There are many routes into polar science from maths to geography and physics. Our #CPOMOriginStories series of videos explores the different routes our scientists took to kick start their careers in glaciology and polar science. In the first of the series…
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This week we watched along with many across the globe, as pioneer European satellite ERS-2 finally made its journey back to earth after almost 30 years monitoring earth from the sky. For many current and former CPOM scientists, this was…
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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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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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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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