EPISODE · Feb 8, 2021 · 1H 23M
Mike Wolovick discusses engineering techniques to slow down glaciers, reducing sea level rise
from Reviewer 2 does geoengineering · host Andrew Lockley
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 Get in touch with us on twitter @reviewer2geo or Andrew on @geoengineering1 or or me, Clare @clare_nomad_geo Papers for Mike Wolovick 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) Wolovick and Moore (2018): https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/2955/2018/ (TC paper, artificial sills in more detail) Hunt and Byers (2019): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11027-018-9831-y (crude engineering treatment of berms vs thin barriers) Frieler et al. (2016): https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/7/203/2016/ (pumping water up onto East Antarctica) Feldmann et al. (2019): https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw4132 (pumping water up onto West Antarctica)
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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 Get in touch with us on twitter @reviewer2geo or Andrew on @geoengineering1 or or me, Clare @clare_nomad_geo Papers for Mike Wolovick 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) Wolovick and Moore (2018): https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/2955/2018/ (TC paper, artificial sills in more detail) Hunt and Byers (2019): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11027-018-9831-y (crude engineering treatment of berms vs thin barriers) Frieler et al. (2016): https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/7/203/2016/ (pumping water up onto East Antarctica) Feldmann et al. (2019): https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw4132 (pumping water up onto West Antarctica)
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