The Sound of Melting Glaciers with Dr Hari Vishnu

14 October 2023 (Sat) | 2.30pm - 3.30pm
Can the sound of melting glaciers predict sea level rise that is accelerated by global warming? The Arctic may be seen as geographically isolated from the rest of the world, yet its thinning sea ice is connected to melting glaciers in the Andes and the Himalayas as well as the flooding of low-lying island states.
Oceanography researcher Dr Hari Vishnu shared about the research he has been carrying out on the acoustics of melting glaciers, and how this allows countries like Singapore to come up with measures to adapt to future sea level rise.
About Exploring Nature’s Tapestry (16 Sep - 29 Oct 2023)
The Sound of Melting Glaciers with Dr Hari Vishnu was organised as part of the Exploring Nature’s Tapestry closing programmes for Sensory Odyssey: Into the Heart of Our Living World exhibition, in conjunction with the season of Sustainable Futures at ArtScience Museum.
Through a series of guided nature walks and engaging talks, Exploring Nature’s Tapestry engaged with the passionate biodiversity experts and conservation advocates featured in Sensory Odyssey, inviting us to reconnect deeply with nature and explore ways that we can safeguard the future of our ecosystems and our humanity.
Visitors embraced the marvels and mysteries of our natural world in guided walks in our beloved green spaces with Biogirl MJ (Co-founder and Host of science channel Just Keep Thinking) and Dr Leong Tzi Ming (Naturalist and Nature Guide), got up close with local bees at Bee Amazed Garden with John Chong (Beekeeper and Educator) and found out why honeybees are critical to our food sources; and discovered the fascinating species that call our local nature reserves home in talks by Dr Shawn Kaihekulani Yamauchi Lum (Tropical Rainforest Ecologist and Senior Lecturer at NTU Asian School of the Environment); and learnt how the acoustics of melting glaciers can help more accurately predict sea level rise in a talk by Dr Hari Vishnu (Oceanography Researcher and Senior Research Fellow at NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute).
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