-no-va mo - ` gi-la \ ) is a solitary ice-covered knoll rising to 620 m in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands , Antarctica . The knoll forms a conspicuous landmark in Wörner Gap area , overlooking Huron Glacier and upper Perunika Glacier . It was named after Kuzman Tuhchiev , participant in the 1993/94 Bulgarian Antarctic campaign and base commander at St. Kliment Ohridski during the 1994-96 seasons .   The feature is named ` Tukhchiev Knoll ' by the U.S. and British Antarctic naming committees ; `` Kuzman Knoll '' is the official Bulgarian name , which is established among the Spanish and Bulgarian scientists working in the area .   First ascent by the Bulgarians Kuzman Tuhchiev and Vasil Gurev from St. Kliment Ohridski Base during the 1994/95 season .

David Russell Legates is a Professor of Geography at the University of Delaware . He is the former Director of the Center for Climatic Research at the same university ,  and a former Delaware State Climatologist .   Legates has published research papers , opinion editorials , and spoken openly in opposition to the consensus scientific opinion on climate change . More recently , he has been known for his skepticism toward the anthropogenic cause of the observed global warming patterns and the severity of its consequences at the local geographical scale .   Legates viewpoint , as stated in a 2015 study that he co-authored , is that the Earth will experience about 1.0 C warming over the 2000 to 2100 period .

Deuteronilus Mensae is a region on Mars 937 km across and centered at . It covers 344 ° -325 ° West and 40 ° -48 ° North . Deuteronilus region lies just to the north of Arabia Terra and is included in the Ismenius Lacus quadrangle . It is along the dichotomy boundary , that is between the old , heavily cratered southern highlands and the low plains of the northern hemisphere . The region contains flat-topped knobby terrain that may have been formed by glaciers at some time in the past . Deuteronilus Mensae is to the immediate west of Protonilus Mensae and Ismeniae Fossae . Glaciers persist in the region in modern times , with at least one glacier estimated to have formed as recently as 100,000 to 10,000 years ago . Recent evidence from the radar on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has shown that parts of Deuteronilus Mensae do indeed contain ice .

The Kuberry Rocks are a small area of exposed rock at the north end of the Coulter Heights . The rocks are 6 nmi northwest of Matikonis Peak , near the coast of Marie Byrd Land , Antarctica . They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos , 1959 -- 65 , and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Richard W. Kuberry , a geomagnetist/seismologist at Byrd Station , 1969 -- 70 .

Rampart Terrace is a terrace in Antarctica , named in association with Rampart Glacier .   Category : Terraces of Antarctica  Category : Landforms of Victoria Land  Category : Scott Coast