A year ago today I was standing at the University of Manitoba bus stop in -10°C with my colleague Robbie Mallett. We had just finished an experiment on artificial sea ice at SERF — an outdoor ice tank. I’d returned to science a few…
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The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new CPOM research. The findings also reveal that the Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017 – equivalent to a sheet…
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CPOM Associate Investigator Dr Tamsin Edwards (King’s College London) featured on BBC4’s “Planet Earth – A User’s Guide” on 28th December 2020 as part of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2020. Watch the episode here until November 2021. The episode…
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The Government of the British Antarctic Territory has announced 28 new place names in the Territory today to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica. All of the names on the list were chosen to honour people who…
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COMING SOON (early 2021) ESA has created a new online course, ‘EO from Space: The Cryosphere’, led by CPOM and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Course Educators Professor Andrew Shepherd, CPOM Director, is the lead educator on the online course…
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Scientists warn that if greenhouse gas emissions continue apace, Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute more than 39cm to global sea level rise this century. From University of Leeds press release, 17th September The Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison…
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Research attention score: Article from University of Leeds: Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised global sea level by 1.8cm since the 1990s, and are matching worst-case climate warming scenarios. According to a…
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A CPOM-led study, which shows that 28 trillion tonnes of ice have disappeared from the surface of the Earth since 1994 due to greenhouse gas emissions, has captured media and public attention. CPOM researchers Professor Andy Shepherd, Dr Tom Slater…
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An article led by CPOM PhD researcher Inès Otosaka on ‘Surface Melting Drives Fluctuations in Airborne Radar Penetration in West Central Greenland’ has been published in Geophysical Research Letters (August 2020). Radar waves emitted by satellites can be used to…
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A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035. High temperatures in the Arctic during the last interglacial – the warm period around 127,000 years ago –…
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