Research project: From icebergs to ice sheets; provenance of ice rafted sediments
Sea level rise is arguable the most important consequence of anthropogenic climate change. However, accurate forecasting of the future magnitude of sea-level change is difficult because current numerical climate models lack the capacity to accurately model the melting and growth of continental ice sheets. This complicates long-range sea-level projections, because the retreat of continental ice sheets will increasingly contribute to sea-level rise as the 21st century progresses. New methods and data are therefore urgently needed to test the accuracy of existing ice sheet models and to provide test beds for ice sheet model development. We aim to do this by reconstructing ice sheet coverage in the geological past.