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❄️ Climate researcher Petra Langebroek and her colleagues work to get a better understanding of how the Antarctic Ice Sheet will evolve in the future. – Until 20 years ago or so, we thought that the Antarctic Ice Sheet would not be affected much by global climate warming, but now we see more and more changes. We know now that the ice sheet can cross a tipping point, where it suddenly becomes much more unstable. This would cause large ice loss, and therefore sea level rise, Petra says. Many processes influence the ice sheet stability, and the polar community is working hard on understanding these processes. The work goes across borders, and Petra was recently in Germany visiting PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research discussing projects where international collaboration is important. – The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are changing more rapidly than we ever thought. Getting a grip on the relevant processes and the impacts of these changes, is essential for future sea level projections. This is too large a task for one research institute or country. Luckily, the polar community works on these issues together, as exemplified by our NORCE collaboration with PIK and AWI, leading polar institutes in Germany, Petra says. Photos: Malin Ödalen and Petra at work in Potsdam. Øyvind Paasche and Petra from NORCE and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research visiting Malin and Torsten Albrecht at PIK. Petra in Brussels at the last meeting of the EU project TiPACCs, where PIK was one of the partners. 📷 Andreas R. Graven. Petra Langebroek presenting collaborative polar projects at PIK.