Polar scientist describes changes in global ice

A past president of the International Glaciological Society and chair of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative will speak at the final Grand Valley State University International Polar Year lecture.

“Discovery: The Warming & Waking of the Polar Ice,” will feature Robert Bindschadler, a chief scientist of NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, senior fellow of the Goddard Space Flight Center and an active Antarctic researcher for the past 25 years.

His lecture, on March 13, at 7p.m. in the Loutit 102 Lecture Hall, Allendale Campus, is free and appropriate for adults and students in middle school through college. Refreshments will follow the lecture. Parking will be available in lot F after 6:30 p.m. This event is sponsored by Grand Valley's Regional Math and Science Center, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Michigan Space Grant Consortium.

Bindschadler has participated in numerous expeditions to Antarctica as well other glaciers and ice caps around the world. He has developed numerous applications of remote sensing data for glaciological research and has published more than 140 scientific papers and articles.

For more information visit www.gvsu.edu/ipy , or call (616) 331-2267.