QRA funding
AntarcticGlaciers.org is very pleased to say that the Quaternary Research Association has agreed to fund and support our website!
Training for Antarctica
It’s now less than two months until we depart for Ablation Point, Alexander Island on the Antarctic Peninsula, and it’s important that you’re fit and healthy. I’ve been doing lots of exercise recently, and am trying to climb a mountain every weekend in preparation! Fortunately there are lots to choose from in Aberystwyth. You also …
Holocene climate and ice-shelf history on James Ross Island
A paper in this weeks’ Nature by Mulvaney et al. 2012 suggested that the climate around the Antarctic Peninsula has varied extensively over the Holocene. This data is derived from a 363.9 m ice core from the Mount Haddington Ice Cap on James Ross Island.
Greenland Melting
In this new website, www.greenlandmelting.com, you can browse maps of the surface melt on Greenland in each year from 1979. You can also look at years with extreme melt events, such as 2010 and 2011.
Google World Wonders
At the SCAR-OSC 2012, the Google World Wonders Project was launched, with panoramic views of Scott’s Hut in Antarctica. You can now explore the hut, and see what it was like when it was abandoned.
SCAR Fellowship
I’ve been awarded a SCAR Fellowship! I will be visiting the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington to research the impacts of Holocene climate change on small glaciers on James Ross Island. We will use this information to attempt to predict their future behaviour. I will be a visiting SCAR Fellow for 5 …
SCAR-OSC: Tom Bracegirdle
Dr Tom Bracegirdle from the British Antarctic Survey presented a plenary at the 2012 SCAR-OSC, where he showed us his projections for climate change and sea level rise over the next 100 years from his modelling experiments.
SCAR-OSC: Jane Francis
Professor Jane Francis from Leeds University gave a talk at the SCAR 2012 Open Science Conference on sea ice during the Cretaceous period.
SCAR-OSC 2012: Bob Bindschadler
The Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research Open Science Conference (SCAR-OSC) for 2012 is now over. Read on below for my summary and thoughts of the conference.
ISMASS Workshop (SCAR2012)
Busy day at the ISMASS Workshop here at SCAR 2012 (see here: ISMASS website). There were invited lectures from a number of prominent scientists, including Erik Ivins, Pippa Whitehouse, Jay Zwally, Catherine Ritz, Slawek Tulaczyk, Catia Domingues, and Robert Nicholls. For me, two talks stood out as exceptional.