The following blog was written by PhD researcher, Amy Swiggs based at the University of Leeds. Andy Shepherd, Inès Otosaka, Anne Braakmann-Folgmann and I travelled to Greenland in Spring 2022 for the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) CRYO2ICE campaign. The campaign…
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Full article can be found at CarbonBrief. The 10 climate papers most featured in the media in 2021 includes CPOM’s Cryosphere review paper of “Earth’s ice imbalance” led by CPOM scientist Dr Tom Slater based at the University of Leeds….
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Article first published by the University of Leeds – 19.01.22 Scientists monitoring the giant A68A Antarctic iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of fresh water was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia….
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ESA – World’s ice is melting faster than ever As global temperatures increase, the melting of the massive ice sheets that blanket Antarctica and Greenland has accelerated, making a significant contribution to sea-level rise. In total, Earth is losing around…
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Article first published by the University of Leeds – 02.11.21 Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and more intense over the past 40 years according to new research, raising sea levels…
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A glacier in West Antarctica has been formally named after the city of Glasgow to mark its hosting of the COP26 climate change conference. The Scottish city will welcome more than 100 world leaders to COP26, the 26th UN Climate…
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The full story can be found at: Bringing research to secondary schools. | UCL Earth Sciences – UCL – University College London Dr Rosemary Willatt, a CPOM Research Fellow delivers Secondary School Science Advisors programme. Rosemary Willatt, a Research Fellow…
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The full story can be found at Arctic sea ice thinning faster than expected | UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences – UCL – University College London. Sea ice in the coastal regions of the Arctic may be thinning up to…
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Noel Gourmelen, CPOM Associate Investigator at University of Edinburgh, is amongst the authors of a recent study, which shows that mountain glaciers in the Gulf Alaska and in High Mountain Asia have lost 5% of their volume of ice over…
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Supervisors: Dr Mal McMillan, Dr Amber Leeson, Dr Ce Zhang, Adam Sykulski Institute: Lancaster University Overview The rationale: Melting of Earth’s Polar ice sheets contributes approximately one-third of global sea level rise. As Earth’s climate warms, this contribution will increase…
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