This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $355,024, effective July 15, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will support a collaborative research project to reconstruct the collapse of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in western Canada since the last ice age. The project aims to determine the timeline and pace of the ice sheet's disappearance by generating geologic dating of rock samples collected across the region, which will be combined with computer modeling to produce a 3-D reconstruction. This work is intended to provide key insights into how large ice sheets respond to climate changes, which can help improve models used to project future sea level rise from the melting of ice sheets like Greenland's. The project will involve an international team of researchers from the U.S., U.K., and Canada, and plans to engage the public through a popular website and potential media coverage.
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