By Domino Jones This painting is inspired by discussions on accessibility in polar research that I’ve encountered at conferences over the past year. Accessibility is necessary to achieve a full understanding of polar regions. In the Arctic, this means recognising and elevating indigenous cultures, knowledge, and livelihoods. This is reflected in the first panel, featuring …
By Domino Jones This road map gives insight into Liz Bagshaw’s years of experience leading expeditions to some of the most remote places on Earth. From battling the ice with a chainsaw to meticulously washing plastic baggies, field work is both challenging and rewarding. During our interview, Liz highlighted the importance of a well-timed nap. …
By Domino Jones These pages show Rachel Carr’s funny experience with penguins on her trip to Cape Hallet, a research station in Antarctica. The station was built on a site of outstanding biodiversity in 1956, with a small patch of particularly rich vegetation which supports a variety of land animals. It is the home of …
By Gunjan Silwal, OnePlanet Doctoral Student I am undertaking a PhD in glaciology at Newcastle University, focusing on quantifying glacier disconnection, fragmentation, and separation, and assessing their impact on glacier mass loss and ice flow in the Himalayas. My PhD involves high altitude fieldwork in inaccessible regions in Nepal. In November 2024, I conducted glacier …
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In June 2023, as part of our Deplete and Retreat project, Jeremy Ely, Tom Matthews, Wouter Buytaert and Jose Cuadros-Adriazola travelled to La Paz, Bolivia, to scope the installation of hydrological loggers and our automatic weather station at Zongo Glacier and Ancohoma, Bolivia. See more of our Deplete and Retreat News here. We met with, …
By Gunjan Silwal, Newcastle University There are many ways to study glaciers and their behaviour. We can observe glaciers through satellites and aerial photographs, we can measure velocity, volume and area changes, and we can observe glacier structures. But visiting glaciers, and working directly on them during fieldwork, offers scientists an opportunity to directly observe …
By Anna Fatta Each summer, students from universities across the world join the Juneau Icefield Research Program to undertake research on Juneau Icefield, Alaska. This fieldwork means living on the Icefield for several months at a time, working with scientists to undertake a program of glaciological, geological and climatological measurements. Here, Anna Fatta describes what …
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Bethan Davies and Becky McCerery This article is aimed at both people who menstruate, and also fieldwork leaders who wish to better support their team. Menstruation is still sometimes seen as a taboo topic but it is something a menstruating person will have to consider when planning or undergoing fieldwork in remote environments. We need …
In 2022, Bethan Davies participated as faculty in the Juneau Icefield Research Program in Alaska. Here, Sofia Guest, a student on the program, reflects on her experience and how she learned about safety in hazardous mountainous environments. My name is Sofia, and I am a recent Environmental Sciences graduate from the University of Alberta. A …
Safety on Glaciers and Icefields: Juneau Icefield, Alaska Read More »
Article written by Alex Clark (Royal Holloway University of London) Fieldwork is all about making discoveries. It’s an opportunity to take what you have learned at your desk and see for yourself if it is true, or if there is more to be said. Usually, it is the latter. Though probably not at the top …
