exploring under the ice

One of our lecturers Dr Remy Veness has just returned from exciting fieldwork on the Hofsjökull ice cap in the Highlands of Iceland.

His work is part of an ongoing collaboration between Sheffield Hallam and the University of Iceland looking to better understand how drumlins form. Drumlins are ridges of sediment beneath ice sheets that can tell us the direction of past ice flow.

Remy and the team have been using one of Sheffield Hallam's ground penetrating radars, an instrument that can see below the ice. The radar is towed across the ice behind a snow mobile, generating data that creates a detailed map of the bed of the glacier.

After a week of perfect weather, the team have collected one of the largest datasets of its kind. They hope to use this data to constrain computer models of ice sheets, to improve our understanding of future climate change.

Feel like you're there! Watch this drone video of Dr. Veness' fieldwork