How Can We Keep Track of Earth’s Invisible Water?

July 15, 2015

This week, Generation Anthropocene goes on a continent-hopping tour of the invisible water that drives planetary processes. Producer Mike Osborne kicks things off by chatting with Jenny Suckale, a Stanford geophysicist who has been tracking melting in Antarctica and how it may contribute to global sea level rise.

Finally, Osborne talks with Kaustubh Thirumulai from the University of Texas, Austin as part of an ongoing series, Convos With Kau. Thirumulai recently returned from India, where he was part of a team collecting rocks and sediment from the ocean floor around the Indian subcontinent. Their data should reveal more about the history of the South Asian monsoon and how this major player in the freshwater cycle is being affected by climate change.

Smithsonian.com, July 14, 2015

Featuring: Kaustubh Thirumalai, doctoral student, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences