Session 2.1 Polar life throughout the year: Effects of seasonality and climate change in Arctic regions hosted by Milan Beck and Lola Nader
#ICYMARE2026Bremen #polarlife #polarscience #climatechange #arctic #earlycareerconference #oceandecade

Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets
#Antarctica #ClimateChange #Environment #Science #IceShelves #SeaLevelRise #Oceans #ClimateResearch #GlobalWarming #PolarScience #EarthSystems #Ecology #Weather #MarineScience
https://the-14.com/beneath-antarcticas-largest-ice-shelf-a-hidden-ocean-is-revealing-its-secrets/

Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science
#Greenland #Environment #Arctic #ClimateScience #SeaLevelRise #IceSheets #GlobalWarming #ClimateScience #ClimateResearch #PolarScience #EnvironmentalPolitics #ClimateRisk #ClimateChange #Trump #USA
https://the-14.com/why-greenland-is-indispensable-to-global-climate-science/

Fun fact about Antarctic Peninsula. This region is warming faster than anywhere else on earth, experiencing a rise of nearly 3°C over the last decades. #ClimateChange #PolarScience #jrnyon Image Credit:@caughtincolour1 on instagram

Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station (USA)
☀️ The high today is a blistering -25°C with the sun circling overhead. While that sounds cold, it’s actually a beautiful "summer" day at the Pole. Winds are calm, and visibility is infinite across the polar plateau. Remember, you’re at nearly 3,000 m} of effective altitude, so take it slow! 📍
#SouthPole #Antarctica #AmundsenScott #ExtremeCold #PolarScience

Back at Basen*

LISA is alive! Kind of. We had a really good field test of the system in this, our first week in Antarctica (though thank goodness for satellite wifi connection** to the rest of the world so LISA’s genius creator Helle Kjær could assist in troubleshooting). It was a bit of a struggle and I would say we came out partial winners, with a much deeper understanding of how the box is actually put together and more importantly some really interesting data (yay!) that Clement is busy processing already – I’m very excited to see how it turns out as it will help to direct our following field sorties.

This is the first field deployment of LISA in Antarctica, and even if she didn’t give up all the secrets of the snow, it’s still an achievement worth celebrating that we got half of it, and an interesting half too.

We chose a coring site around 60km from Wasa, so it was a long slow snow-scooter tour up Plogbreen (the plough glacier – named after our neighbouring nunatak Plogen, the plough) and on to the flat plateau of Ritscher Flya at about 1000m elevation.

It was a pretty wind and snowy site, in a katabatic wind zone (thankfully not too strong on this trip), which was intentional, as one of the aims of our study is the effects of strong winds on snow accumulation. As preparing to leave took most of the day (especially doing the chemistry mixes for LISA), we headed up in the afternoon and then stayed out overnight in these fantastic little cabins on skis.

The Polar Research institute in Sweden calls them arks and they are really a very nice solution to the problem of cold and wind and trying to work in quite extreme conditions. Pulled by a snow-scooter and with a stove inside for melting snow and heating, they’re really very cosy to sleep in and it makes a big difference to be able to warm up when for example you’ve been sitting in a snow pit at -15C with a hefty wind chill on top and are covered in spin drift snow (as me how I know).

We were greeted by this beautiful halo around the sun upon waking, with sun dogs on either side, caused by the ice crystals in the sky. In fact we nick-named the site diamond dust because of the clear sky precipitation on the first morning.

We soon got into a good rhythm with Henrik driving the coring, Clement logging and Ninis and myself assisting with the cores.

And then it was time to get LISA going and a very long and slightly frustrating day followed. Thankfully, by bedtime and having reconstructed quite a lot of the inner tubing of the box, we got LISA ready for work the next day.

I dug a snow pit – always one of my favourite activities, it’s good to get your hands in the snow and really feel what is going on, and we identified some really intriguing layers. Lots more work to be done there to work out what is going on.

As added entertainment, Ninis was interviewed live from the top of the ice sheet by Swedish TV live from the fieldcamp (check out God Morgon Sverige on TV4, 23rd December if you’re interested). However, after 2 nights out it was time to pack up and head back, 3 cores worth of data richer, for a shower, laundry and a Christmas Eve day off.

On Christmas eve daytime it was my turn with a brief 2 minutes to explain our project on Danish TV2 news (at 12.15 CET in case you have an account and would like to see me looking wind swept). Juleaften, Christmas Eve, is the big day of celebration in the Nordic countries, so we took an almost day off, doing some washing, cleaning the living modules and enjoying plenty of good food courtesy of the Swedish chef Raymond who prepared a Christmas dinner feast later, perfect after a long Christmas hike over the nunatak.

Field Photos

Given the current state of the US administration I think it’s worth thinking about what services we use, to become less dependent on US tech and social media companies. Therefore, I’m sharing photos over on pixelfed while we’re out here, in case you want to see more field photos, though sharing is a bit intermittent as it depends on the internet link and due to the expense of the data, we’re trying not to use too much.

I am also posting over on blue sky, though there is much that makes me uneasy about that platform, so I will keep posting on the fediscience server on mastodon too (and indeed the quality of interaction is often better there strangely, given I feel that the platform is smaller than blue sky).

