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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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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As of January 2022, ESA has started releasing new CryoSat-2 Thematic Products, dedicated to five distinct areas: Sea Ice, Land Ice, Polar Oceans, Coastal Oceans and Inland Waters. Developed within the frame of the CryoSat-2 Thematic Products (Cryo-TEMPO) activity, these…
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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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Last month Rosemary Willatt was awarded the Konrad Steffen Award at the ESA Polar Science Week conference, for the best e-poster by an early career scientist. She received a scale model of the Sentinel-1 satellite and €1000 towards publication costs….
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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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UCL Grand Challenges and Global Engagement Office present: Beyond Boundaries Session 3: Sustainability & the Water Cycle Wednesday, 21 October 2020 09:00 – 10:30 BST This session will look at how the water elements of SDGs 13 (Climate Action), 14…
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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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