Blog Archives
News Release: Climate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet
News Release Climate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet 9 May 2012 PR No. 02/2012 Reporting this week (Thursday 10 May) in the journal Nature, scientists … read more
News Release: Ice2sea researchers discover warm ocean currents are causing the majority of ice loss from Antarctica
PR No. 01/2012 Reporting this week (Thursday 26 April) in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists from ice2sea has established that warm ocean currents are the dominant cause … read more
Enhancement factors for grounded ice and ice-shelf
One of the most outstanding features of ice crystals is that no two have ever been found to be alike despite their simple, six-sided symmetry – but this beautiful shape … read more
Public Service Review article on ice2sea
An article has been published on ice2sea science in Issue 14 of the Public Service Review: European Science and Technology. The article follows an interview with Co-ordinator David Vaughan and discusses … read more
Ice2sea introductory video
A video by David Vaughan introducing ice2sea and describing the project aims is now available on the front page of the website – watch it here.
Scott’s Anniversary
The 17th of January 2012 was the one hundredth Anniversary of the day that Captain Robert Scott reached the South Pole, only a few days after Roald Amundsen. David Vaughan … read more
Merry Christmas
The ice2sea Programme Office wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2012.
Communications Co-ordinator
We welcome Heather Martin to the project, as a dedicated communications and dissemination co-ordinator. Heather is part of the British Antarctic Survey Communications Team and can be contacted at heather.martin@bas.ac.uk.
Open Forum 2012
The ice2sea Open Forum 2012 registration is now open. Please visit https://secure.antarctica.ac.uk/conference/ice2sea2012/. Dates are 14th-16th February 2012, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam. Registration deadline Friday 23rd December. There is … read more
EGU Outstanding Young Scientist Award
Gaël Durand, and ice2sea research scientist at CNRS, Univ. of Grenoble, France, has been awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the EGU Division on Cryospheric Sciences for his contributions in the … read more