*The Swedish research station Wasa is located on a nunatak in Antarctica called Basen (it’s pronounced Baasen, like the sound a sheep makes in english)

**Yes we are on starlink. It’s incredibly impressive performance wise, but I’d rather not be supporting the nazi man-child, the sooner Eutel Oneweb makes an alternative for users like us, the better, though preferably without this polluting a footprint in low earth orbit. In fact if any EUTEL folks are reading this, I’d be delighted to test out a lightweight system for polar field scientists for you 🙂

#Antarctica #climate #climateChange #fieldWork #ice #iceCore #iQ2300 #polarScience #Science

Peter Wadhams reflects on decades of polar ice science, the urgent loss of sea ice, and the growing climate crisis. “What’s happening now is surprising—the speed at which the system is falling apart.” #ClimateEmergency #PolarScience https://youtu.be/Kd3RTm4yk2E

Budget cuts are forcing the U.S. icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer out of service, threatening vital Antarctic research. #Antarctica #PolarScience #USAP https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/climate/nathaniel-b-palmer-ship-budget-cuts-polar-science.html

Interesting piece in Nature last week about Antarctic research infrastructure. China has just opened it's fifth station, as the US retreats from science in general, and especially polar research. Many countries in Europe are also rather weakly present in the Antarctic, and there is no common EU programme.

In Denmark, we haven't even ratified the Madrid protocols for environmental protection of Antarctica, never mind signed the Antarctic Treaty. In spite of the actually rather strong Danish input to Antarctic research in general - much of which is driven by the fact that our future sea level rise will be largely determined by what happens in the Antarctic.

#Antarctica #PolarREsearch #ArcticScience #PolarScience
Edit: broken link, apologies, try this
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02157-x

Session 3.2 Polar Regions in a Changing Climate hosted by Naomi Krauzig, Marwa Baloza and Gabriel Akoko Juma
Submit your abstract now to join #ICYMARE2025
https://www.icymare.com/about-the-conference/call-for-abstracts/
#callforabstracts #polarscience #climatechange #oceanconservation #icymare #oceanscience #oceandecade #marinescience #earlycareerresearchers

🆕Check out our latest 'Researcher in the Spotlight' feature on Max Brils , a post-doctoral researcher working at Northumbria University. 🧊

Learn more about Max here: https://ocean-ice.eu/researcher-in-the-spotlight-max-brils/

#polarscience #icesheet

"A shocking 79% of female scientists have negative experiences during polar field work."

There has been open acknowledegement for years that polar fieldwork is a dangerous shit show for women. Does anyone know if any of the national programs have implemented policies that are working?

#Antarctica #Arctic #PolarScience

https://theconversation.com/a-shocking-79-of-female-scientists-have-negative-experiences-during-polar-field-work-221879

📢 Event alert: How do ❄️polar scientists 🥼 contribute to decision making and policy? (And how do ECRs get involved in this?)

We are hosting three events 🗓️ to give you a crash-course overview of this topic as well as the opportunity to talk to some experts directly. You can attend as many or few of the events as you like, all times are in CEST (Berlin time).

https://apecs-germany.de/lets-talk-polar-policy-and-governance/

#PolarScience #Antarctica #Arctic #SOOS #CCAMLR #ASOC #SCAR #AntarcticTreaty #ArcticCouncil #PolarPolicy

We have just posted an event summary of our Let’s talk Polar Careers outside Academia on our website!✨
You missed our recent Let’s talk event? Fear not! We just published a small summary post on our website with the main lessons learned including the links people shared during the seminar 🖥️📑
… and spoiler alert: this won’t be the last seminar we organise or resource we share on the topic of polar careers. Stay tuned! 👀

#polarscience #earlycareer

Link to post ⬇️
https://apecs-germany.de/event-summary-lets-talk-polar-careers-outside-academia/

Our call for Sessions is still open until the end of the month so if YOU want to host a session about YOUR field of research at ICYMARE 2024 in Bremen, now is the time to apply! 🐳

If you want to join the #ICYMAREfamily, follow the link below to find more information about the application process and access to our conference tool:
https://www.icymare.com/about-the-conference/call-for-sessions/

#marinebiology #marinescience #icymarefamily #icymare2024 #icymare #polarscience #coralreefs #oceanography #science #earlycareer #arctic

I posted a blog today about new positions available in our #PRECISE project, there's a lot of crossover with the @OceanIceEU project too - take a look if you want to work in some.of the coolest parts of the planet...

https://fediscience.org/@OceanIceEU/111732671468712423
OceanIceEU - 📢 @OceanIceEU is recruiting!

@bas_news is searching for a Physical Oceanographer 🌊

📅 Deadline to apply: 7 February 2024 ➡️ https://bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/vacancy/568/Physical-Oceanographer

#JobAlert #vacancy #recruiting #PolarScience #ocean #ice #tracers

📢 @OceanIceEU is recruiting!

@bas_news is searching for a Physical Oceanographer 🌊

📅 Deadline to apply: 7 February 2024 ➡️ https://bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/vacancy/568/Physical-Oceanographer

#JobAlert #vacancy #recruiting #PolarScience #ocean #ice #tracers

For #AntarcticaDay, enjoy a free download of the @UCLPress book #Antarcticness (2022) https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/180739

#Antarctic #Antarctica #Arctic #PolarScience #PolarResearch #polar #OpenAccess #art #science #artscience #scienceart

I knew about that Zelinka 2020 article but I am only now fully reading it. Nice to see another clue that studying Polar Oceans as we do in @CRiceS is important - the latest generation of climate models (CMIP6) predict more warming than the one just before (CMIP5) because of stronger cloud feedbacks over the polar oceans (that black line shows the CMIP6-CMIP5 cloud feedback difference, see how high it is over latitude 60N and below 50S). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085782 #PolarScience #ClimateChange