Comprehensive Ice Sheets Gateway Helps Address Sea Level Rise

Nationwide team encompasses multiple agencies to create new -GHub- tool. Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) recently teamed with colleagues at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Tufts University to publish a special issue paper entitled Building a Glaciology Gateway to Unify a Community in the Concurrency and Computation journal. The article provides detailed information about the Glaciology Hub known as the GHub science gateway, which is powered by the HUBzero Platform at the San Diego Supercomputer Center ( SDSC ), located at UC San Diego. "We are happy to assist the GHub team in achieving their goals, especially given the critical nature and societal importance of melting ice sheets," said HUBzero Director Michael Zentner, who is also the director and principal investigator (PI) of the Science Gateways Community Institute and director of Sustainable Scientific Software at SDSC. "The multidisciplinary nature of ice sheet science is an ideal case of what the HUBzero platform is designed to support." As GHub co-PI Kristin Poinar, a geology professor at UB, explains, "Sea level rise is a grave concern, making ice melt rates an important area of study. The Greenland Ice Sheet in particular is melting and calving ice at an alarming rate—the equivalent of all of the water in Lake Erie every two years.