By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to enable better predictions of how current ice melting will affect levels around the world.
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Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences
Allie Coonin
GeoChemistry Building
Room 107
Room 107
Research Interests
Geophysics
Advisor
Harriet Lau
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she/her
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Ice sheet melt has been shown to increase volcanic activity in subglacial volcanoes elsewhere on the globe. DEEPS PhD candidate Allie Coonin and her team ran 4,000 computer simulations to study how ice sheet loss affects Antarctica’s buried volcanoes, and they found that gradual melt could increase the number and size of subglacial eruptions.
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