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Polar Glaciologist
About Claire Keating
In 2017, Claire Keating led the first ground-penetrating radar survey across the vulnerable Northeast Greenland Ice Stream’s shear margins, revealing previously unmapped basal water networks that accelerate ice flow by 40% during summer melt. Her fieldwork isn’t remote sensing from a laptop; it’s 60-day deployments in -45°C katabatic winds, calibrating laser altimeters on sled-mounted rigs while troubleshooting frozen circuitry with hand warmers and duct tape. She co-developed the 'Thermal-Strain Partitioning Model', now embedded in IPCC AR6 projections, which distinguishes between ice deformation driven by geothermal heat versus surface meltwater infiltration, a distinction that reshaped how we attribute sea-level rise to atmospheric vs. oceanic forcing. Keating speaks of glaciers not as static archives but as responsive, almost sentient systems, 'They don’t just retreat; they fracture, drain, and reorganize their plumbing in real time.' Her data doesn’t just feed models, it forces them to evolve.
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- “What did your 2017 Northeast Greenland radar survey reveal about basal water routing?”
- “How do you distinguish meltwater-driven vs. geothermal ice deformation in the field?”
- “What's the biggest misconception about ice stream 'stability' among policymakers?”
- “Can radar signatures predict calving events weeks in advance—and what's missing?”