DATA AS ART #10
Ice layers Radio waves can be transmitted down through an ice sheet, ice stream or glacier and are reflected off the internal layers in the ice as well as off …
Glacier flow
Weddell Sea ice sheet and climate
In the south of the Weddell Sea lies the Ronne and Filchner Ice Shelves. During the coldest part of the last glacial period about 25,000 years ago, the ice in …
Ocean-driven ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica
By exploiting advances in ice sheet modelling, and new Antarctic-wide datasets, this project aims to predict how far and how fast the observed ocean-driven thinning of floating ice shelves will …
Dating and modelling fast ice-sheet grounding-line retreat in Antarctica
This project aims to exploit the peculiar way in which ice flows to provide new constraints on the retreat of the grounding line – the line that separates grounded ice …
Ice Sheet Modelling
The research of the ice sheet modelling group focuses on integrating observational data with dynamical models that describe how the ice flows in order to improve our representation of how …
Arctic marine geophysics
This research focuses on investigating the glacial histories of Arctic ice sheets and ice caps using the marine geological record preserved on continental margins. By reconstructing past ice sheets, their …
BEAMISH: Basal Conditions on Rutford Ice Stream
The polar ice sheets play a major role in controlling Earth’s sea level and climate, but our understanding of their history and motion is poor. The biggest uncertainty in predicting …
ANiSEED – AmuNdsen Sea Embayment Exposure Dating
This project will reconstruct millennial-scale ice sheet change in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica, using high-precision exposure dating.
Filchner Ice Shelf System, Antarctica
Understanding the contribution that polar ice sheets make to global sea-level rise is recognised internationally as urgent. The mission of this five-year project is to capture new observations and data …
Anomalously high geothermal flux near the South Pole
15 November, 2018
Basal freeze-on generates complex ice-sheet stratigraphy
7 November, 2018
Intense winter surface melt on an Antarctic ice shelf
1 August, 2018
How dynamic are ice-stream beds?
4 May, 2018
The far reach of ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica
1 January, 2018
Subglacial access and investigation
1 January, 2018
Polar sea ice as a barometer and driver of change
1 January, 2018
The Response of Ice Sheets to Climate Variability
1 December, 2017
Heat flux distribution of Antarctica unveiled
28 November, 2017
Diverse landscapes beneath Pine Island Glacier influence ice flow
20 November, 2017
The spatial structure of the 128 ka Antarctic sea ice minimum
16 November, 2017
Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years
10 November, 2017
Ice-sheet and glacier modelling
1 November, 2017
Impacts of the Larsen-C Ice Shelf calving event
1 August, 2017
Regional climate of the Larsen B embayment 1980–2014
1 August, 2017
Solve Antarctica’s sea-ice puzzle
19 July, 2017
A stochastic dynamical model of Arctic sea ice
1 July, 2017
Firn Model Intercomparison Experiment (FirnMICE)
1 June, 2017
Glacial meltwater identification in the Amundsen Sea
20 April, 2017
Tidal modulation of ice shelf buttressing stresses
1 April, 2017
Oceanography and sea ice in the Southern Ocean
1 March, 2017
Widespread Antarctic glaciation during the Late Eocene
1 January, 2017
Bed conditions of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica
1 January, 2017
Radar observations of Arctic ice
1 January, 2017
Sensitivity of Pine Island Glacier to observed ocean forcing
28 October, 2016
Modeling Ice Shelf/Ocean Interaction in Antarctica: A Review
1 October, 2016
How warm was Greenland during the last interglacial period?
