Breaking ice and visiting volcanoes A wrap-up of the EASI-3 RV Polarstern voyage: East Antarctic Ice Sheet instability and its interaction with changes in the Southern Ocean By Katharina Hochmuth “Almost 42 years old and RV Polarstern is still up […]

MISO investigates how the Southern Ocean is responding to climate change The recently returned MISO voyage (Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Southern Ocean) was a 2-month journey along the edge of Antarctica on the RV Investigator. The scientists on-board gathered one […]

Good things don’t come in threes for Antarctic sea ice As this month marks the third consecutive summer with extremely low sea-ice cover around Antarctica, new statistical research points to fundamental changes taking place in the polar Southern Ocean. Antarctic […]

Melting from below: explaining the complex nature of ice sheet dynamics and geology to kids and tweens The article frames the abstract on ice sheet dynamics into understandable language and relatable problems. Image: ‘Geothermal Heat Shapes the Antarctic Ice Sheet […]

News from the Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Southern Ocean (MISO) voyage The ACEAS team aboard the RV Investigator for the MISO voyage (from left to right: PhD Talitha Nelson, PhD Julia Neme, PhD Anita Butterley, Dr. Kaihe Yamazaki, Dr. Thomas […]