Live from Greenland

UCI glaciologist Eric Rignot broadcasted live from Greenland to answer questions about everything from ice sheets to climate change.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
UCI Physical Sciences Communications

Eric Rignot spends much of his time traversing the edges of glaciers in places like Greenland, working to understand how they're changing and melting in the face of a warming planet. 

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UCI

On Thursday April 22, 2021, Professor Eric Rignot, a glaciologist in the UCI Department of Earth System Science, broadcasted live from his field site in Greenland. Discover what it's like to be at a far-flung edge of the world, studying the effects of climate change. 

 

The Department of Earth System Science acknowledges our presence on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Acjachemen and Tongva peoples, who still hold strong cultural, spiritual and physical ties to this region.