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❄️ Die POLARSTUNDE startet in die neue Saison!
Am 15.10. geht es um Sturmschwalben im Südpolarmeer 🐦🌊
Prof. Petra Quillfeldt & Dr. Yvonne Schumm geben spannende Einblicke in eine Brutkolonie auf King George Island.

📩 Anmeldung bis 14.10. an: polarstunde@polarforschung.de
@polarforschung.bsky.social

Simply beautiful photos of climate scientists in action. And really well explained - worth a read.
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❄️ Die POLARSTUNDE geht in eine neue Runde! ❄️
Ab dem 15.10. erwarten Sie spannende Vorträge rund um Polar- und Klimaforschung. 🌍🐧

📩 Anmeldung per Mail an polarstunde@polarforschung.de

@polarforschung.bsky.social

‪Extended deadline!
Early-career polar researchers – show us your creativity!
Submit a short, fun video explaining your thesis by Nov 1, 2025 and win up to 300€!
Details 👉 apecs-germany.de/explain-your...
@polarforschung.bsky.social

Time series of monthly Northern Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies from 1850 to August 2025 alongside multi-model expectations of the warming in this area (scenario SSP2-4.5).

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records.

And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected.

A short thread 🧵

Jari Haapala opens the first Finnish Sea Ice Research Day….great initiative bringing 60 sea ice researchers together…going to be a great day

💪 A superpower of the Southern Ocean is taking up heat and carbon from humans and slowing the rate of global warming, by exchanging heat and carbon between the atmosphere and the deep ocean.

🔄 The freeze-and-melt cycle of sea ice drives this exchange by changing water density and acting as a pump.

Ever heard of #AntarcticaInSync? It's a very cool initiative to better understand the Southern Ocean and it's icy continent..

Kicking off the second webinar now...
www.antarctica-insync.org

Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all wildly impractical, wouldn't work, or both

With emissions still rising 📈 and the catastrophic consequences 🔥 becoming ever clearer, geoengineering is getting ever more tempting 🧪

But a review has concluded that the main methods proposed to save polar ice 🧊 are not doable or won't work

www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

As the giant #Antarctic iceberg #A23a is currently breaking apart, we created a video about its dance in the water in the last year, including spinning in a Taylor column! Even though A23a is not sea ice, the microwave signature is similar and it shows up in our data! Can you spot it in the video?

Have you lived, worked, or journeyed in the polar regions? Do you have a story, memory, or reflection from your time there?

UK Polar Network (UKPN) and APECS Netherlands are creating a collection of voices from the Arctic and Antarctic — and we would love to hear yours!

@ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social

Have you heard of #AntarcticaInSync? A UNESCO-endorsed program for coordinated science in Antarctica & the Southern Ocean (www.antarctica-insync.org). We - APECS - aim to represent us early career scientists in the project 🙌🏼. You can find all FAQs on our new website: apecs-germany.de/antarctica-i...

The next issue of our quarterly science bulletin 'Southern Signals' will be out in October. Please sign up at aappartnership.org.au/contact-us/ to receive yours by email.

July 2025 issue at createsend.com/t/j-614D1AD6...

🚨 WORK WITH US at @imas-utas.bsky.social IN HOBART!

🦐 Research Associate – Krill Physiologist

🚢 Study #climate change impacts on #Antarctic krill through fieldwork on marine voyages and aquaria experiments

✍️ Applications close 26 October 2025

▶️ careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50143...

(S+) Expedition im Packeis: Polarforscher befürchten Ökokollaps im Eismeer Das Forschungsschiff »Polarstern« war zwei Monate lang im Eis der Arktis unterwegs. Was die Wissenschaftler gefunden haben, könnte auf eine ökologische Katastrophe hinweisen.

🧊 Die Evidenz für sehr viel frühere & stärkere Auswirkungen verdichtet sich bei jeder @awi.de Expedition in die #Arktis 👇
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Reminder!

Early-career polar researchers – show us your creativity!
Submit a short, fun video explaining your thesis by Oct 1, 2025 and win up to 300€!

Details 👉 apecs-germany.de/explain-your...

