Dr. Peter Neff

Incredible! Thanks for sharing!

What’s it like to sleep in a tent in #Antarctica? If you like white noise, it’s great! All of our work in Antarctica collecting ice cores to learn about past climate is funded by the US National Science Foundation and the United States Antarctic Program. Teams head south again in November.

The Greenlandification of Antarctica Nature Geoscience - Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of...

🚨New paper 🚨@natgeosci.nature.com Greenlandification of Antarctica - comment by me + colleagues @dmidk.bsky.social @eo4cryo.bsky.social + @universityofleeds.bsky.social showing how Antarctica increasingly resembles Greenland- drawing on a mass of work from @esaclimate.bsky.social

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Similar/identical language for NSF. Here's my transcription of an email shared with me by staff.

The NSF most certainly has very fancy telescopes at South Pole Station due to its cold, dry, stable atmosphere that is in darkness 6 months of the year!

Trying to engage more about US Antarctic science and presence, mostly over on IG and TikTok (3 min video limit here, clipped).
🙏 ❄️ @icy_pete

And that was just my weirdest day at that location! Thanks for watching…

Also yest (same day as NSF update): house CJS committee markup encourages NSF getting another ship… in committee markup report linked here: appropriations.house.gov/schedule/mar... @carlosmoffat.com

Sharing bad news from the horse’s mouth… you’re welcome I guess 🙃

Update on Nathaniel B. Palmer

NSF: The vessel [US Antarctic research vessel NB Palmer] is planned to be returned to the operator after a final cruise in October 2025.  
www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/upda... @carlosmoffat.com

Okay so I’m still not too deep into social media… thanks for the gut check 😆

Forgive my poor attempt at a proper YouTubey clickbaity thumbnail… probably should be more thoughtful editing and releasing this but how often do we just show what a science sample recovery mission looks like?? And icebreaker + heli supported ice coring has only happened maybe 2-3 times before…

YouTube video by Peter Neff Full Antarctic Ice Core Expedition By Ship & Helicopter | RAICA 23-24 Canisteo Pen., Amundsen Sea

What does an Antarctic expedition look like?

👀 ~90 min 2023-24 ice core mission to the Amundsen Sea, led by KOPRI (🇰🇷) w/ support from the US National Science Foundation.

Our 2x150m cores will give the first 100yr history of climate & environment near critical glaciers. youtu.be/K168bORpHTg?...

Oversight Committee Seeks Information on U.S. Strategy in Antarctica Amid Rising Presence of Foreign Adversaries - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

“Committee on Oversight & Government Reform is conducting oversight of coordination of federal agencies in advancing national research & other priorities in Antarctica, including U.S. Department of State’s & U.S. Department of Defense’s respective approaches." oversight.house.gov/release/over...

Full Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

US Antarctic colleagues: If your representatives are on this committee I’d encourage you to reach out to them to learn about their perspective and share yours. oversight.house.gov/subcommittee...

Oversight Committee Seeks Information on U.S. Strategy in Antarctica Amid Rising Presence of Foreign Adversaries - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

“Committee on Oversight & Government Reform is conducting oversight of coordination of federal agencies in advancing national research & other priorities in Antarctica, including U.S. Department of State’s & U.S. Department of Defense’s respective approaches." oversight.house.gov/release/over...

Evaluating IPCC Projections of Global Sea‐Level Change From the Pre‐Satellite Era IPCC projections in the mid-1990s of global sea-level change over the next 30 years were remarkably robust The largest disparities between projections and observations were due to underestimated ...

IPCC projections in the mid-1990s of global sea-level change over the next 30 years were remarkably robust - important for confidence in future projections.

The largest disparities were due to underestimated dynamic mass loss of ice sheets

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

Our internat’l colleagues already vow to support US Antarctic science in light of cuts & bare-minimum congressional support, paying back generosity from when the US was a leader in Antarctica. We’re lucky to have such colleagues as those at Korea Polar RI & others. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...

We in the US are teeing up internat’l colleagues. Step up, remind the world you have newer, better vessels than NBP. Use our dysfunction to demonstrate your leadership & secure continued funding for national assets that help secure global & national security through better understanding Antarctica.

This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.

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Feeling this too!

The “report” is a bad high-school level write up falling over itself to be contrarian and look askew from any serious examination of climate change and its impacts. It coming under the auspices of DOE is the only thing lending it any credibility, unfortunately.

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Nat Geo would kill for legit science-driven adventure like they found in “For Winter,” over content less credibly grounded in pursuit of knowledge +humans pushing limits. Instead they’ve (Disney?) gotten cold feet & deeply disrespected my colleague Ali & her family. defector.com/why-did-nati...

The DOE climate “report” is a farce, and one that I know my undergraduate weather and climate students will be examining and easily picking apart as a facile exercise in cherry picking that is an embarrassment to our nation and its true scientific experts across all disciplines.

No worries, appreciate you highlighting this. I had some things in consideration recently so my public commentary on it (as if it matters) was limited

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We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.

If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

This news is from NSF program officers? Is any rationale given? Choosing between assets in a constrained funding environment? All I was directed to, upon asking right after the budget request came out, was the budget office…

Tornado watch until 9 p.m. includes the Twin Cities NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has issued a severe thunderstorm watch until for much of Minnesota.

Here we go.
Tornado watch until 9 p.m. includes Twin Cities. 🌪️
#mnwx
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