ICEQUAKES with Celeste Labedz

Dr. Labedz stands on an Alaskan glacier wearing a white helmet over a baseball cap, black snowpants, and a blue long-sleeved top with a blue chiffon cape flowing behind her, evoking Elsa from Frozen.

Glaciers: Where are they? What are they made of? What happens when chunks splinter off into the sea? There are ICEQUAKES? CalTech Cryoseismologist Celeste Labedz sometimes wears a cape with her snowpants and spends part of her career shooting explosions into giant chunks of ice and recording the seismic activity, analyzing the rivers that flow through glaciers, and keeping tabs on glacial melt.

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A donation went to the International Association for Geoscience Diversity

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