{"id":8048,"date":"2023-01-11T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2023-01-11T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T18:49:09","slug":"study-co-authored-by-une-researcher-finds-80-of-worlds-glaciers-could-disappear-by-2100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/study-co-authored-by-une-researcher-finds-80-of-worlds-glaciers-could-disappear-by-2100\/","title":{"rendered":"Study co-authored by UNE researcher finds 80% of world&#8217;s glaciers could disappear by 2100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The international study found that the world could lose as much as 41% of its total glacier mass this century, amounting to 80% of the world&#8217;s total glaciers by number, if ambitious climate mitigation efforts are not met.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A University of New England researcher is part of a team that has, for the first time, shown how rapidly glaciers can lose mass based on various future development and carbon emission scenarios and found that \u2014&nbsp;in the worst-case scenario \u2014 two out of three of the world\u2019s glaciers could melt into the sea within the next century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will Kochtitzky, Ph.D., visiting assistant teaching professor of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.une.edu\/cas\/environmental\/undergraduate\/minor-geographic-information-systems\">geographic information systems (GIS)<\/a>&nbsp;within the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.une.edu\/cas\/schools\/marine-environmental\">School of Marine and Environmental Programs<\/a>, is an author on the groundbreaking study,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abo1324\">&#8220;Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters,&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;published in Science on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The international effort, led by David Rounce, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, shows that the world could lose as much as 41% of its total glacier mass this century\u2014or as little as 26% \u2014 depending on today\u2019s climate change mitigation efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abo1324\">READ THE FULL PUBLICATION IN SCIENCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international study found that the world could lose as much as 41% of its total &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-and-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8049,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions\/8049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}