Emilie Sinkler

Emilie Sinkler is a glaciologist researching ice flow, which is a key component of ice sheet models that help us understand the past a future climate of Earth. Her work relies on field studies using an acoustic televiewer, a borehole logging tool that records the shape and size of holes left by ice cores. Using these measurements, she calculates the flow within an ice sheet at these sites. Taking these values and comparing them with measurements of ice properties collected by other researchers, helps her determine the relationship between ice flow and properties like ice crystal size and orientation (its "fabric") and impurities.