A Colorado University Boulder–led study, published recently in Nature Geoscience, investigates the retreat of Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier and highlights the role of the ice plain bed geometry in this process. In 2023, the glacier retreated at an unprecedented rate, losing a total of 8 kilometres of ice in just two months. Yulia Antropova, a PhD student at WIRL, conducted the analysis of the airborne radar data for this study based on the technique she developed. It has been profiled in the BBC, on CNN and the Washington Post.