image: An oceanographic mooring being recovered near the Totten Ice Shelf. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 16, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.R. Rintoul at University of Tasmania in Hobart, TAS, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Ocean heat drives rapid basal melt of the Totten Ice Shelf." view more
Credit: Steve Rintoul (CSIRO and ACE CRC)