Ice sheets growing from the base
Fresh water freezing onto the bottom of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets leads to the formation of spectacular plume-shaped features, according to new research published today (7th November) in […]
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Prestigious award for BAS early career scientist
Read more of: Prestigious award for BAS early career scientistCongratulations to Dr Emilie Capron who has been awarded the prestigious Early Career Scientist Award of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). Dr Capron is a palaeoclimatologist at British […]
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Measuring glaciers in the Himalayan mountains
Read more of: Measuring glaciers in the Himalayan mountainsTechnology 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 […]
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Melt-rate of West Antarctic Ice Sheet highly sensitive to changes in ocean temperatures
Read more of: Melt-rate of West Antarctic Ice Sheet highly sensitive to changes in ocean temperaturesMelting of ice shelves in West Antarctica speeds up and slows down in response to changes in deep ocean temperature, and is far more variable than previously thought, according to […]
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Bedrock sampling beneath Antarctic ice
Read more of: Bedrock sampling beneath Antarctic iceIn this project samples of bedrock were analysed to determine how long they have been shielded from the sun, and that could tell us how long ago the ice sheet formed, even if the first ice has long gone.
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New maps show why glacier ice front suddenly shrank
Read more of: New maps show why glacier ice front suddenly shrankPine 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. […]
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Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial Thwaites
Read more of: Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial ThwaitesGHOST is an ice-based project which will examine the bed beneath the Thwaites Glacier, to assess whether conditions are likely to allow rapid retreat, or if the retreat may slow or stop due to a ridge 70 km inland.
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Melting at Thwaites Grounding Zone and its Control on Sea Level
Read more of: Melting at Thwaites Grounding Zone and its Control on Sea LevelMELT is an ice-based project that will use autonomous sensors to monitor the ice column and ocean beneath the ice shelf in the critical area of the grounding line (the point where the glacier goes afloat to become ice shelf).
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Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier System
Read more of: Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier SystemGHC will gather information about past ice sheet behaviour and relative sea level change in the Thwaites Glacier system. Determining the timing and magniture of past episodes of thinning and retreat and subsequent re-advance is important to provide a context for the current and future behaviour of Thwaites Glacier.
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New study reveals increased snowfall in Antarctica over last two centuries
Read more of: New study reveals increased snowfall in Antarctica over last two centuriesThe first comprehensive study of snowfall across Antarctica provides vital information in the study of future sea-level rise. Presenting this week (Monday 9 April 2018) at the European Geosciences Union […]
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Boaty returns from first mission under the ice
Read more of: Boaty returns from first mission under the iceThe 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 […]
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Larsen-C Benthos
Read more of: Larsen-C BenthosThe Larsen-C Benthos project studied benthic biodiversity on the seabed exposed by the 2017 calving of the Larsen-C Ice Shelf.
