Abu Dhabi: New York University (NYU) has received a five-year grant of $2.1 million from the National Science Foundation to better understand the forces behind sea-level rise, a development that has concerned scientists in recent decades because it points to the possibility of global disruptions due to climate change.
The research, centred on the Thwaites Glacier that is part of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet, will be carried by NYU’s Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and NYU Abu Dhabi’s Centre for Global Sea Level Change both directed by David Holland, a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
