News

Read some of our latest news below.  You can also read older items in the news archive and see some of the national and international media coverage of our work.

 

AI can map giant icebergs from satellite images 10,000 times faster than humans

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 ...
/ Icebergs, Sentinel-1

Polar ice sheet melting records have toppled during the past decade

Press release: 20 April 2023, Northumbria University - Polar ice sheet melting records have toppled during the past decade | ...

Guest EGU Blog-For Dummies: Radar altimetry for measuring ice sheet elevation changes

CPOM scientist, Inès Otosaka features as the guest EGU blogger and talks about the importance of radar altimetry in glaciology ...
/ Antarctic, Arctic, Blog, CryoSat, Sea level rise

ESA CryoVEx/DEFIANT Antarctica campaign

The following blog was written by Research Fellow, Inès Otosaka based at the University of Leeds. Last month (December 2022), ...
/ Antarctic, Blog, CryoSat, Land ice, Sea ice

Protecting Our Planet Day 22

CPOM Director, Professor Andy Shepherd (University of Leeds) features in a STEM Learning episode on Protecting Our Ice, its now ...
/ Events

CPOM at COP27

PhD researcher, Robbie Mallett (UCL) attended COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, with the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative. During the ...
/ Antarctic,