2015 started with a bang for the iSTAR team as strong winds swept in across Pine Island Glacier. Here Isabel Nias describes how everyone had to batten down the hatches: I always thought that seeing in the New Year on Pine Island Glacier would be one to remember purely due to the location. However, I… Read more »
Read Full »Drilling into history
One of the components of this season’s research programme on Pine Island Glacier is the ice core drilling. Here Becky Tuckwell explains how it works: Ice cores from Antarctica are important to help unlock past climate records and to reveal historic records of snow accumulation to name but two of their important uses. But drilling… Read more »
Read Full »Bake off in Antarctica
The latest blog to come from Pine Island Glacier has been written by Isabel Nias, a PhD geography student from the University of Bristol. She describes the challenges of cooking up a feast for the iSTAR participants: While the reason we are here on Pine Island Glacier is to do science, a major operation… Read more »
Read Full »Return to the icy wilderness
Damon Davies, a postgraduate student in Geosciences from the University of Edinburgh, has returned to Pine Island Glacier for a second year to help carry out probes of the ice. Here he reports on his first few days back on the glacier: Greetings from a cold and windy Pine Island Glacier. The second iSTAR traverse… Read more »
Read Full »Another report from the field
Emma Smith, a geophysical glaciologist, has filed this update from Pine Island Glacier: After nearly two weeks at the first field site (iSTAR 20) all twelve of the team were finally present, the first of the ice cores was drilled and it was time to set off on our first traverse to the next site…. Read more »
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