'Melting Ice and Rising Seas' team win 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prize

Dr Richard Levy and Associate Professor Nancy Bertler in the Ice Core Freezer at GNS Science

A group of more than 20 geologists, glaciologists, climate and social scientists from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, GNS Science and NIWA, led by the university’s Antarctic Research Centre Te Puna Pātiotio, make up the winning team, ‘Melting Ice and Rising Seas’, that has won the 2019 Prime Minister’s Science Prize.

The New Zealand scientists are behind the breakthrough discovery that Antarctica’s ice sheets melted rapidly in the past and could have a significant impact on global sea-level rise over the next 80 years.

“Sea-level rise has the potential to impact hundreds of millions of people and choices we make right now will set the pathways of climate change impacts for centuries to millennia to come. This prize recognises the dedicated work of a hugely committed team developed over decades,” - Associate Prof. Nancy Bertler

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