The accelerating Arctic and Antarctic glacial melts will affect sea levels and land masses in different areas of the globe unevenly – and often far from the polar regions. Natalya Gomez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at McGill University discusses the impacts of the glacial melts. Image: [Belmont Media Center](https://scienceforthepublic.org/earth/the-long-reach-of-polar-glacial-melts)
**Dr. Natalya Gomez** is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at McGill Univeristy. She is also a member of the McGill Space Institute and Research Chair in the Geodynamics of Ice Sheet - Sea Level Interactions. Her research works at the intersection between solid Earth geophysics and climate change science, studying the interactions between the solid Earth and climate systems.