5 November, 2013
NERC invests £100m in environmental science doctoral training The Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, today announced £100 million of new NERC investment in fifteen Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs), …
12 November, 2025 by Josephine Anselin
Ocean-driven melting of floating ice shelves is currently the main process controlling Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise. However, despite major advances in the study of ice shelf-ocean interaction over…Read more on Ocean mixing and heat transport beneath Antarctic ice shelves
22 October, 2025 by Katie Lowery, Paul Holland, Pierre Dutrieux
Ice shelves buttress the grounded ice sheet, restraining its flow into the ocean. Mass loss from these ice shelves occurs primarily through ocean-induced basal melting, with the highest melt rates…21 October, 2025 by Ainsley Hatt, David Barnes, Lloyd Peck, Melody Clark
Predicting how benthic assemblages respond to ocean warming remains a central challenge in marine ecology. Artificial units of habitat such as settlement plates have long been used to study marine…1 October, 2025 by Aliaksandra Skachkova, Hannah Cubaynes, Jennifer Jackson, Penny Clarke, Peter Fretwell
Monitoring live and stranded cetaceans can be expensive and logistically challenging, resulting in knowledge gaps. Very high-resolution (VHR) optical satellites are considered a potential solution to addressing some of these…28 September, 2025 by Irene Malmierca Vallet, John Slattery, Louise Sime, Xu Zhang
Several general circulation models have now demonstrated the ability to simulate spontaneous millennial-scale oscillations that resemble Dansgaard–Oeschger (DO) events. It is often unclear how representative of DO events these simulations…16 September, 2025 by Peisong Zheng, Thomas Bauska
The last deglaciation, ca. 17,000–11,000 years before present (yr BP), marks the most recent period of large-scale climate reorganization on Earth. However, the timing and spatial patterns of the initial…Read more on Early warming over the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation
12 September, 2025 by Katrin Linse, Madeline Anderson, Philip Hollyman
A quarter of all marine methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is estimated to be hosted in Southern Ocean sediments. Climate change-induced ocean warming and ice shelf melting risk the stability…3 September, 2025 by Aidan Hunter, Amanda Burson, Andrew Meijers, Anna Belcher, Clara Manno, Dave Munday, Elaina Ford, Emma Boland, Povl Abrahamsen, Emma Young, Geraint Tarling, Gabriele Stowasser, Huw Griffiths, Hugh Venables, Alexander Brearley, Jennifer Freer, Jessica Richt, Kate Hendry, Katrin Linse, Laura Taylor, Madeline Anderson, Michael Meredith, Nadine Johnston, Petra ten Hoopen, Rachael Sanders, Ruta Hamilton, Ryan Saunders, Sarah Coombs, Sally Thorpe, Simeon Hill, Sophie Fielding
The export of elements (particularly carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus) from the Poles critically supports global marine biodiversity and major fisheries as well as the sequestration of atmospheric carbon to the…20 August, 2025 by Elizabeth Pearmain, Richard Phillips, Victoria Warwick-Evans
Spatial segregation in at-sea distribution is frequently observed in seabirds and can have important implications for conservation and management. Globally, many albatross and petrel populations are declining due to bycatch…13 August, 2025 by John Slattery
We assess near‐surface temperature and sea surface temperature trends in 8 seasonal forecast systems in the Copernicus Climate Change Service archive, over the common hindcast period (1993–2016). All but one…Read more on The Representation of Surface Temperature Trends in C3S Seasonal Forecast Systems
5 August, 2025 by Josephine Anselin, Keith Makinson, Keith Nicholls, Paul Holland
This study examines the interplay between water column structure, tidal currents, and basal melting at a site beneath Ronne Ice Shelf, using a 3-year data set of oceanographic measurements, and…28 July, 2025 by Kaitlin Naughten, Katherine Turner, Paul Holland
Increased ice shelf melting caused by ocean warming in the Amundsen Sea is likely committed for the coming century. However, the drivers behind this projected ocean warming are not yet…21 July, 2025 by Andrew Orr, Scott Hosking, Marc Girona-Mata, Tony Phillips
This study introduces a novel approach to post-processing (i.e. downscaling and bias-correcting) reanalysis-driven regional climate model daily precipitation outputs that can be generalised to ungauged mountain locations by leveraging sparse…18 June, 2025 by Liz Thomas, Roseanne Smith, Siobhan Johnson
Marine-sourced fatty acids provide a promising new suite of proxies for past sea-ice reconstructions, validated using ice cores from Bouvet Island, Greenland, and Alaska. Despite showing great potential as a…1 June, 2025 by Katherine Turner
Despite the increased awareness and action towards Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), the glaciological community still experiences and perpetuates examples of exclusionary and discriminatory behavior. We here discuss the challenges…23 May, 2025 by Anna Jones, Evelyn Workman, Freya Squires, Katrin Linse
The Southern Ocean's role in the global methane (CH4) cycle remains uncertain due to limited measurement data from this remote region. It is unclear if the Southern Ocean acts as…Read more on Methane Emissions and Dynamics in the Weddell and Scotia Seas
10 May, 2025 by Josephine Anselin, Keith Nicholls, Pierre Dutrieux
Using radar data from the Beardmore Glacier grounding zone, we image a narrow subglacial channel (300-500 m wide) that reaches a height of 200 m above the ambient ice-shelf draft.…20 January, 2025 by Kevin Hughes, Kudzai Hwengwere, Lloyd Peck, Melody Clark
Despite being recognised as a global problem, our understanding of human-mediated antimicrobial resistance (AMR) spread to remote regions of the world is limited. Antarctica, often referred to as “the last…16 January, 2025 by Andrew McDonald, Scott Hosking
In this paper, we explore the crucial role and challenges of computational reproducibility in geosciences, drawing insights from the Climate Informatics Reproducibility Challenge (CICR) in 2023. The competition aimed at…
