Two BGSU students and their professor will spend much of spring semester in Antarctica studying undersea volcanoes.

Aside from the obvious problems of melting Antarctic ice, this problem of hidden volcanoes becoming active could spell disaster for thousands.

Amelia Shevenell, PhD, Associate Professor, University of South Florida, is co-lead author of a study published in Nature that concludes the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is more unstable than realized.

A team of scientists from Bowling Green State University are currently en route to Antarctica in search of groundbreaking new data that could play a key role in the future of climate research.