Icy dissolution and patterns in the cryosphere

There are few components of Earth's surface that have shaped its evolution more than ice. Spanning length scales from rivers to mountain glaciers, tidewater fjords, and continental ice sheets, the dissolution of ice is happening in real-time as our atmosphere and ocean warms. This talk will review some of the fascinating features and physics of ice dissolution and ablation, and then focus on the ice-ocean boundary in both Greenland and Antarctica, where kilometer-scale icebergs calve, break, melt, and capsize prior to their demise in the open ocean.