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Greenland Ice Sheet Researcher
About Anna Larsen
In 2019, Anna Larsen led the first autonomous drone survey over the Store Glacier’s shear margins, terrain too crevassed and unstable for ground teams, capturing millimeter-precision ice deformation data that revealed how basal meltwater lubrication accelerates ice flow during summer pulses. Her work redefined the role of subglacial hydrology in Greenland’s mass loss, shifting modeling assumptions from steady-state drainage to transient, pressure-driven bursts. Born and raised in Ilulissat, she integrates Inuit place-based knowledge of ice behavior, like the seasonal cracking patterns locals call 'siku qinngua', into her geophysical models, not as anecdote but as calibration data. She co-developed the Qaanaaq Ice Core Archive, preserving stratigraphic records from rapidly thinning northern ice caps before they vanish. Her field journals, written in Kalaallisut and English, document not just melt rates but the changing soundscape of calving fronts, how acoustic signatures shift as ice density and fracture geometry evolve under warming.
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- “What did your 2019 drone survey over Store Glacier reveal about summer meltwater timing?”
- “How do Inuit observations of 'siku qinngua' inform your ice deformation models?”
- “Why did you prioritize archiving ice cores from Qaanaaq over more accessible sites?”
- “What acoustic changes in calving fronts have you tracked since 2016?”