The iSTAR programme, which is looking at the stability of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, is featured in a new set of British Antarctic Territory postage stamps. Four stamps have been printed showing different aspects of the programme’s first science season. They will be on sale at British research stations in Antarctica and the Falkland… Read more »
Read Full »View from the ice
Sebastian Rosier, a glaciologist on the iSTAR team, describes his first few days on Pine Island Glacier: “It seems like no time at all since I was sitting nervously in my supervisor’s office, wondering what I’d done that was so terrible that he’d asked me to close the door behind me, only for him to… Read more »
Read Full »iSTAR new season under way
A team of twelve scientists and support staff has arrived on Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica in the second stage of an ambitious research project to investigate why the glacier is retreating faster than any other in the world. Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the iSTAR programme brings together leading scientists from… Read more »
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Data from research cruise analysed
iSTAR cruise update This year’s iSTAR research cruise has been hailed a success by project leaders. Twenty-four scientists and engineers set sail, from Punta Arenas in Chile, on the RRS James Clark Ross at the end of January. Less than a week later they arrived in Pine Island Bay to carry out the ocean related… Read more »
Read Full »New research on Pine Island Glacier published
New research has been published suggesting Pine Island Glacier will continue thinning at its current rate for decades to come. The study, a collaborative project funded by NERC, also suggests the Glacier thinned rapidly 8000 years ago. You can read more here: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=2514
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