29 September, 2016
Journey of an Arctic ice island
1 June, 2016
Tidal controls on the flow of ice streams
16 May, 2016
Interglacials of the last 800,000 years
1 March, 2016
Introduction: an atlas of submarine glacial landforms
1 January, 2016
Nordvestfjord: a major East Greenland fjord system
1 January, 2016
Crescentic scours on palaeo-ice stream beds
1 January, 2016
Mapping submarine glacial landforms using acoustic methods
1 January, 2016
Bedrock channels in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica
1 January, 2016
Stratified glacimarine basin-fills in West Greenland fjords
1 January, 2016
Debris-flow deposits on the West Antarctic continental slope
1 January, 2016
Glacial melt under a porous debris layer
1 September, 2015
Wind-driven upwelling around grounded tabular icebergs
1 August, 2015
Recent changes in Antarctic sea ice
1 July, 2015
Chaotic dynamics of a glaciohydraulic model
1 June, 2015
Foehn jets over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1 April, 2015
Cryosphere: Entry beneath ice
16 March, 2015
Holocene glacier fluctuations
1 March, 2015
Modelling channelized surface drainage of supraglacial lakes
1 February, 2015
The BAS ice shelf hot water drill: design, methods and tools
1 November, 2014
Greenland deglaciation puzzles
5 September, 2014
Measuring turbulent dissipation rates beneath an Antarctic ice shelf
1 September, 2014
Basal terraces on melting ice shelves
16 August, 2014
Bryozoa
1 August, 2014
Environmental setting
1 August, 2014
The seasonality of Antarctic sea ice trends
28 June, 2014
How old is the ice beneath Dome A, Antarctica?
27 June, 2014
A fluid situation
1 May, 2014
The subglacial geology of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica
16 April, 2014
Geothermal activity helps life survive glacial cycles
15 April, 2014
Rapid thinning of Pine Island Glacier in the early Holocene
21 February, 2014
Modelling ice-ocean interaction in ice shelf crevasses
1 February, 2014
Ice-Ocean Interactions in North West Greenland
1 January, 2014
The effect of basal channels on oceanic ice-shelf melting
1 December, 2013
A novel and low cost sea ice mass balance buoy
1 November, 2013
Exploration of a simple model for ice ages
1 November, 2013
A review of sea ice proxy information from polar ice cores
1 November, 2013
Pine Island Glacier ice shelf melt distributed at kilometre scales
26 September, 2013
Getz Ice Shelf melting response to changes in ocean forcing
1 September, 2013
East Antarctica’s Achilles heel
21 July, 2013
Ice sheets and nitrogen
5 July, 2013
Ice core methods, conductivity studies
19 June, 2013
Uncertain sea levels (Letter)
15 June, 2013
Sustained retreat of the Pine Island Glacier
28 May, 2013
Antarctica: global science from a frozen continent
4 April, 2013
BEDMAP2: Bedrock topography of Antarctica
15 March, 2013
Sea level variations during the last interglacial
1 March, 2013
Beyond point measurements: sea ice floes characterized in 3-D
12 February, 2013
Wintertime water mass modification near an Antarctic ice front
1 February, 2013
Observations: Cryosphere
1 January, 2013
A reconciled estimate of ice sheet mass balance
19 December, 2012
Biological processes on glacier and ice sheet surfaces
18 December, 2012
Ice-stream stability on a reverse bed slope
18 December, 2012
Sea Ice Proxy Working Group (SIP)
1 December, 2012
Iodine emissions from the sea ice of the Weddell Sea
27 November, 2012
Can we predict the duration of an interglacial?
