The Seabed Anchored Curtain project will limit sea level rise by creating barriers that would protect ice sheets from warm ocean waters that flow beneath the fringing ice shelves. Spurred by the impending collapse of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, this strategy will limit the access of warm water to the most vulnerable parts of ice sheets. This could be possible as the warm, dense, bottom waters are within relatively narrow channels in the continental shelf.
Co-design and community engagement in Ilulissat, Greenland on the Greenland ice sheet Jakobshavn glacier and fjord system, in particular impacts on halibut fisheries. This will be done with community workshops and youth activities. A Youth Science-Art competition and exhibition will be inaugurated in Nuuk in October, and then will travel to the Arktikum exhibition space in Rovaniemi.
Co-design with reindeer herders in the Eurasian Arctic and their commissioning of research in potential sustainable land use practice and its climate feedbacks.
