Dr. Luke Trusel, assistant professor in the Department of Geology within Rowan’s School of Earth & Environment, is a co-author of two papers that ran in the journal Nature Climate Change. Trusel is a glaciologist and climate scientist whose research analyzes the polar regions via satellite observations, ice cores and climate models. The two papers highlight the impacts of rising global temperatures, which may cause the ice sheets to soon enter a phase of irreversible retreat and raise global sea levels for hundreds to thousands of years. Trusel noted that his current research, and that of the international scientific community,...