UKPN Wednesday Seminar: The Wurst Idea of All Time

This Wednesday the UK Polar Network welcomes Lisa Craw, who has been working on the 'Cryowurst', the successor of the less elongated 'Cryoegg'. It's an instrument that senses the movement of glaciers from the inside! The Cryowurst isn't just a wacky name - it gives fascinating insights and stories from within the surging glacier. Please join us online on Wednesday at 2pm GMT on Google Meet by registering at Eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1803106432879  

The Wurst idea of All Time: developing wireless instrumentation to study surging glaciers

Lisa Craw

Abstract: 

Glacier surges are one of the most difficult glaciological phenomena to study, not least because they tend to destroy instrumentation put in place to observe them. At Prifysgol Caerdydd/Cardiff University, we've been working to develop an instrument (the "cryowurst") that can capture the hydrology and dynamics of a surging glacier, and live to tell the tale. This is a work in progress, with plenty of mishaps along the way!

Lisa Craw is a research associate at Prifysgol Caerdydd (Cardiff University) working on novel instrumentation for investigating glacier and ice sheet dynamics. Her background is in structural geology, and her PhD focused on ice microstructure and rheology as well as numerical ice sheet modelling.

Register your attendance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1803106432879 

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