Rob DeConto and teams from Columbia, Penn State and the University at Buffalo will receive $3 million in research funds and $4 million for field operations to drill through the Greenland Ice Sheet and into the bedrock below, where they will be able to evaluate how long it has been since the last ice sheet retreated from the continent. Read the news release here.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a report on coastal flooding in the U.S. caused by rising seas due to the warming climate. The CSRC’s Rob DeConto commented in an article in the Boston Globe on high tide flooding and the report. “This problem isn’t going away …. the combination of ongoing sea-level rise and increasing tidal range in the 2030s will conspire to really increase the number of these nuisance flood events.”