By implementing seismic technology, researchers found a way to track for the first time water flow through the inside of ocean-bound glaciers.
“Meltwater from Glaciers ending on dry land is easy to track,” says Timothy Bartholomaus, postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, expaining that it is done by measuring how much water flows from the glaciers into meltwater rivers. “But most of the world’s biggest glaciers end in the ocean, making their melt previously impossible to determine,” he says.