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Joanna Millstein sitting on the edge of an icy crevasse

Spotlight: Sep 8, 2022

EAPS PhD student Joanna Millstein is studying glacier dynamics to clarify how melting ice sheets will affect the planet. “There’s huge uncertainty in all sea-level-rise predictions,” she says. “We’ve got to figure out how to narrow the error bars.”

Sep 8, 2022

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