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Jerry Mitrovica

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Lab.

Recognition for some risky research

Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research awards seven cutting-edge projects

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DateJuly 10, 2020July 13, 2020

Heavy seas come ashore in Massachusetts.

And now, land may be sinking

Study suggests mid-Atlantic is getting lower, which may exacerbate effects of sea-level rise

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DateFebruary 19, 2019July 3, 2019

Professor of Geophysics Jerry Mitrovica’s recent talk, “Ancient Eclipses, Roman Fish Tanks, and the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise,” examined the dynamics of sea level rise and debunked the arguments of climate-change deniers.

Ups and downs of sea level

Mitrovica speaks on scenarios connected to gravitational effect

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DateSeptember 23, 2015July 3, 2019

“What this paper shows is that sea-level acceleration over the past century has been greater than had been estimated by others,” said Eric Morrow, a recent Ph.D. graduate. “It’s a larger problem than we initially thought.”

Sea level correction

Increase has been more intense than previously understood, study says

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DateJanuary 14, 2015

“What we found in our study is that there was actually more ice present at the last glacial maximum than had previously been thought," said Jacqueline Austermann (left) with Natalya Gomez, both grad students working in the lab of geophysics Professor Jerry Mitrovica.

Popsicle Earth

At height of last ice age, more of planet was covered than previously thought, researchers say

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DateAugust 22, 2013May 15, 2019

Jerry X. Mitrovica (center), professor of geophysics, and Jessica Creveling illustrate their research using a model of the Earth inside the Geological Museum at Harvard. Ngai Ham Chan, a research assistant in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, joined them in the project.

Intelligent Earth

Harvard researchers explain how post-tilt planet finds its way back

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DateNovember 9, 2012April 16, 2019

Professor Jerry Mitrovica (left) worked with grad students Eric Morrow and Carling Hay on a method for determining sites of glacial melting.

Straight to the source

‘Sea level fingerprints’ suggest glacial melting sites

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DateMay 31, 2012February 28, 2019

Jerry Mitrovica (right), Peter Huybers (white shirt), and graduate student Natalya Gomez (center), whose research illuminates the relationship between sea ice and climate change, look at a slide of the West Antarctic ice sheet. The researchers theorize that if the sheet melts, it will have the seemingly contradictory effect of lowering sea levels nearby, actually stabilizing the sheet.

Ice sheet in peril? Gravity to the rescue

New research details how sea level drop could be opposite of expectations

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DateDecember 2, 2010March 21, 2019