@polarforschung.bsky.social @apecs-denmark.bsky.social @apecsoceania.bsky.social @ehpecs.bsky.social

Smiling Gunnar standing in fron of radiometer on pulka with Polarstern in the background

Radiometer mounted on pulka in foreground, person taking measurements and research vessel Polarstern in the background.

Radiometer mounted on pulka in front of a beautiful fresh sea ice area.

Hi! I’m ARIEL, an L-band microwave radiometer 📡, and this is my little buddy Sebastian (the pulka 🛷). Together, we traveled across 3 Arctic ice stations ❄️ to uncover the invisible (aka microwave) secrets of ever-changing summer sea ice and its thickness on the @awi.de CONTRASTS #expedition 🧊.

Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage.

🌏 "To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of #Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage."

Researchers from @utas.edu.au, @ucl.ac.uk ‪and CSIRO set out some strategies towards long-term planetary stability in @nature.com.

▶️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Antarctica is in extreme peril New research catalogs several “abrupt changes,” like a precipitous loss of sea ice, unfolding in Antarctica with dire implications for us all.

“Sea-level rises of multiple meters mean global political instability that will dwarf what we’re seeing right now.” - @profmattengland.bsky.social

#Antarctica
#ClimateEmergency

grist.org/climate/anta...

#Matt_England 2025 post45
@profmattengland.bsky.social
The 25 page pdf is available.
note: There is a regime shift 2015 figure 1a.
Antarctica is 20Mkm² (bigger than Russia)
go.nature.com/45H0bqS
bsky.app/profile/natu...

Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship

An excellent article in the NYTimes about the impending demise of the last U.S. Antarctic research vessel, the N.B. Palmer, featuring US and overseas colleagues (including @polarrobs.bsky.social). Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...

Call for a special IGS-EGG conference grant to attend CliC OSC 2026 (clic2026.com)

Read the eligibility criteria here igsegg.org/egg-events/c...

Deadline: September 30

@igsoc.bsky.social

#Grant #CliC2026 #IGS #ECR

Powerful Earthquake Strikes Near Argentina and Chile The epicenter of the 7.5-magnitude quake was in the Drake Passage, a body of water between the southernmost tip of South America and Antarctica.

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Drake Passage, a body of water between the southernmost tip of South America and Antarctica. The Chilean government warned of possible tsunami waves at some of its bases in Antarctica.

Location of the earthquake marked by a star. Concentric circle surround the star showing what the levels of shaking would be in those areas.

M 7.5 - 2025 Southern Drake Passage Earthquake

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Antarctica is changing at s disturbing rate.

“What happens in Antarctica won’t stay there.

The stakes could not be higher. The choices made now will determine whether we face a future of worsening impacts and irreversible change or one of managed resilience to the changes already locked in.”

🌊 Southern Ocean Modellers – We Need You!

Take 10 min to share your insights & help shape upcoming @soosocean.bsky.social, @oceaniceeu.bsky.social & #AntarcticaInSync activities:

🔗 forms.gle/1VgrpMtcS5xi...
📅 10 Sept

Guide research priorities & strengthen links between modelling & obs communities

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

This is the second major research vessel prematurely retired in the same year. Devastating for Earth and Environmental Science research. www.science.org/content/arti...

Dmitry and his helpers deploying an upper ocean buoy on the ice.

Sea ice mass balance buoy deployed in the ice.

Our team member Dmitry is onboard @awi.de Polarstern on the #CONTRASTS expedition in the #Arctic Ocean. Part of the work is to deploy a number of autonomous systems to track the movement of the #seaice and how it is melting. Data will be made accessible on the @meereisportal.bsky.social data portal

Splash screen for the post: July 2025 Arctic Sea Ice Update.

The mid-July Arctic sea ice update is now posted in the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. Atlantic side of the North Pole has low ice extent, but the Pacific side has high ice. Two more months of melt to go for 2025. #Arctic #SeaIce #akwx #Summer2025

alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/july-2025-...

🇦🇶 Antarctica’s coastal zone is changing fast & it matters globally. A new #AntarcticRINGS review paper maps what we know, what we don’t & why it matters for sea-level rise. 🌊

Explore fresh insights, a Quantarctica-friendly data package & all figures as downloadable slides: scar.org/scar-news/cr...