Our new paper in Nature Communications provides the first field measurements of an Antarctic ice-shelf flexing due to the filling and draining of surface lakes. This may lead to fracture and break up: nature.com/articles/s4146… … Scott Polar Research Institute @ciresnews CU Boulder News & Experts St Catharine's College

Movie of a meltwater lake on the McMurdo Ice Shelf filling and draining: static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1… Produced from 3015 time lapse photos taken every 30 mins from late Nov 2016 to late Jan 2017. See here for full paper: nature.com/articles/s4146… Scott Polar Research Institute CIRES @nsidc @NSF_GEO

A nice article about our study - led by Doug MacAyeal - using seismometers to detect subsurface melting/freezing in Antarctica news.uchicago.edu/story/thousand…

A The University of Chicago article about our study - led by Prof Doug MacAyeal - showing seismic activity in response to surface and subsurface melting and refreezing in Antarctica: news.uchicago.edu/story/thousand… … … CIRES National Snow and Ice Data Center Scott Polar Research Institute #globalwarming #climatechange #Antarctica

Congratulations to my PhD student Grant Macdonald ❄️🌎🇦🇶 second first-author paper, out today! It describes the presence & formation of the peculiar 'pedestaled' relict lake features that we found on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, #Antarctica cambridge.org/core/services/…

Excited to start NSF/NERC funded fieldwork campaign on George VI Ice Shelf #Antarctica w/LAS, Doug MacAyeal, @ianwillis15 to help figure out how surface & subsurface meltwater causes ice shelf flexure & fracture. Please let us know about similar planned/ongoing work!

Will soon be returning to SPRI Scott Polar Research Institute after a successful month in Antarctica setting up instruments to measure lake filling and draining and ice shelf flexure over the next 2 years.

In contrast to the sunny photos I've shared so far, George VI Ice Shelf was usually grey, windy & cold (mean daytime temp: -10C/14F) during #fieldwork last month. We'll get accurate weather data from our automatic weather stations (AWS), like this one in the photo #G6LakesProject

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 on 30th Dec #r4today around 06:45 GMT to hear about our recent work in #Antarctica Scott Polar Research Institute

Wahoo got my first paper published at GRL! Check it out at agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.102… Dr. Alison Banwell Jan Lenaerts Stef Lhermitte Jasmine Hansen @EricKeenanCU Reinhard Drews Ian Willis Frank Pattyn - @[email protected]

Pleased to have made a small contribution to this paper documenting the drainage of a buried lake on an #Antarctic ice shelf. Well done Devon Dunmire Scott Polar Research Institute Cambridge Geography agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.102…

Using satellites to 'see in the dark', a team from Scott Polar Research Institute has found lakes on the #Greenland Ice Sheet drain huge amounts of water in winter. This could have major implications for the world's second-largest ice sheet: bit.ly/31za9d9 #ClimateChange #Arctic

Our paper documenting the winter drainage of #lakes on the #Greenland Ice Sheet using European Space Agency Sentinel 1 #satellites has just been published in The Cryosphere tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/15… The Cryosphere EGU European Space Agency ESA Earth Observation

Congratulations to Karla Boxall on her first published paper. We map the distribution of debris across glaciers in High Mountain Asia using an empirical relationship based on field measurements and satellite thermal data. Cambridge Geography frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our researchers, Ian Willis & Dr Rebecca Dell are on their way to Antarctica to retrieve data from instruments that were set up two years ago. They are currently quarantining in the Falkland Islands with their colleague Laura Stevens (Uni of Oxford). x.com/scottpolar/sta…

At last we reach #Antarctica to harvest data from instruments set up 2 years ago to measure water ponding and its effects on bending the floating George VI Ice Shelf. With Laura Stevens & Becky Dell Scott Polar Research Institute Cambridge Geography British Antarctic Survey 🐧 St Catharine's College

This week Scott Polar Research Institute are attending the European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium #LPS22 in Bonn. With presentations covering Antarctic meltwater ponding to the monitoring of sub-Arctic oil spills from space, come by and say hello if you’re attending! European Space Agency ESA Earth Observation

Excited to present our new nature paper! Our findings show that an ice sheet retreated at up to 600 m/day at the end of the last Ice Age. Read for free here: rdcu.be/c9eZ4 Frazer Christie Sasha Montelli Dr Jeff Evans NCL Physical Geog 1/6

Our recently published Int. Glaciol. Soc. paper features in Boulder's local newspaper today! Our study made the first field observations of #Antarctic ice-shelf fracture induced by the weight of a surface meltwater lake: doi.org/10.1017/jog.20… CIRES National Snow and Ice Data Center British Antarctic Survey 🐧 CU Boulder Arts and Sciences

Interested in the drivers of the recently observed seasonal land-ice-flow in Antarctica? Our new JGR-Earth Surface paper reveals summertime speed-up in the Antarctic Peninsula can be attributed to both surface and oceanic forcing. Read for free here: doi.org/10.1029/2023JF…