The Life of an Iceberg

Harvard FAS

Towering icebergs, adrift in the polar oceans, have long captured our imagination: from the ominous iceberg that sank the Titanic to idioms of a large, hidden part, “the tip of the iceberg”. But are icebergs so mysterious? In this seminar we look at icebergs through the lenses of oceanographers, glaciologists, paleoclimatologists, artists and Arctic people. We will analyze satellite images and tagged polar bear data to understand how icebergs fertilize the ocean and provide unique ecological…