1 January, 2012
The Amundsen Sea and the Antarctic Ice Sheet
1 January, 2012
Wind-driven trends in Antarctic sea-ice drift
1 January, 2012
Ice-shelf basal channels in a coupled ice/ocean model
1 January, 2012
Icebergs and sea ice
1 January, 2012
Antarctic Peninsula. A visitor’s guide
1 January, 2012
Antarctic topography at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary
1 January, 2012
Frequency response of ice streams
1 January, 2012
Albedo of the ice covered Weddell and Bellingshausen Seas
1 January, 2012
The ice sheet
1 January, 2012
Subglacial lakes
1 January, 2012
Rock debris in an Antarctic ice shelf
1 January, 2012
Recent mass changes of glaciers in the Russian High Arctic
1 January, 2012
Antarctic palaeo-ice streams
1 January, 2012
Insignificant change in Antarctic snowmelt volume since 1979
1 January, 2012
The stability of grounding lines on retrograde slopes
1 January, 2012
A wireless subglacial probe for deep ice applications
1 January, 2012
Detection and attribution of Antarctic climate change
1 January, 2012
The consolidation and bond strength of rafted sea ice
1 January, 2012
Sensitivity of Pliocene ice sheets to orbital forcing
15 August, 2011
Inverse methods in glaciology
1 January, 2011
Present weather-sensor tests for measuring drifting snow
1 January, 2011
Methane and monsoons
1 January, 2011
Potential seaways across West Antarctica
1 January, 2011
The basal roughness of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica
1 January, 2011
Kinematic waves in polar firn stratigraphy
1 January, 2011
A rate and state friction law for saline ice
1 January, 2011
The air content of Larsen Ice Shelf
1 January, 2011
The Mid-Brunhes Event and West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability
1 January, 2011
Antarctic ice-shelf thickness from satellite radar altimetry
1 January, 2011
The Pleistocene glaciations of the North Sea Basin
1 January, 2011
Impact of bedrock description on modeling ice sheet dynamics
1 January, 2011
The future of ocean drilling in the Southern Ocean
1 January, 2010
Searching for the oldest ice
1 January, 2010
Palaeoclimate Southern westerlies and CO2
1 January, 2010
Faunal evidence for a late quaternary trans-Antarctic Seaway
1 January, 2010
A model for the consolidation of rafted sea ice
1 January, 2010
Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic
1 January, 2010
EPICA Dome C record of glacial and interglacial intensities
1 January, 2010
A numerical study of glacier advance over deforming till
1 January, 2010
Climate change: warm bath for an ice sheet
1 January, 2010
Air-Ice-Chemical Interactions (AICI)
1 January, 2009
Review. Antarctic climate change and the environment
1 January, 2009
The memory of polar ocean
1 January, 2009
Warming on Antarctica’s western fringes
1 January, 2009
Generalized Maxwell Love numbers
1 January, 2009
Sea-ice proxies in Antarctic ice cores
1 January, 2009
Validation of three global ocean models in the Weddell Sea
1 January, 2009
The Arctic cryosphere in the Mid-Pliocene and the future
1 January, 2009
Freshwater transport at Fimbulisen, Antarctica
1 January, 2009
Contrasting climate change in the two polar regions
1 January, 2009
Ice cores and astronauts
1 January, 2009
Antarctic climate change – why it matters to us
1 January, 2008
Analysis of GPS data from an Antarctic ice stream
1 January, 2008
The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
1 January, 2008
The past 800 ka viewed through Antarctic ice cores
1 January, 2008
Cool chemistry
1 January, 2008
Ancient air in an Antarctic ice core
1 January, 2008
Ice/ocean interactions: urgent questions for AUVs
1 January, 2008
Ice scour disturbance in Antarctic waters
1 January, 2008
The heat is on
1 January, 2008
Flow stripes, GPR stratigraphy and RADARSAT imagery
1 January, 2008
Sat nav
1 January, 2008
Ice core analysis and dating techniques
1 January, 2007
Frozen in time: the chemistry of polar ice cores
1 January, 2007
The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core
1 January, 2007
Did ice streams shape the largest channels on Mars?
