Why would anyone want to be a scientist? There are the pleasures of:
1. Having the initial idea or insight,
2. Watching the idea develop into new experiments or a new model, and
3. Telling others.
Martin A. Schwartz
Check out also his Night Science podcast episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/7...
15.08.2025 20:29 — 👍 63 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0
We’ve collected the oldest ice core, now it’s time to analyse it! 🔍 💻
The @newscientist.com have a new icy-cool video, speaking to BAS scientists about the Beyond EPICA project, highlighting why this work is so important in the face of climate change.
www.newscientist.com/video/249042...
12.08.2025 10:07 — 👍 41 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 6
Now with correct link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
06.08.2025 13:53 — 👍 23 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
Stoked to share our Australian community’s voice on “impacts of #Antarctic #SeaIce extremes“ published in PNASNexus!
Massive kudos to Ed for spearheading this epic, super multidisciplinary work👏🥳 And so honoured to be a part of it.
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
02.07.2025 08:07 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We look forward to welcoming the @erc.europa.eu Scientific Council to Durham next week and showcasing amazing research, like Professor @erinmcclimate.bsky.social's study on Antarctic snow petrels and sea ice evolution. Read more: bit.ly/4nde2gE
@geogdurham.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @bas.ac.uk
18.06.2025 15:08 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
CONGRATULATIONS to our very own @mikebentley.bsky.social who has been awarded an OBE for his services to Antarctic Science! Mike has not only made an outstanding contribution to polar science, he is also a fantastic colleague and we are all delighted for him! ❄️🥳
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
16.06.2025 15:36 — 👍 55 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through May 2025. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 431 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.
🚨 Carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels set a new monthly *record high* in May 2025 - 430.51 ppm (seasonal maximum)
This is the second largest May-May increase in this dataset (3.6 ppm higher than 2024). This is not good... 🫣
Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
07.06.2025 13:57 — 👍 225 🔁 116 💬 15 📌 14
What do sea-ice associated seabirds do during a season with little sea ice? Results from GPS tracking on snow petrels is now published, led by @elliehonan.bsky.social funded by @erc.europa.eu @leverhulme.ac.uk details here: www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/ 🧪🐙
06.06.2025 11:14 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.
This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
06.05.2025 20:08 — 👍 1345 🔁 694 💬 49 📌 101
blocks of ice and warm colored clouds in Antarctica
I took this image in Antarctica — a place of harsh beauty, sometimes colorful, and always deeper than expected. Share if you like it.
#Photography #Antarctica #Fieldwork
#PolarScience #GlacierLife #BlueIce #SciencePhotography
#VisualScience #IceStories #Earth #Expedition
05.05.2025 15:44 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Why is Antarctica so important?
Antarctica might feel very remote - until you look at the planet from a different perspective. It's actually central to our world's ocean currents.
🎁 Check the alt text to dig into this diagram
🌊 This is from a new book by BAS' @oceanandice.bsky.social (et al.)
22.04.2025 12:57 — 👍 128 🔁 41 💬 2 📌 6
Green shrubby tree covered hill over looking border between Finland and Norway. Woman in blue coat is flying a drone.
Woman lying down in dwarf shrubs with GPS and tape measure on ground. Vibe is tired!
Woman walking out of Kevo Subarctic research station
Trying the famous Norwegian petrol station hot dogs in Karasjok. Woman smiling holding hot dog!
Throwback to spending 3 weeks sampling around Kevo, Finland as part of my 1st field season for SAFE which was very kindly funded by INTERACT TA and helped by the lovely @thale.bsky.social
Also learnt that 30’C was possible at 70N! 😱😱
18.03.2025 13:39 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🧪🌊 🧵 As the minimum in Antarctic sea-ice extent has now dipped below 2 million km² for the third year in a row, it is looking increasingly like this is the new normal. In the 10 years up to 2015 the minimum extent averaged more than 3 million km².
Graph from @nsidc.bsky.social
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02.03.2025 17:01 — 👍 47 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0
Picture of scientist Dale Andersen, wearing a khaki button-down shirt and black undershirt, set against the background of a grey, cloudy sky.
https://buff.ly/4gJqFeF
The Explorers Club recognizes SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Dr. Dale Andersen with its Finn Ronne Memorial Award. Andersen has spent nearly five decades exploring Earth's most extreme environments.
