Bethan Davies

Bethan Davies is a glacial geologist with a focus on the interaction between glaciers and climate over multiple timescales. She specializes in ice-sheet and glacier reconstruction in temperate and high latitudes, using field studies, dating methods, remote sensing data sets, and numerical modeling to study ice-sheet history. Davies' research interests are centered on the Antarctic Peninsula, the Patagonian Ice Sheet, and the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. From 2014 to 2022, she held positions at Royal Holloway University of London before joining Newcastle University as a professor in 2024. Her work contributes to understanding glacial processes at the ice-bed interface and the impacts of climate change on ice sheets.

Biography:  https://theconversation.com/profiles/bethan-davies-906475

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The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

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Conflicts of Interest

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Contradictions

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  • Rates of glacier area shrinkage were five times faster from 2015 to 2019 than they had been from 1948 to 1979.
  • Total ice loss across the Juneau icefield from 1770 to 2020 was equal to almost one-quarter of the original ice volume.

Deceptions

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Recent Articles

Alaska's Top-Heavy Juneau Icefield: Melting 4.6 Times Faster, Losing 68 Glaciers Since 2005

Alaska's Top-Heavy Juneau Icefield: Melting 4.6 Times Faster, Losing 68 Glaciers Since 2005

Broke On: Saturday, 06 July 2024 Alaska's Juneau icefield, a massive interconnected glacier system near Juneau, is melting at an unprecedented rate, with one larger glacier completely disappearing and 64 others vanishing between 2005 and 2019. This top-heavy icefield's accelerated melt contributes significantly to global sea-level rise, projected to reach approximately one quarter of the total increase by 2100 AD. The melting trend is driven by rising temperatures linked to human-induced climate change.