There are lakes buried deep beneath the Greenland ice sheet we can’t see called subglacial lakes.
📽️ In this video CPOM's Professor Mal McMillan @lancasteruni.bsky.social explains how researchers working on the GLOBE project aim to track them 👇
🔗 youtu.be/ECv9FnnQf1k
“In the longer term, it’s the loss of capability, the ability to make these observations, because, like many things, it’s much easier to break than it is to reconstitute."
CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati shares the impacts of the NOAA funding pause in @thehill.com ⬇️
thehill.com/policy/energ...
“Typically, snow at Niwot melts out by late May or early June. But this year, we're seeing near complete melt-off in mid April..."
CIRES Fellow Jennifer Kay took students up to the Mountain Research Station to measure snow — there wasn't much there. @colorado.edu
www.colorado.edu/today/colora...
🛰️Sunday is #HumanSpaceFlightDay - 65 years since humans first reached orbit.
Satellite technology has transformed what we know about the cryosphere.
Scroll down to read about just some of the CPOM science the space age made possible in recent years 👇
#HumanSpaceFlightDay #PolarScience
🌍It's #WorldHealthDay and the WHO is calling on everyone to celebrate the power of scientific collaboration to protect the health of people, animals, plants, and the planet.
🧊Understanding the cryosphere and how it is changing is a vital part of that story.
#StandWithScience #WorldHealthDay
Colorado showed UP to help name our future passenger rail — and the results are in!
Meet CoCo 🚆
25,000+ Coloradans voted, shared ideas, and helped shape what’s next for the Front Range Passenger Rail. This is our train, Colorado — and we’re just getting started.
Falljökull Glacier, or “Falling Glacier” in southeast Iceland, is known for its glacier hikes and ice caves. This photo is part of one of the largest organized (25,000+), publicly accessible glacier collections: NOAA@NSIDC’s Glacier Photograph Collection. https://nsidc.org/data/glacier_photo/
Help @colorado.edu spread the word about the importance of university research and advocate for science!
🔬Learn more on the CU Boulder research page: www.colorado.edu/research
✍ Draft a message to lawmakers: researchfor.us
🛰️New CPOM research assessing Sentinel-3 radar altimetry over Antarctica from Dr Joe Phillips & Prof Mal McMillan @lancasteruni.bsky.social.
Thread on what they found 👇
📽️ Clips from a Sentinel-3 flyover over Mertz Glacier, East Antarctica, showing the echoes recorded by the altimeter.
Michela Savignano’s first PhD paper is now online as a preprint in The Cryosphere:
"Temporal evolution of the Petermann Ice Shelf estuary constrained by remote sensing observations"
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... 🛰️❄️🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social
Great summary of our new study about the tipping points of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and related sea-level impacts in this new video by @drgilbz.bsky.social! Give it a watch!
📄 Link to the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#WorldGlaciersDay 🏔️🧊❄️
I dreamt last night that the peninsula had fallen off Antarctica into the Southern Ocean and I jumped off the continent into the freezing water to unsuccessfully try and save it. And this is this first post I see on bluesky in the morning. How odd.
Climate change impacts on the Antarctic Peninsula have global consequences. Great write up of our research in EOS.
This is worth fighting for.
eos.org/articles/ant...
Our new study discussing the future of the Antarctic Peninsula, led by @iceybethan.bsky.social, is featured in @agu.org’s Eos magazine today 🇦🇶 ❄️ 🛰️ 🧪
@cpom-uk.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social
Scientists in winter gear — 2 in red and 1 in blue — inspect equipment in a snowy landscape
CIRES scientists troubleshoot equipment in all kinds of environments and weather conditions — in 2017, glaciologists inspected GPS and camera equipment after a large melting event on the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica. #FieldworkFriday
📸: @alibanwell.bsky.social/CIRES
Our new study discussing the future of the Antarctic Peninsula, led by @iceybethan.bsky.social, is featured in @agu.org’s Eos magazine today 🇦🇶 ❄️ 🛰️ 🧪
@cpom-uk.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social
Crazy! 🥵
🆕 New Blog: How a love of physics at school led Alicia to the Arctic Circle.
Stories like Alicia's is a reminder why it's so important to encourage all children and young people to engage with science.
🔗 cpom.org.uk/internationa...
Image: Alicia on fieldwork in the Arctic Circle
❄️ From equations to ice sheets: how an interest in maths and physics can lead you to Antarctica and Greenland.
Dr Inès Otosaka (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) shared her journey into polar science at @stemlearning.bsky.social's Mars Day 2026 yesterday 👇
cpom.org.uk/from-equatio...
Great to see CPOM's Inès Otosaka (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) explaining how she went from studying maths at school in France to studying the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, as part of @stemlearning.bsky.social's Mars Day 2026 👇
🔗 www.stem.org.uk/primary/enri...
Earth on Tap. Come learn about the Earth, meet local scientists, and have a good time. At the Rayback Collective. Monday, March 9, 6 - 7:30 pm. Featuring two local atmospheric scientists as speakers: McKenzie Larson and Dr. Nels Bjarked. Graphic shows a tap with an image of Earth pouring into clouds.
Next week — Earth on Tap: the impacts of the low seasonal snowfall and development of downslope windstorms, featuring Nels Bjarke from @wwanews.bsky.social and CIRES.
🗓️: March 9
🕕️: 6 pm
📍: Rayback Collective
cakeclimate.org/events.html
Exciting Research Fellow position at @northumbriauni.bsky.social working on the @esaearth.esa.int -funded CryoTipping project.
Find out more and apply 👇
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
What can a PhD in polar science look like? 🧊
We followed CPOM PhD researcher Marlena Holloway (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) during the first year of her PhD to find out 👇
youtu.be/m5d7wYl5hRo
The US NSF has put out a "dear colleagues" letter that is essentially a yard sale list for @ncar-ucar.bsky.social
It asks questions such as, who'd like to take over some of NCAR's programs? Is anyone interested in commercial use of the Mesa Lab?
If you have thoughts, send them to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
NEW – Limiting warming to 2C is ‘crucial’ to protect pristine Antarctic Peninsula
✍️ @giulianaviglione.bsky.social
💬 comments from @iceybethan.bsky.social @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social @tridatta.bsky.social @scottdoney.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/wELuQCm
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Great video by Dr Gilbz explaining our new review paper about the future of the Antarctic Peninsula 👏🏻 🇦🇶 ❄️ 🧪
📣New article led by @iceybethan.bsky.social on how different future climate scenarios will impact the Antarctic Peninsula.
Co authors include CPOM's @alibanwell.bsky.social (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) and Tamsin Edwards (KCL).
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Our new paper on the future of the Antarctic Peninsula published today, showing how the various systems across the Peninsula will be impacted by different global warming scenarios.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Analysis by glaciologists @alibanwell.bsky.social from @cpom-uk.bsky.social, based at Northumbria, and Dr Jan De Rydt from our School of Geography and Natural Sciences features in this important paper.
💡More information here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
