Organization
Mallard Design Company
Email
timallard@msn.com

Location

Cle Elum , Washington 98922
United States

Science Specialties

air-sea-ice interactions, coastal engineering, heat transfer

Current Research

The continued loss of Arctic sea-ice albedo is a significant short-term gain in direct planetary heating, the quip that heat-gain over pre-industrial worth 25-years of USA power thus a source of radiant heat to the atmosphere. Observing where the sea-ice melts first and fills last in the Eastern Arctic Basin it's Bering Straits and seeing the need to preserve and forestall further loss needs a solution not dependent upon emissions, something direct. Current flow carries 10-Tw/winter, 20-Tw/summer of heat into the basin with freshwater flow from the Pacific, considered an "insulator" to warmer, deeper Atlantic water it yet melts the ice from below degrading the ice further. By reducing flow through Bering Strait 1/100th can allow this, shipping confined to shorelines only leveed off from the open sea as they lead melting, shipping can't be allowed in the open sea, it's critical to leave what ice is there alone. Then, in the process of damming it creating "ice-polders" using levees and such to prevent currents and winds from clearing the ice to stratify the confined water to -2C thus able to refreeze the bottom. The dam construction methods when that works are to create artificial atolls surrounding the methane flares now emerging on a large scale. These will circulate the cold down the sides unlike the ice-polders and cool the bottom with a convection current physically caused by the bubbles rising. Those are the timely goals using Dutch & open-sea dredge-n-place modified to 50m. known technologies to customize to the needs. The need for such a solution well known, this is an attempt to using geotechnical, coastal engineering with dam and levee building to create an ice rrefuge. That's the project oriented to global thermal awareness and the key issue to create ice earlier and keep it longer significantly to the formation again of multi-year ice in the Beaufort the metric,