Rob DeConto has been elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), among the most prestigious distinctions in the earth, climate and space sciences. He joins just 54 other individuals in the 2022 Class of Fellows. See more details of the award in the UMass news release.
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New Modeling Study Points to Antarctic Ice Sheet Contributing to Rapid Sea Level Rise
In a new paper, published today in Nature, Rob DeConto and colleagues describe how warming in excess of 2 C would drastically accelerate the pace of sea-level rise by 2100. The team used a physics-based model of the ice sheet to test Paris Agreement target temperature thresholds. Read more in the UMass news release and the open access journal paper.
New paper on Future climate response to Antarctic Ice Sheet melt caused by anthropogenic warming
In a new paper published in Science Advances, CSRC PhD student Shaina Sadai and Rob DeConto along with Alan Condron (Woods Hole) and Davis Pollard (Penn State) examined impacts of accelerated ice melt from the Antarctic Ice Sheet on future climate. Read the press release here.
Rob DeConto Taking Part in Historic UN Climate Policy Session
This week, representatives of 195 member governments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco with dozens of climate scientists who have prepared a draft “Summary for Policymakers” of their “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). ” Here read the UMass press release…