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Mike Wolovick discusses engineering techniques to slow down glaciers, reducing sea level rise

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 3:35 p.m.

Our guest this week is Mike Wolovick, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the College of Global Change and Earth Systems Science, Beijing Normal University. Mike and Andrew discuss how glaciers might be slowed down using a variety of engineering techniques. See the paper Andrew, Mike wrote

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Papers for Mike Wolovick

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Lockley et al., 2020 Glacier geoengineering to address sea-level rise: A geotechnical approach https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2020.11.008Moore et al. (2018):  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03036-4  (Nature comment, three methods)

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Wolovick and Moore (2018):  https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/2955/2018/   (TC paper, artificial sills in more detail)

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Hunt and Byers (2019):  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11027-018-9831-y   (crude engineering treatment of berms vs thin barriers)

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Frieler et al. (2016):  https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/7/203/2016/  (pumping water up onto East Antarctica)

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Feldmann et al. (2019):  https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw4132  (pumping water up onto West Antarctica)

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