Susan Howard

Congrats to everyone involved! Looking forward to the amazing science that will come out of this mission 🛰️🌎🎉

The Mount Baker Project: Citizen Science In Action – Earth and Space Research The Mount Baker Project: Citizen Science In Action By Hana Hyde and ESR Staff How a high school mountaineering trip became a long-term climate research project. As science advances toward more open, t...

This month, ESR's spotlight is on The Mount Baker Project. This Citizen Science project started from a high school mountaineering trip and has become a long-term climate research project, under the direction of Michael Town. www.esr.org/spotlight/th...

Earth and Space Research Institute Earth and Space Research institute - to increase societal understanding of the Earth system through scientific research and public education.

Earth and Space Research (ESR) has a new look! Yesterday, we launched our redesigned website, including our new logo!

The new site highlights ESR’s long-standing commitment to open data access, while also introducing Spotlights on people and research topics.

See what’s new at ESR: www.esr.org!

NSF Plans to Abolish Divisions - Eos The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to abolish dozens of divisions across all eight of its directorates and reduce the number of programs within those divisions, according to Science. A s...

The National Science Foundation is planning to abolish dozens of divisions. eos.org/research-and...

Another fun STEAM night with a couple of awesome colleagues who helped make this a great event!

ESR's density and the ocean exhibit

Density tower made of stacked liquids in glass cylinder.

Kids are testing the density of different water types using pipettes and beakers

thank you card from SVEC students

ESR scientists were thrilled to spend Earth Day teaching students and parents about the importance of the oceans at the Sky Valley Education Center's Earth Day event on April 22. Susan Howard and Jesse Anderson explained the concept of density and discussed our work as physical oceanographers.

Update on Thwaites Glacier Eastern Ice Shelf from Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR. Downloadable version here: aluckman4.wixsite.com/ade-s-world-...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily global sea ice extent in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2024 using shades of purple to white for each line. There is substantial interannual and daily variability. Seasonal cycles are visible. Note: the poles are affected by very different Earth system processes/seasonality. I am using 5-day running mean data.

While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels...

More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

I love being able make science fun and share the cool work I do with kids (and adults!)

Picture of Antarctic Ice Sheet as seen from plane. Photo by Susan Howard, ESR

A new paper about the Antarctic Ice Sheet in a special issue of @science.org reviews critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of how Antarctica responds to variations in global climate.

Antarctica in 2025: Drivers of deep uncertainty in projected ice loss
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My. God.

These people are idiots.

I'm a researcher funded by NSF. The indirect funds that are being slashed to 15% at NIH, and probably NSF soon, are not some kind of markup or profit.

These pay for essential things like rent for a building to work in, lab space, salaries of people who manage benefits for the organization... 1/

New Special Issue out today in Science on the Earth's polar regions from the Arctic to the Antarctic

Fact-checking what Project 2025 says about the National Weather Service and NOAA As Florida braced for Hurricane Helene, some weather and politics observers were mad about Project 2025.

Project 2025 describes NOAA as a primary component “of the climate change alarm industry” and said it “should be broken up and downsized.”

A new iceberg, ~30x14 km in size, recently calved from the southern end of the George VI Ice Shelf. It's called A84 and is already making quite an impact, bumping into the Stange Ice Shelf over the weekend! These Copernicus Sentinel-1 images from Polar View show the new berg over the last few days.

YouTube video by CBC News Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

Very much worth a watch if you have not yet seen the PM’s brief and moving speech to Americans and Canadians.

“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."

Donate UAF expeditions — Inspiring Girls Expeditions

Well, we're learning more about what "harmful DEI" is. Inspiring Girls* Expeditions Alaska just lost a large chunk of their current funding. This is an outstanding free program that has brought great young women into earth science. Consider a donation, maybe? www.inspiringgirls.org/donate-uaf-e...

Congratulations ESR! Here's to another 30 years!!!

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ESR research scientist Michael Town is off to Troll Station with the Norwegian Polar Institute to install equipment for the Integrated Cloud Observatory (part of the part of the Troll Observing Network).

Follow their progress, and learn more at: troll-observing-network.github.io/integrated-c...

Helen Fricker headshot

❄️ Congratulations to Scripps Oceanography glaciologist
@helen-amanda.bsky.social for earning the prestigious 2024 Seligman Crystal from @igsoc.bsky.social! She was lauded for her exceptional scientific contributions to glaciology and for being an international leader in polar remote sensing.

Thousands of previously unknown mountains and hills spotted in best-yet seafloor map Data from SWOT satellite could stimulate studies of plate tectonics

The new SWOT map of seafloor topography is incredible! Thanks @voosen.me for writing it up from #AGU24: www.science.org/content/arti...

Snapshot of award ceremony screen naming Laurie Padman as AGU fellow

Laurie Padman named AGU fellow. Snapshot of screen.

Congratulations to my collaborator and friend, Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social, on being named an AGU Fellow. Well deserved 🎉🥂

Happy to have our dataset featured in this month's blog post by the Arctic Data Center @arcticdatactr.bsky.social. Check out the interview with me and our Arctic Tidal Constituent Atlas (ArcTiCA) at arcticdata.io/all/news/202...