Alison (Ali) Banwell is a glaciologist and Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), part of CU Boulder. Her research focuses on monitoring and quantifying glacier, ice-sheet, and ice-shelf melt, hydrology and dynamics using satellite remote-sensing, fieldwork, and modeling. She received her Ph.D. in Glaciology from the University of Cambridge, and her B.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has led many field expeditions in Antarctica and has also conducted fieldwork on the Greenland Ice Sheet, Svalbard, and the Himalayas.  

Alison will present field and satellite-based observations and model analysis, focusing on the north George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, which reveal insights into the role of surface meltwater on ice-shelf dynamics such as flexure and fracture. 

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