1 January, 2007
Use of shear waves to measure Poisson’s ratio in polar firn
1 January, 2007
The ice-rock interface
1 January, 2007
Polar meltdown
1 January, 2007
Antarctic ice sheet: definitions and description
1 January, 2007
West Antarctic links to sea level estimation
1 January, 2007
Mass balance of Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic
1 January, 2007
Antarctic Peninsula, glaciology of
1 January, 2007
Toward a new generation of ice sheet models
1 January, 2007
Melting of floating ice and sea level rise
1 January, 2007
Ice shelves
1 January, 2007
Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 2007
Tides and the flow of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica
1 January, 2007
A continuum model of melt pond evolution on Arctic sea ice
1 January, 2007
An Antarctic assessment of IPCC AR4 coupled models
1 January, 2007
European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA)
1 January, 2006
The Antarctic ice sheet
1 January, 2006
Suspended frazil ice crystals below Filchner Ice Shelf
1 January, 2006
Antarctica: closer than you think
1 January, 2006
The Antarctic ice sheet and sea level rise
1 January, 2006
Future hot water drilling on Rutford Ice Stream 2004/05
1 January, 2006
Tidal vertical mixing beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 2006
The future of ice core science
1 January, 2006
Ocean processes below Fimbulisen – modeling results
1 January, 2005
The EPICA challenge to the Earth system modeling community
1 January, 2004
Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core
1 January, 2004
Revealing Antarctica’s secrets
1 January, 2004
Frazil ice formation in an ice shelf water plume
1 January, 2004
Ice flow direction change in interior West Antarctica
1 January, 2004
Ronne inflow experiment – fieldwork
1 January, 2004
Ancient Antarctica
1 January, 2004
Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen shelf break
1 January, 2004
Thermoviscous stability of ice-sheet flows
1 January, 2004
The uses of Martian ice
1 January, 2004
Distribution of soluble impurities in cold glacial ice
1 January, 2004
An ice core indicator of Antarctic sea ice production?
1 January, 2003
Air-ice chemical interactions (AICI)
1 January, 2003
Modelling the ocean circulation beneath the Ross Ice Shelf
1 January, 2003
Optimal estimation of changes in the mass of ice sheets
1 January, 2003
Whither Antarctic sea ice?
1 January, 2003
From Port Stanley, 4th April, 2003
1 January, 2003
Thermomechanical coupling of ice flow with the bedrock
1 January, 2003
Transmission of basal variability to a glacier surface
1 January, 2003
Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) Research Initiative
1 January, 2003
SEM studies of the morphology and chemistry of polar ice
1 January, 2003
Subsurface crevasse formation in glaciers and ice sheets
1 January, 2003
Extending the ice core record beyond half a million years
1 January, 2002
Risk estimation of collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet
1 January, 2002
Fracture of Antarctic shelf ice
1 January, 2002
A medium-depth ice core drill
1 January, 2002
South Georgia : a landscape from rock, ice and sea
1 January, 2002
Introduction: volcano-ice interaction on Earth and Mars
1 January, 2002
1000 year ice-core records from Berkner Island, Antarctica
1 January, 2002
Stable-isotope records from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
1 January, 2002
Tide-induced lateral movement of Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1 January, 2002
Volcano-ice interaction on Earth and Mars
1 January, 2002
Antarctic glacial history and sea-level change
1 January, 2002
A tentative chronology for the EPICA Dome Concordia Ice Core
1 January, 2001
Ice stream shear margins
1 January, 2001
Ice in the earth system: the view from above
1 January, 2001
Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica
1 January, 2001
Influence of channelling on heating in ice-sheet flows
1 January, 2001
Measurements of NOx emissions from the Antarctic snowpack
1 January, 2001
