Well it’s time to head north - and as we do it has decided to snow so our little icebreaker looks like (northern hemisphere) Christmas .. likely no more sea ice or bergs … we likely have some proper waves ahead for the 6 day transit… although there is a path through the waves #Antarctica#Climate#Oceanography
a few days back I was in my cabin on an icebreaker rambling over WhatsApp to a reporter and she made something coherent emerge.
here's something beyond the incomprehensibly beautiful scenes we've had the privilege to witness #climate#oceanography#Antarctica#SeaIce
More from the research voyage: these puppies grew on our gear that had spent a year at 2km depth in the oceans - Anthoathecata (thecate hydroids) - I'm told. Dunno why people focus on aliens from other planets when these folks are pootling around in the depths #oceanography#Antarctica This is them in water - image about 5 cm across.
Kicking off the #WMO#polar and high mountain regions committee meeting in Oslo this morning. Long pre-meeting on #Antarctica yesterday to determine policy and strategy was pretty successful. Hoping it will get passed by full panel today.
WMO president Celeste Sauto giving us an online welcome. #PHORS24#ClimateDiary
It's winter half term holiday + I'm on my way to #Norway, not sadly with family but for a high level meeting of the #WMO#polar and high mountain regions committee.
Interesting + important meeting as we ramp up our #Antarctica efforts + seek to support preparations for @wcrp_climate#CMIP7
The sun finally came out... we are at 74S in about 600 m of water measuring the cold, salty oxygen-rich water draining north to replenish the global ocean. A process that seems to be changing. #climate#Oceanography#Antarctica
" ... for the stories we tell to recognize life in all beings—seen and unseen, seemingly inert and otherwise—we have to dwell in place long enough to notice when change is afoot." —Elizabeth Rush for @emergencemagazine
A very cool talk this week at GEOTOP by André Pellerin, University of Quebc at Rimouski. He spoke on the strange chemistry and biology of Lake Untersee, east Antarctica. This lake is perpetually ice-covered and the bottom covered with #stromatolites (microbial mats) similar to those found in ecosystems three billion years in Earth's past. #UCAR#Antarctica#Rimouski#Quebec#Archean#GEOTOP