What happens when giant #icebergs start to fall apart! #biopole2 #antarctica #southgeorgia #ice #A23a @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Very artsy pictures for the Nottingham Science Festival team!

Everyone who worked on the event, from the organisers to the library staff, were a dream to work with. And thanks to our volunteers!

@ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social festivals 🤩🤩

Melting Sea Ice Brings Rare Groundswell | Swellnet Analysis | Swellnet

👀 A fascinating insight to how changes in #Antarctic sea ice have effects elsewhere in the world:

🕳️ Lack of usual sea ice in Ross Sea
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🌪️ hurricane-strength winds
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🌊 strong, long-period swell on the southern NSW coast more than 4000km away!

▶️ www.swellnet.com/news/swellne...

Rare polar bear cub footage offers crucial conservation insights To a layperson, it’s footage of adorable polar bear cubs with their moms against the backdrop of endless Arctic snow. For researchers who study the animals, however, it’s a rare and incredibly importa...

“The first step in protecting the cubs starts with giving female polar bears & their offspring the best chance to be able to make it through this crucial development period & move on to the sea ice to begin hunting.” — Dr. Louise Archer in convo with @mongabay.bsky.social on our maternal den study

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice? Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet increasingly vulnerable to the cascading effects of global warming. This March, the A...

„But in a world suffering tremendous political upheaval and conflict, it’s hard for polar researchers to get the public’s attention and raise concerns with policymakers to conserve these frigid regions.“
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/pola...

For doctors dreaming of an adventure: how about being deployed for a season to Antarctica?

We chatted to Dr Nisha Mistry (now on RRS Sir David Attenborough) and Dr Becky Boys (was at Rothera Research Station) about practising medicine in the frozen South.

🎧 ICEWORLD podcast:
tinyurl.com/5xw4t3kd

We'd love to talk to you about how ice colour and reflectance can tell us about carbon storage :)

Meet the 2025 INSTANT Fellows!

🇦🇶 Giselle Lujan Marincovich – aerosols
🇦🇶 Camila Marin-Arias – methane release
🇦🇶 Yikai Zhu – ice shelf pinning points
🇦🇶 Alexander Bradley – tipping points

Congratulations!
scar.org/scar-news/pr...

Image description: A desk with a tablet, a notebook, a pen, and a cup of coffee. The EGU logo is visible on the notebook. With text reading: "How to present at a scientific conference', Watch the recording now available on YouTube!

The SciComm 101 #webinar introduced some of the fundamental practices and #tips for delivering oral and poster #presentations at scientific #conferences.

If you missed it, check out the recording now published on YouTube!
🔗: egu.eu/35YG6D

SOOSmap.aq not only makes it easy to access data from different sources…

…but also from different decades!

The Southern Ocean moored time series compiled by @oceaniceeu.bsky.social provides data since 1975!

Access temp, salinity & current velocity.

#SOOSMap_Month #SOOS_DATAMonday @bas.ac.uk

🆕 Check out our latest 'Researcher in the Spotlight' feature on Anastasiia Chyhareva, a meteorologist and climatologist at NASC in Ukraine.

🔎Learn more about Anastasiia here
ocean-ice.eu/researcher-i...

Check out this fact-packed and fascinating thread of 2024 climate chronically published by Nature last year

Great opportunities for polar educator researchers!

We see you!

Built some great 'Polar Bridges' @ 6th International Workshop for @polareducators.bsky.social #PEI2025-USA in Boulder #assw2025 #icarpiv @scottpolar.bsky.social @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social @iasc-arctic.bsky.social @scar-antarctic.bsky.social

Spectacular views of #Arctic #Spring pack ice enroute to #PEI2025-USA Boulder, Colorado #ASSW2025

World Day for Glaciers - a poem - ACEAS World Day for Glaciers – a poem A little poem written by Christina Schmidt to celebrate today’s World Day for Glaciers and World Poetry Day – Friday 21 March, 2025: – I have now seen the Denman Glacie...

Happy International Glacier/ Poetry Day!

For all ❄️🌊🧊🧪🇦🇶 friends, I highly recommend this wonderful poem by my amazing fellow @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social expeditioner @christinaocean.bsky.social

antarctic.org.au/world-day-fo...

#DenmanMarineVoyage
#Antarctics

Blog: First UN World Day for Glaciers – A call to climate action in desperate times Accelerating ice melt from glaciers worldwide means an increased loss of freshwater resources, ever-faster sea level rise and life-threatening floods and landslides. In some regions, ice loss is alrea...

www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-a...

New map of landscape beneath Antarctica unveiled The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

phys.org/news/2025-03...

Lots of over-heating #penguins & melting #ice at #Nottingham Central Library #science day with UKPN\ @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social #polar #outreach #education #Antarctica #Arctic

All publicity is good publicity?? @bas.ac.uk #polar #antarctica #education #outreach #globalwarming #what-happens-at-the-poles-affects-us-all

Looking forward to hearing all the Antarctic science updates from RSV Nuyina. Bon voyage from PEI! #polareducators #PEI #polar #education #antarctic

Plastics and Polar Oceans is just one of our themes for our workshop for polar educators - Join us in Boulder #ASSW2025 We're developing a section of the new IPY5 Polar Resource Book

Peter, it's great to see your work in this context!!!

It's not funny because it's true?

By the Time YouTube video by Science Moms

What do you think about this polar parents and guardians? youtu.be/8rnfywUFFSU?...

Hey polar educators! Wherever you are hiding, this is a safe, friendly space where you can share your polar education practice. I'm Sophie - the current President of PEI, our cool, international community (people who teach in and about earth's awesome polar regions). You are not alone!

Here's the science (in brief):

🌀 High-energy electrons spiral in Earth’s magnetic field, aka ‘plasma instability’
☢️ The spinning electrons emit radiation
🔊 Radiation is amplified by wave-particle interactions with other electrons, creating chorus waves...

... which sound like chirping birds! 🐦

Today - 23/01/2025 - BBC Sounds News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

👂 Or if you want to hear space’s dawn chorus for yourself, have a listen to his interview on Radio 4 earlier today: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (the segment starts at 2:56:20)

Have you heard there’s birdsong in space? 🐦

Chorus waves are electromagnetic bursts in space that sound like chirping birds (when converted to audio).

First observed in the 1960s at Halley Research Station in Antarctica, they’ve recently been detected in an unexpected region of space!