Inland Thinning of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica
1 January, 2001
A day in the life of a glaciologist
1 January, 2001
History of the atmosphere from ice cores
1 January, 2000
When volcanoes erupt under ice
1 January, 2000
Subglacial eruptions
1 January, 2000
Migration of methane sulphonate in Antarctic firn and ice
1 January, 2000
Glacier surge propagation by thermal evolution at the bed
1 January, 2000
Sliding over anisotropic beds
1 January, 2000
Reassessment of net surface mass balance in Antarctica
1 January, 1999
Surface ablation rates on Moraine Corrie Glacier, Antarctica
1 January, 1999
Pore-water signal of marine ice-sheets
1 January, 1999
Differential scanning calorimetry studies on enchytraeids
1 January, 1999
The impact of melting ice on ocean waters
1 January, 1999
On the numerical computation of temperature in an ice sheet
1 January, 1999
The influence of ice on polar nearshore benthos
1 January, 1999
Antarctic glacial history and sea-level change
1 January, 1999
Local glaciers surrounding the continental ice sheets
1 January, 1998
Background to CRP-1, Cape Roberts Project, Antarctica
1 January, 1998
Snowmelt modelling on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands
1 January, 1998
Preface [to special section on Greenland Summit Ice Cores]
1 November, 1997
Historical observations of Prince Gustav Ice Shelf
1 October, 1997
Climate change: Icy message from the Antarctic
1 September, 1997
Photogrammetry as a research tool for glaciology
1 April, 1997
Normal modes of an ice sheet
1 March, 1997
Deforming beds: Viscous and plastic scales of deformation
1 January, 1997
Modelling temperature variations in polar snow using DAISY
1 January, 1997
Glacial flutes and iceberg furrows, Antarctic Peninsula
1 January, 1997
Glacially-influenced sediment drifts in the Rockall Trough
1 January, 1997
Stability of ice rises and uncoupled marine ice sheets
1 January, 1996
Stochastic perturbation of divide position
1 January, 1996
Interpreting natural climate signals in ice cores
1 November, 1995
Geology and seismic stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin
1 January, 1995
A phase-changing dry snowpack model
1 January, 1995
Ice cores: profiles of the past
1 January, 1995
Tidal flexure at ice shelf margins
1 January, 1995
Nitrate in polar ice
1 January, 1995
Stabilists strike again
1 January, 1995
Snow surface temperatures in West Antarctica
1 December, 1994
Is this little PIG in hot water
1 January, 1994
Numerical modelling of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 1994
Observation of a rift in the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1 January, 1994
The BAS hot water drill
1 January, 1994
BAS hot water drilling on Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1 January, 1994
Ice sheet retreat from the Antarctic Peninsula shelf
1 January, 1994
Ocean circulation beneath Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 1994
Glacier geophysics fieldwork on Ronne Ice Shelf in 1992/1993
1 January, 1994
ERS-1 SAR: stress indicator for Antarctic ice streams
1 January, 1994
Radar absorption due to impurities in Antarctic ice
1 January, 1993
Qualitative dynamics of marine ice sheets
1 January, 1993
Modelling the dynamics of ice sheets
1 January, 1993
High-resolution dielectric profiling of ice cores
1 January, 1993
Ice blisters and ice dolines
1 January, 1993
X-ray microprobe studies of ice and snow
1 January, 1993
Glaciological observations on Antarctic Peninsula
1 January, 1993
Chasing the rogue icebergs
1 January, 1993
Relating the occurrence of crevasses to surface strain rates
1 January, 1993
Is there life on Mars (Glacier)?
1 January, 1993
Sea salt dependent electrical conduction in polar ice
1 December, 1992
The chemical basis for the electrical stratigraphy of ice
1 February, 1992
Gravimetric tidal measurements on Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 1992
The response of large ice sheets to climatic change
1 January, 1992
How unstable is the West Antarctic ice sheet?
