UC student researcher uses satellite imagery to calculate
ice flow velocity in the coldest place on Earth.
University of Cincinnati student Shujie Wang has discovered
that a good way to monitor the environmental health of Antarctica is to go with
the flow – the ice flow, that is.
It’s an important parameter to track because as Antarctica’s
health goes, so goes the world’s.
“The ice sheet in Antarctica is the largest fresh water
reservoir on Earth, and if it were totally melted, the sea level would rise by
more than 60 meters. So it is quite important to measure the ice mass loss
there,” says Wang, a doctoral student in geography in UC’s McMicken College of
Arts & Sciences.