Today's episode features Emily Schwans! Emily is a PhD candidate at Penn State working on glacier modeling in Antarctica, specifically the Thwaites Glacier. The Thwaites Glacier is part of the West Antarctic ice sheet, is sometimes referred to as the Doomsday Glacier, and is the widest glacier on earth at 80 miles! Understanding and modelling all these changes is part of what Emily works on and what we'll talk about today. But we also talk about her background, her introduction to geology, field work and modelling, and tangents about science fiction. Enjoy!
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You can find Emily Schwans on Twitter @schwantarctic. International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC): https://thwaitesglacier.org/.
Book List from this episode: Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson and The Swarm by Frank Schatzing.
Recorded on 19 October 2020.