1 January, 1992
Estimating ice-sheet response to climate change
1 January, 1992
Melting of ice shelves and the mass balance of Antarctica
1 January, 1992
Influence of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf on the Weddell Sea
1 January, 1992
Dielectric response of water and ice in frozen soils
1 January, 1992
Snow surface temperatures in West Antarctica
1 January, 1992
Merely the tip of the ice core
1 January, 1992
The distribution of impurities in Antarctic ice
1 January, 1992
Glaciological observations on Antarctic Peninsula
1 January, 1992
Characterizing supercooling point distributions
1 January, 1992
The use of visible satellite imagery over ice sheets
1 January, 1992
Ocean circulation beneath the Ronne ice shelf
1 November, 1991
Polar ice cores and climate history
1 April, 1991
Relict flow stripes on the Ross Ice Shelf
1 January, 1991
Impurity concentrations inferred from radio echo sounding
1 January, 1991
Breakup of the Wordie Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1 January, 1991
The contribution of Seasat to ice sheet glaciology
1 January, 1991
The response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climatic change
1 January, 1991
Ice-ocean interaction on Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1 January, 1991
Glaciological measurements on the south Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 1991
Thematic maps of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 1991
Science rationale – glaciology
1 January, 1991
Signals of atmospheric pollution in polar snow and ice
1 September, 1990
A mixture theory for a phase-changing snowpack
1 January, 1990
Analysis of Antarctic snow and ice
1 January, 1990
The shelf life of Antarctic ice
4 November, 1989
Ice-age clues for warmer world
1 June, 1989
Trace metals and organic compounds in ice cores
1 January, 1989
Satellite radar altimetry of ice sheets and ice shelves
1 January, 1989
Periodic motions in Weddell Sea pack ice
1 January, 1989
Sulphuric acid at grain boundaries in Antarctic ice
1 January, 1988
The structure of Wordie Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
1 January, 1988
Topography of an Antarctic ice stream
1 January, 1988
The Location of Impurities in Antarctic Ice
1 January, 1988
Glacial history of Antarctica
1 January, 1987
Antarctic ice and rocks
1 January, 1987
Some aspects of the flow of the Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 1987
Glaciological studies on Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica
1 January, 1987
Force balance of Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica
1 January, 1987
Fifty years of progress in understanding ice sheets
1 January, 1987
The answer lies in the ice
1 January, 1987
An Ice Caldera in North-east Graham Land
1 June, 1963
Essential cargo delivered for science on Thwaites Glacier
14 January, 2019
The British Antractic Survey’s vessel RRS Ernest Shackleton teamed up with the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Protector to help scientists begin a five-year mission to understand how West Antarctica …
Measuring glaciers in the Himalayan mountains
11 October, 2018
Technology pioneered in Antarctica could soon be providing much-needed data on the amount of ice in the glaciers of High Mountain Asia thanks to an ingenious helicopter-mounted, low-frequency radar developed …
New maps show why glacier ice front suddenly shrank
15 June, 2018
Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is one of the fastest-flowing glaciers in Antarctica. Over the last eleven years, four major icebergs have broken off from its floating ice shelf. …
Boaty returns from first mission under the ice
13 March, 2018
The yellow high-tech autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), affectionately known as Boaty McBoatface, has successfully returned from an ambitious science expedition deep below half a kilometre of ice. It is the …
New map reveals landscape beneath Greenland’s ice sheet
14 December, 2017
A new map of what lies beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet is published this week (Thursday 14 December 2017). By providing scientists with the most comprehensive, high resolution and accurate …
Giant West Antarctic iceberg disintegrates
29 November, 2017
An animation of the giant iceberg that calved off the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica just over two months ago shows an unexpected break up. Satellite images revealed a …
Maps reveal landscape beneath Antarctica’s weak underbelly
20 November, 2017
A UK team of researchers has produced high-resolution maps of the bed beneath a major glacier in West Antarctica, which will help them predict future sea-level rise from this region. …
Large iceberg breaks off Pine Island Glacier
27 September, 2017
Latest satellite images reveal a new 100-square-mile iceberg emerging from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. The calving event did not come as a complete surprise, but is a troubling sign with …
New footage shows crack in Larsen C Ice Shelf
21 February, 2017
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) recently captured this video footage of a huge crack in the Larsen C Ice Shelf, on the Antarctic Peninsula. Currently a huge iceberg, roughly the size …
New study shows when Pine Island Glacier retreat began
23 November, 2016
New study reveals when West Antarctica’s largest glacier started retreating Reporting this week (Wednesday 23 November) in the journal Nature an international team led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explains …
Ocean warming primary cause of glacier retreat
14 July, 2016
A new study has found for the first time that ocean warming is the primary cause of retreat of glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Peninsula is one of the largest current contributors to sea-level rise and this new finding will enable researchers to make better predictions of ice loss from this region.
