Scientists have trained an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accurately map the surface area and outline of giant icebergs captured on satellite images in just one-hundredth of a second. It is a major advance on existing automated systems which struggle to distinguish icebergs from other features…
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Press release: 20 April 2023, Northumbria University – Polar ice sheet melting records have toppled during the past decade | Northumbria University, Newcastle The seven worst years for polar ice sheets melting and losing ice have occurred during the past…
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CPOM scientist, Inès Otosaka features as the guest EGU blogger and talks about the importance of radar altimetry in glaciology for predicting future sea-level rise – a fabulous intro to radar altimetry & satellites. The full blog can be found…
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The following blog was written by Research Fellow, Inès Otosaka based at the University of Leeds. Last month (December 2022), I went to Antarctica for the first time to conduct some ground experiments over Adelaide Island, located on the western…
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CPOM Director, Professor Andy Shepherd (University of Leeds) features in a STEM Learning episode on Protecting Our Ice, its now available to watch online and includes a live link up with BAS scientists from the bottom of the Earth at…
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PhD researcher, Robbie Mallett (UCL) attended COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, with the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative. During the conference he gave talks and appeared on panels in the Cryosphere Pavilion. As well as running the pavilion, the ICCI…
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Congratulations to CPOM associate, Tamsin Edwards (KCL) who in 2023, will be on secondment as a new Parliamentary “Thematic Research Lead”: helping to provide evidence to Parliament on climate & environmental science. Tamsin will each join new thematic policy hubs…
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CPOM Director, Professor Andy Shepherd (University of Leeds) joined Simonetta Cheli, ESA’s Programmes and Head of ESRIN (ESA establishment in Italy) and co at the IAC2022 to discuss how ESA is preparing to address climate change. You can also watch Andy Shepherd answering how we raise awareness…
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Earth’s ice is melting 65% faster than the 1990s. But without satellites, we would be blind to the true status of global climate change. CPOM Scientist, Dr Tom Slater’s (University of Leeds) recent article ‘All Eyes on Earth’ written for a Royal…
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Satellites can now measure the thickness of Arctic sea ice in the summer months for the first time, thanks to a new study involving UCL researchers and CPOM associates, Professor Julienne Stroeve and Dr Michel Tsamados. Until now, satellites could only…
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