S5 Ep7: What to wear in Antarctica

A fun opportunity to chat with Nadia about some of our whirlwind deployments to Antarctica, and how @bas.ac.uk make sure you're always warm!

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How do ice shelves break? Assessing the mechanisms behind ice shelf rifting in Antarctica The next UCL WiES seminar will be by Emma Pearce, an Ice Fracture Geophysicist from the British Antarctic Survey. Wednesday 29th October in KLB 127 1-2pm, followed by tea and coffee.

What a pleasure to be invited to give a talk for @ucl.ac.uk Women in Earth Science seminar series! If you're around next week, come say hi!

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Heard Island Glaciers Are Shrinking Faster Than Ever! Here’s what you need to know. In this blog post Dr Levan Tielidze from Monash University and Securing Antarctica’s Environmental F uture shares insights from a new glacier assessment of Heard Island . Although rarely visited and l...

Have a read of our latest @egu-cr.bsky.social Blog from @levantielidze.bsky.social !

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Scientists crush ice cores to predict Antarctica's next big ice crack In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of the cracks are huge as ice shelves hold back huge volumes of landlocked wate...

We were lucky enough to have @newscientist.com spend a few days with us to make this wonderful short film! I feel so lucky to be able to tell the story of the science I get to do at @bas.ac.uk in this way!
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Tracking the Footprints of a Vanishing Glaciers in the Greater Caucasus In this week’s blog, Levan Tielidze tells us about his recent glacier study from the Greater Caucasus. By combining geomorphology, remote sensing, and historical cartography, the team reconstructed ne...

🏔️ Vanishing giants in the Caucasus...
What do ancient glacial footprints tell us about climate change in one of the world’s most dynamic mountain regions?

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Women Of Cryo VIII: Natalie Hewit – Documenting Antarctica’s Frozen Voices Antarctica is a unique place where history, adventure, and science collide. It’s a continent that has fascinated explorers for centuries, but much of its story has been told through the lens of men wh...

Want to find out more about the amazing female director behind National Geographic's hit documentary 'ENDURANCE' - have a look at our latest blog? @egu.eu @egu-cr.bsky.social

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An amazing turn out for a beautifully sunny women and non binary @egu-cr.bsky.social lunch. What a wonderful community we have @egu.eu

EGU 25 – we’ve got you covered Are you attending this year’s EGU General Assembly virtual or in person? No matter the way you attend or if it’s your first time or you are coming to Vienna for the GA for years, today we share with y...

A super useful blog post for any cryosphere folk at @egu.eu !

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With @egu.eu next week, come and find out all about our Brunt Ice core data analysis! (Tuesday morning, 8.30am, Pico spot 5)

Celebrating at UNESCO: the first-ever global day for glaciers 2025 marks an important year for glaciers, as it’s the official Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, an initiative by UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Part of the initiative is also ...

An easter treat! A new @egu-cr.bsky.social blog post is up by Larissa van der Lann!

Grab your easter egg, and have a read!

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What about a fascinating and unusual PhD hat 🎓 ? In this blog, Dr. Torben Windirsch gives us a tour of his unique PhD hat, which includes many symbols of his Arctic fieldwork discoveries.

👉 Read more here from the Cryospheric Sciences division's blog: egu.eu/26OGT1

A wonderful article written by Amy Ringrose @bas.ac.uk, explaining what ice core scientists actually do! Have a read to see what I'll be up to with the ice from the Brunt.

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a yellow pyramid tent with e.t. the extra terrestrial in it

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Hole drilled into Greenland's heart reveals ice ready to slide into the sea Unique drilling project has ominous implications for sea-level rise

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And that's the season over. Halley has such a special place in my heart. It's so rare a glaciologist gets to be part of station life the way you do at Halley. A proper little family for three months. ❄️ Nowhere else quite like it! @bas.ac.uk

Yep 😭😂. I think it's due replacement!

No better way to end the season than getting to play around in a dozer for the morning pushing snow! 🚜

Halley VI science team photo ❄️ A wonderful collection of scientists and engineers keeping all the science on the Brunt Ice Shelf running over the summer and winter

A little bit of Sunday ice climbing in Antarctica in the sunniest wind scoop! 🧗🏼‍♀️

A beautiful blue sky day digging a big hole, visited by a Skua. Some last minute equipment servicing before the season ends

5 weeks later;
4 bore holes
1.5 tonnes of ice cores
64 seismometers
2 km of fibre optic
200 km of radar
11 GPS sites
And lots of games of bridge...
It's time to go home 😴

Picking up the seismometers after they've been deployed for 5 weeks, and this one had some little footprints from a curious Skua! I wonder if I'll see any pecking in the data 🐦

Every evening we sit and wait for a satellite call from Rothera to check our field team of four is all ok. This evening's call was accompanied by a slowly lowering sun on the horizon. The summer season slowly drawing to a close 🌅

Here we are trying to image the sea/ice interface on the Brunt ice shelf. It's quite mushy and not a clear divide, and could be anywhere between 60-200 m thick, as we can't tell from the radar alone. Hopefully lots of stacked hammer hits will tell us!

This is a type of silicone! It means the plate doesn't freeze to the ground when you hit it, and helps make a nice impulsive source when the hammer hits and bounces back.

Bang, bop, boop, bash, snow goes mush, do it again. The glamour of geophysics 🔨

A quick visit from Ollie and his twin otter and that's all our ice cores picked up and on their way to Halley!! Now just to let the seismometers do their thing for a few more days, and then home time!!

Four holes and four weeks later, and we are done drilling 😴

Warm, wet and windy! ft. My knitted hood I made a few seasons ago! 🧶

Bit of a blowy one today, so I think we'll stay inside 🌬️