FEATURED PAPER: Improved modelling of ice-ocean processes
19 May, 2016
Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is currently one of the single biggest contributors to sea-level rise with an estimated volume loss of 1.2mm sea-level equivalent per decade. The loss …
FEATURED PAPER: Glacier response to ice shelf collapse
12 August, 2015
In February 2002, satellite images from a remote location in Antarctica revealed how an immense volume of floating ice, up to 1km thick, suddenly collapsed. Over the course of a …
NEWS STORY: Melting rates accelerate
26 March, 2015
New research shows volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating New research published today in the journal Science Express (Thursday 26 March) describes how the ice shelves around Antarctica …
NEWS STORY: Glacier project on stamps
25 November, 2014
Stamp of approval for iSTAR The iSTAR programme, which is looking at the stability of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, is featured in a new set of British Antarctic Territory …
NEWS STORY: New iSTAR season starts
11 November, 2014
Scientists head to Pine Island Glacier for new research season A team of twelve scientists and support staff has arrived on Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica in the second …
NEWS STORY: Sea levels rising faster in Antarctica
1 September, 2014
Antarctic sea-level rising faster than global rate A new study of satellite data from the last 19 years reveals that fresh water from melting glaciers has caused the sea-level around …
PRESS RELEASE: Glacier’s thinning charted
20 February, 2014
Previous rapid thinning of Pine Island Glacier sheds light on future Antarctic ice loss New research, published this week in Science, suggests that the largest single contributor to global sea …
NEWS STORY: First phase of glacier mission ends
10 February, 2014
First leg of Antarctic iSTAR mission accomplished A team of British scientists has returned from a gruelling 1500km journey across the ice of West Antarctica after successfully completing the first …
NEWS STORY: Glacier thinning at point of no return
14 January, 2014
Focus on Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica Pine Island Glacier, on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the largest single contributor to sea-level rise in Antarctica. The stability of the …
NEWS STORY: “Stripes” hinder ice flow
8 November, 2013
Tiger stripes’ under Antarctic glacier slow the flow Narrow stripes of dirt and rock beneath massive Antarctic glaciers create friction zones that slow the flow of ice toward the sea, …
NEWS STORY: Ice melt rates measured
13 September, 2013
Antarctic research details ice melt below massive glacier An expedition of international scientists to the far reaches of Antarctica’s remote Pine Island Glacier has yielded exact measurements of an undersea …
NEWS STORY: Mission to Pine Island Glacier
9 September, 2013
Ambitious science mission sets off for Antarctica A team of British scientists is making final preparations for an ambitious Antarctic science mission. They aim to discover what’s causing the recent …
NEWS STORY: Measuring icequakes
28 August, 2013
Icequakes unlock secrets of icestreams Measuring tiny icequakes is helping British Antarctic Survey scientists investigate ice streams despite the challenging environment they have to work in. The work of Emma …
PRESS RELEASE: Increase in melt rates on Antarctic Peninsula
14 April, 2013
New insight into accelerating summer ice melt on the Antarctic Peninsula A new 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost ten-fold, and mostly since …
PRESS RELEASE: Ocean currents driving ice loss
25 April, 2012
Warm ocean currents cause majority of ice loss from Antarctica Reporting this week (Thursday 26 April) in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists led by British Antarctic Survey …
PRESS RELEASE: Study of largest glacier
5 December, 2011
Scientist on BBC Frozen Planet investigates how world’s largest glacier is contributing to sea-level rise A team of scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is to survey the largest glacier …
PRESS RELEASE: Glacier’s melt rate quickens
27 June, 2011
Warm ocean speeds melting of Antarctic glacier New results from an investigation into a large glacier in Antarctica and its impact on global sea level rise are published this week …
PRESS RELEASE: Ice thinning captured by satellites
23 September, 2009
Lasers from space show thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets The most comprehensive picture of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice …
PRESS RELEASE: 3D map aids ice flow estimates
20 July, 2009
New research provides insight into ice sheet behaviour A new study published this week takes scientists a step further in their quest to understand how Antarctica’s vast glaciers will contribute …