Hello John, Merry Christmas Eve to you and your research team. Thank you for your note. My question last night was attempting to ask if Dr. Kyle's Mount Erebus research has seen a seasonal increase in icequake-generated seismic activity picked up on the seismographs. My understanding is that icequake seismograph signals differ from volcanotectonic-generated seismic events (with a given point of "overlap" or connection in significantly large volcanotectonic events moving "very large chunks of ice"). John, I can picture your students and students all over the globe thinking about this same question: -With a bit of global warming (and pronounced Polar warming relative to lower latitudes), it seems that an upward trend in melting and therefore glacial movement/icequake activity on Ross Island and elsewhere on the Antarctic continent might be taking place and be detectable.
John, Thank You for sharing your Mount Erebus PolarTREC experience! Merry Christmas and Peace. Ben Smith Environmental Science teacher Peninsula High School California