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Fishing for a glacier's secrets

Fishing for
a glacier's
secrets

It’s an ice fishing trip like no other.

A five-metre long drill. More than a kilometre of line. On a glacier tongue over an unmapped ocean. The mission: to suspend a string of sensors under the ice that will monitor the temperature, salinity and currents of the ocean below, every hour for the next few years.

How to drill an ice shelf — and why

How to drill
an ice shelf
— and why

Christmas Day 2023. While many of us are at the beach or around the barbie, a plucky team of four scientists and a polar field guide pitch their tents at what must be the world’s most remote campsite: the Shackleton ice shelf.

Successful mooring deployment to unlock deep secrets of glacier stability

29 Jan 2025

Successful mooring deployment to unlock deep secrets of glacier stability The successful deployment of a deep-water mooring line in between the Scott and Denman Glaciers will feed back critical long-term data on the area’s warming waters, giving researchers new insights into the drivers of potential ice melt. In a breakthrough moment of the Denman Terrestrial […]

Melting at the fringes

17 Jan 2025

Melting at the fringes When it comes to melting ice, the process in the oceans isn’t as straightforward as it is in a glass of water. In a new review, scientists reveal the multitude of ocean processes that contribute to ice shelf melt. The combined effect of these processes will determine future climate and sea-level […]

Revealing the Underbelly: Antarctic Under-Ice Ocean

10 Jan 2025

Revealing the Underbelly: Antarctic Under-Ice Ocean The Southern Ocean plays a vital role in regulating Earth’s climate, yet its icy depths have long remained shrouded in mystery. Now, a groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (JGR Oceans) has provided a new observation-based dataset that sheds light on this hidden world, including during […]

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