Dr Kate Selway

How much is solid Earth deformation in Greenland affecting sea level rise estimates?

As ice mass is lost from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the Earth rebounds in a process called Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA). It is necessary to know the magnitude of this rebound in order to make accurate estimates of current ice loss and future sea level rise. I will present new results from magnetotelluric field surveys from the Greenland Ice Sheet designed to constrain Greenland’s mantle viscosity and improve GIA models. I will also discuss the insights I have gained into leadership, mentoring and career development challenges and opportunities that I have gained through research projects such as this.

Biography

Dr Kate Selway is a geophysicist interested in pulling together all available strands of data to understand the deep Earth. Her current research combines magnetotellurics, seismics and geochemistry to model mantle composition and viscosity. Kate gained her PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2007 and subsequently worked in research positions at Yale, Columbia (LDEO) and the University of Oslo. She is currently an ARC Future Fellow based at Macquarie University.