Thawing Arctic riverbeds may erode up to 10 times faster than unfrozen ground
Sometimes science throws up the unexpected.
Sometimes science throws up the unexpected.
The short version
- When a team of researchers set out to model river erosion in Canada's High Arctic, they did not expect the findings to defy common sense.
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What happened
"We literally expected to see the opposite of what we ended up seeing," says Jonas Eschenfelder, a Ph.D. candidate in Simon Fraser University's School of Environmental Science. "We reran the experiments a whole bunch of times until my supervisor actually believed the results." For his supervisor, Shawn Chartrand, the findings ran counter to basic science.
Why it matters
"We saw the results, we looked at each other, we said, 'This can't be correct,'" says Chartrand, an assistant professor in the School of Environmental Science.
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