£8.4M has been awarded to the British Antarctic Survey and the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling to deliver the next 5 years of their long-term polar science activities. The UK Polar Research Expertise for Science and Society (PRESCIENT) programme…
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New publication in Nature Communications introduces GPSat, a tool that helps process constantly changing satellite data, more quickly and efficiently than older methods. This tool can help scientists better monitor changes in sea ice over time and help improve predictions…
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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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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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The UKRI have awarded £47M to NERC research centres to address six critical environmental science challenges facing the UK, including climate change mitigation strategies, coastal flooding & erosion, and extreme weather. CPOM is to collaborate on 3 projects BIOPOLE, CANARI & TerraFIRMA….
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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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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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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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CPOM Director Andy Shepherd (University of Leeds) and CPOM Associate Investigator Dr Tamsin Edwards (King’s College London) feature on BBC One’s documentary ‘Greta Thunberg – A Year to Change the World’ 12th April 2021 part one of a three-part documentary…
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