In this interview, Guy Paxman and Bethan Davies discuss the hidden landscapes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, and why this is important for understanding the polar ice sheet. In this video, Dr Guy Paxman and Dr Bethan Davies discuss the exciting hidden mountains and valleys underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. This landscape is covered by […]
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Click the image below to access the Hidden Landscapes of Greenland StoryMap Collection The Greenland StoryMap Collection was a collaboration between Guy Paxman, Edmund Lea and Bethan Davies.
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The Greenland StoryMap Collection targets the following areas of the 2023-2024 AQA Geography A-Level specifications. 1: Physical Geography: Water and Carbon Cycles The water cycle: Cryosphere. The StoryMaps introduce students to the Greenland Ice Sheet, a major component of the global cryosphere and a significant store of water (7% of the Earth’s freshwater). Students will
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Here is a scheme of work to aid teachers in lesson planning for A-Level Geography (16-18 years old). This scheme of work covers three A-Level lessons, each assumed to be one double lesson long. Lesson One covers StoryMap 1: Where is Greenland. Lesson Two covers StoryMap 2: What lies beneath the ice of Greenland? Lesson
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Introducing the Hidden Landscapes of Greenland StoryMap Collection Here is a collection of four Greenland StoryMaps covering the landscape beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, launched as a collection in May 2024. They are suitable for UK GCSE to A-level (age ~16 to 18). The StoryMaps are presented alongside supportive material including a video interview, images
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By Alex Hyde The sub-tropical glaciers of Bhutan Bhutan is a small mountainous nation located in the Eastern Himalaya, with a population of around 727 000 people (Figure 1). The country has a sub-tropical climate in its south, where it borders lowland plains, and a Himalayan subalpine climate to the north where it meets the
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The Earth receives most of its heat energy as a direct source from the sun. This is known as insolation. However this insolation is not evenly distributed around the globe [1,2]. Areas in the equatorial region receive a surplus of energy, and areas in the higher latitudes, have an energy deficit. This is caused mostly
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This page includes a series of four Antarctica StoryMap Collections introducing Antarctica, launched as a complete collection in September 2021. They are suitable for UK key stage 3 to GCSE (age ~14 to 16). However, they can easily be adapted by a teacher for older age groups and form the basis of discussion. The Antarctica
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The outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are receding, calving more icebergs, and flowing faster. Further in land, the ice sheet is thinning, and there is more surface melt. The Greenland Ice Sheet is drained by outlet glaciers that flow through deep fjords to the ocean. In the image below, you can see an
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The Antarctic and Arctic regions are polar opposites in more ways than one. These two regions have differences in the volume of ice, their climate, their seasonality, and much more. One important feature which separates the Arctic and Antarctic regions is their sea ice, and in particular how it changes over the year and its
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