Primary Convener:
Douglas MacAyeal, University of Chicago

Convener:
Michael Wolovick, Alfred Wegener Institute

Early Career Convener:
Chang Hyeon Park,

Chair:
Douglas MacAyeal, University of Chicago
Michael Wolovick, Alfred Wegener Institute

This session welcomes research that explores the potential effectiveness, or lack thereof, of active intervention techniques for slowing, preventing, or reversing the retreat of ice masses at all scales, from continental ice sheets to cirque glaciers. Possible intervention techniques include, but are not limited to: methods for limiting ice melt or reducing calving at the ocean boundary; methods for limiting sliding at the basal boundary; and methods for increasing mass deposition or reducing ablation at the sub-aerial boundary. Research that explores the potential impact of planetary-scale climate interventions (such as Carbon Dioxide Removal or Solar Radiation Management) on ice sheets and glaciers is welcome too. We welcome numerical, theoretical, observational, or experimental physical science and engineering research aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of such interventions, as well as research focused on the legal, cultural, or economic impacts thereof. Submissions from both supporters and opponents of interventions are encouraged.

Index Terms
0720 Glaciers
0726 Ice sheets
0760 Engineering
1621 Cryospheric change

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Alternate Session Formats:
Poster Only Session