Out now, ‘The operation to survey sea ice – from land, sky and satellite’ – in which Nadia speaks to the team working to calibrate sea ice measuring satellites with a exacting flying campaign and drilling on the sea ice. Iceworld is available on your preferred podcast app.
Welcome to Antarctica. What’s it like living and working in one of the most extreme environments in the world?
Recorded at Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, the team talk extreme living, climate science, expeditions and becoming a community. From polar scientists to plumbers, these are interviews with ordinary people who are doing extraordinary jobs with British Antarctic Survey.
Iceworld is hosted and recorded by Nadia Frontier, and produced in partnership with Boffin Media.
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Flying low over ice in a timed dance with satellites. Digging 52m of ice cores out on the frozen sea. This is a team tackling Antarctica’s sea ice question from every angle!
In this group interview, teams from the DEFIANT and CRYOVEX projects talk about their epic campaign to ‘ground-truth’ the data collected from two important satellites that monitor Antarctic sea ice – ESA’s CryoSat-2 and NASA’s ICESat-2. This calibration work makes sure we know more about how the thickness of Antarctica’s sea ice – helping us predict how climate changes will affect ocean circulation and ecology.
Nadia Frontier is joined by guest co-host Matt Hughes, and members of the project team Andy Shepherd, Inès Otosaka, Sebastian Simonsen, Isobel Lawrence and Gaëlle Veyssière, and BAS’ Head of Airborne Survey Technology, Carl Robinson.
Previous episodes
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S4 E2. Evolving in the cold with Professor Melody Clark and Dr Simon Morley |
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S4 E1. Piloting flights from Canada to Antarctica, with Vicky Auld and Olly Smith |
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S3 E14. The life Antarctic, with marine biologist Nadia Frontier |
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S3 E13. Ash Shinn is looking after your Antarctic research station |
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S3 E12. Yes, diving in Antarctica is COLD – with Jack Gordon and Mike Lindsell |
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S3 Ep 11. Fixing Skidoos in Antarctica with Matthew McPherson |
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Bonus episode. Happy Midwinter, from King Edward Point Research Station |
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S3 Ep 10. Engineers of Antarctica, with Jonathan Witherstone & Jaskiran Nagi |
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Bonus episode. Fossil hunting and managing Antarctic mud, with the Seymour Island expedition team |
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S3 Ep 9. Watching wild weather in Antarctica, with Jo Cole |
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S3 Ep 8. From Arran to Antarctica with Niall Macleod |
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S3 Ep 7. Leading polar expeditions, with Ed Luke and Matthew Shepherd |
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Bonus episode. Leadership and a life on the ice, with Professor Dame Jane Francis |
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S3 Ep 6. Chefs of Antarctica, with Sadhbh Moore and Katy Rumm |
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S3 Ep5. Ryan Mathews on diving and exploring in Antarctic Winter |
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S3 Ep4. Stu McManus on his journey to Antarctica as an electrician |
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Bonus episode. A polar voyage into the New Year, with Captain Matt Neill and Jo Johnson |
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Bonus episode. It’s Christmas in Antarctica, with Aurelia Reichardt, Matt Hughes & Jo Cole |
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S3 Ep3. Joe Clay on small community living, and keeping the power on in Antarctica |
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S3 Ep2. Allie Clement on scientific fishing and life as an Marine Assistant in Antarctica |
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S3 Ep1. Louis Day on boating in Antarctica and navigating ice |
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S2. Ep3. Crossing the Southern Ocean |
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S2. Ep2. Voyaging to South Georgia, with whales |
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S2 Ep1. How did people get to Antarctica in a pandemic? |