Collaborative Research: East Antarctic Outlet Glacier Dynamics: Investigations of Beardmore Glacier

Active and passive seismic experiments, together with GPS measurements were made to map ice thickness and basal sediments and response to tidal forcing (Cooley et al., 2019). An important result is radar-detected evidence of a subglacial channel that originates from beneath the glacier (Conway et al., 2019); this provides constraints on the geothermal flux and basal conditions beneath the glacier. The new bed topography differs significantly from Bedmap2; the data are being used to constrain dynamic models of the response of Beardmore Glacier to changing environmental conditions (Koutnik et al., 2019).