Sammie Buzzard

story by me! 🧪 (and guest starring @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social )

I've been working on it for over a decade but the scale of the ice in Antarctica still 🤯
Look for the scale bar in the bottom right, 4km

Yes! Happy to help 🧊

Polar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’ Underwater curtains and artificial ice thickening divert attention from cutting fossil fuel use, says group of climate scientists

Polar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’

Our paper is out, providing alternative viewpoints to some polar geoengineering ideas covered in the media recently. Lots still to talk about but let's focus on decarbonising instead of drilling Antarctica for now? 🇦🇶
Thanks @newscientist.com @mjflepage.bsky.social for covering this important issue!

The book was not a good choice for field camp 😬😬😬

2 weeks internet free in camp. Nothing bad happened in the UK or the world in general while we were away... right? 😬

A rack of test tubes and a set of small scales on which salt is being added to a test tube through a paper funnel

I've got test tubes am I a real scientist now? 👩🏼‍🔬

It's a double pole summer, can I even call myself a modeller any more?

The SLIDE team all safely arrived in Kangerlussuaq and ready to science (after sleep)!

CPOM's @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social joined @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk to investigate what lies beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, Antarctica 🌊

Watch the 📽️ - cpom.org.uk/what-lies-be...

Back at @bas.ac.uk and the scale model of the Sir David Attenborough is so much more fun when you can spot your own cabin. Wishing I was back south and not in the Cambridge heat though! 🥵

Two days, two school visits, two excellent sets of students, thanks yr 8 @hebburncomp.bsky.social & yr 12 @ St Mary's! Hopefully a few future glaciologists inspired by my adventures on Boaty McBoatface (picture taken by one of the SDA crew in Lemaire Channel 🇦🇶, I'm on the tiny boat by the big berg!)

The updated UK government report on Antarctica hits the nail on the head, can we just focus on reducing emissions now?

"Antarctic research is central to global climate strategies. Although geoengineering solutions have been proposed, their high costs and environmental risks make them less viable compared to more effective strategies like reducing global carbon emissions."

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...

reports almost daily of Palestinians being killed while trying desperately to get to supplies.

what a horrific catch 22 Gazans are trapped in.

There were loads! I can get you date and location for this and 2 others from photos. The channel was full of them though so fingers crossed for you 🤞🏻

We came looking for chlorophyll and our acoustician found this... At 180m tall I guess we found out where the monster hangs out when not in Loch Ness @biopole.bsky.social?
www.instagram.com/p/DJ4LOnONVg...

Making new friends in the Lemaire Channel 😍

The science team currently on the RRS Sir David Attenborough 🚢
We've been finding out more about what's going on in the polar ocean and atmosphere as the southern hemisphere heads into winter ❄️
📷 @drbradbrad.bsky.social

@cpom-uk.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social

Some of the @biopole.bsky.social team and our science buddies enjoyed a walk around Rothera this morning, it's definitely getting wintery here! Necessary exercise to burn off all the incredible food on the RRS Sir David Attenborough. Fish and chips Friday tonight 😋

Yes! (The ship that is, not the autosub 😂)

Good morning from Boaty McBoatface 🚢

Fast forward to today and I'm on the ship for the first time waiting to depart the Falklands for Rothera. Could not be more excited for this totally unexpected chance thanks to @biopole.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social 🐬
Fingers crossed the Drake Passage is kind to us!

In 2021 I got to see the finished ship when she docked at Greenwich before her first trip to Antarctica. I got to come and talk polar science with @cosmicshambles.com and @helenczerski.bsky.social but my science was still very firmly on the ice ❄️

In 2016 @tjy511.bsky.social and I were lucky enough to be invited to the keel laying for the RRS Sir David Attenborough through @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social. Neither of us ever expected to go on the ship but there was a free breakfast and we almost got a selfie with the man himself 🚢

Parents have been clearing out my old school books and turns out I've actually been concerned about Antarctica for quite some time. Promise not to make a fire once I get there 😬

It’s been a wonderful final day of #EGU25 with a talk and poster from CPOM’s @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) and posters from Adam Bateson and David Schroeder (@uniofreading.bsky.social).

Here are some photos of the team in action!

Wishing everyone a safe journey home.

Sorry to miss you on Sunday, enjoy The Bound!

6 years of the session admin, 2 convening virtually and now finally 1 in person. This had better be one hell of a party...

Thomas Zwinger took us to "numerical hell on earth", otherwise known as water flow at the bed of the glacier. With added Cheese.