SEG Gravity and Magnetics Luncheon

Potential Fields for Polar Problems

Wednesday, 28 August
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. George R. Brown Convention Center, Level 3, Room 330

Professor Tinto will show the importance of mapping seafloor bathymetry and subglacial geology for understanding past and future behavior of Earth’s great ice sheets. With results from major aerogeophysical programs, she will show how potential fields data have been used to fill critical gaps in our knowledge of polar regions, and what questions remain unanswered.

Fee: $75

Kirsty Tinto is a Lamont Associate Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Her research focuses on the interactions between polar ice and oceans and their underlying topography and geology. She has over two decades of experience in polar fieldwork, including leading the potential fields instrument team for NASA’s Operation IceBridge flying over Greenland and Antarctica and the interdisciplinary NSF-funded Rosetta-Ice surveys based from McMurdo Station Antarctica. She holds a Master of Earth Sciences degree from Oxford University, UK and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Kirsty Tinto, Associate Research Professor, Marine and Polar Geophysics, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory