Laura De Santis, Author at Eos

A helicopter hovers in the foreground as meltwater pours from a waterfall over the edge of an ice shelf.

The Uncertain Future of Antarctica’s Melting Ice

by Florence Colleoni, Tim Naish, Robert DeConto, Laura De Santis and Pippa L. Whitehouse 10 January 202210 January 2022

A new multidisciplinary, international research program aims to tackle one of the grand challenges in climate science: resolving the Antarctic Ice Sheet’s contribution to future sea level rise.

View of the Ross ice shelf from the OGS Explora, 9 February 2017.

Science Updates

Exploring the Unknown of the Ross Sea in Sea Ice–Free Conditions

by Laura De Santis, Florence Colleoni, A. Bergamasco, M. Rebesco, D. Accettella, V. Kovacevic, J. Gales, K. Sookwan and E. Olivo 11 October 201810 November 2022

A team of polar scientists aboard the OGS Explora, cruising in rare ice-free conditions, discovered new evidence of ancient and modern-day ice sheet sensitivity to climatic fluctuations.