12.02.2025 18:22 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2
Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins - Nature Geoscience
Greenland-wide observations of crevasse volume and distribution suggest substantial increases in crevassing between 2016 and 2021 at marine-terminating sectors with accelerating ice flow.
Our new paper is out in Nature Geoscience! In an ice-sheet-wide 3-D inventory of crevasses in 2016 and 2021, we find that crevasses are growing in response to ice acceleration on short timescales. @durham-university.bsky.social @byrdpolar.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social
03.02.2025 10:37 — 👍 62 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1
New paper out from our team!
Satellite observations of subglacial lakes are much needed for improving knowledge of subglacial meltwater dynamics and evolution, and for improving simulating these processes in models.
#glaciology #Antarctic #remotesensing #hydrology 🛰 💧
28.01.2025 08:50 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Glacial geologist/geomorphologist; Greenland Ice Sheet; British-Irish Ice Sheet
Professor of Archaeological Science at University College London.
Palaeothaw.com & isowetlands.com
Multi-isotope analysis of bones, teeth, shells. 14C dating, palaeoproteomics, ZooMS, palaeoclimate, palaeoecology, Palaeolithic & prehistoric archaeology,
Postdoctoral oceanographer studying the ocean carbon sink 🦈🤿🕹️
🏠 @imev-mer.fr (CNRS-Sorbonne Université) as part of the Horizon Europe @tricuso.bsky.social project
💻 https://louisedelaigue.owlstown.net/
🚀 http://bit.ly/3HWFD5I
An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Geoarchaeologist @GeogDurham | Painter/illustrator | Rock hoarder | they/them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.instagram.com/elittlewood_art
Quaternary geologist, Senior Lecturer at Kristianstad Uni. and guest researcher at Stockholm Uni., Sweden. Studying glacial and climate history, currently focusing on deglaciation patterns and chronology in Scandinavia.
Quaternary geologist at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU). Past ice sheets, palaeolakes and outburst floods.
glaciers and ice sheets, past and present ❄️⚒️💻[she/they]
Solid-earth deformation, geodesy, ice sheets, and sea level. Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow at @utas.bsky.social ❄️⚒️🌊🧪. Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science. Flawed follower of Jesus.
Glaciology research at Durham University on the past, present and future of our mountain glacier and ice sheet environments ❄️
https://durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/
EU research and innovation: National Contact Point for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (#MSCA) and the European Research Council (#ERC) in Norway.
I work at the Research Council of Norway.
Vertebrate palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. Aquatic amniotes: ichthyosaur evolution and physiology, whales and plesiosaurs. Member of the Young Academy of Norway. Miljøverner, mamma og paleontolog. she/her.
Climate and sea-ice scientist at MET Norway.
Research interests include sea ice, oceans, and polar climate. Living in the far north and love gardening, hiking, paddling, and drinking coffee. Any opinions expressed are my own.
ICCI is a network of senior policy experts and researchers aiming to spread cryosphere science and preserve the cryosphere's key role in Earth's climate system.
📸 Professional nature, science, and expedition photographer: www.whiteframe-photo.com
Polar and Alpine microbial ecologist 🌍
PostDoc volcanologist on the ROTTnROCK project at University of Strasbourg (France) | Field & Experimental Volcanology | 🌋 monitoring & disaster risk reduction
Network Archaeologist - Geoarchaeologist - Computational Archaeologist
Cat mum with too many hobbies - traveller
PhD on snow petrels with geogdurham.bsky.social and @bas.bsky.social funded by @erc.europa.eu ❄️ | seabird movement & diet | fatty acids & stable isotopes 🪶🐟🦐 | R | marine predators | polar ECR training & support with @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social 🐧🐻❄️ | 🇮🇪 in 🇬🇧
paleoclimate researcher and organic biogeochemist, dog lover, podcast listener | Postdoc at the University of Notre Dame
The Quaternary Research Association (QRA) is an interdisciplinary scientific organisation dedicated to researching the last 2.6 Ma BP.
https://www.qra.org.uk
