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How Do We Get the Right Information to Policymakers?

A lot of my research focuses around understanding where ice used to be and how it may be retreated or decayed away in the past. The reason that we want to do all this now is because as our climate is warming we are looking at trying to understand how an ice sheet might respond to either a warmer atmosphere or warm waters getting close to them. So what we can do if we take a sample of the sediments for example we can tell things like did the ice decay away by melting into actual melt water that went into the oceans? We can actually tell that from the sediments that we recover from the sea floor. It's really important to pass this on to the younger generation now coming

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