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Arête Glacier Initiative is currently accepting applications for the Advancing Research on Grounding Zone Processes 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
The Arête Glacier Initiative supports scientific research that improves understanding of how ice sheets interact with the ocean and bedrock at the grounding line, the critical transition zone where ice begins to float.This region is a key control point for ice sheet stability and future sea-level rise projections.
They encourage proposals that pursue research such as:
The formation and evolution of grounding zone wedges, including the roles of sediment freezing, compaction, and transport in building the bed features that pin glacier positions
Subglacial hydrology at the grounding zone, including the transition from subglacial drainage to open ocean, the inland intrusion of seawater, and the influence of freshwater discharge on melt rates
Ocean-driven melting near the grounding zone - its spatial and temporal variability, the role of salinity in driving enhanced melt, and the processes that set melt rate magnitudes
The mechanical coupling between ice flexure, viscous flow, and water pressure at and near the grounding zone
What sets the persistence of grounding lines on bed topographic features, and what triggers unpinning
Apply for Arête Glacier Initiative - Advancing Research on Grounding Zone Processes
