Report from the iSTAR Science Integration Meeting

The iSTAR programme is starting to ramp down, but the data are still being analysed, and new discoveries are still being made and published. On 18–19 May, we held the iSTAR Science Integration Meeting, our final science meeting, at the University of Leeds. Programme leader Andy Smith has written a brief report of the meeting, just published in Eos.

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Local weather impacts melting of one of Antarctica’s fastest-retreating glaciers

Local weather plays an important part in the retreat of the ice shelves in West Antarctica, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications. The study led by scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) of the Pine Island Glacier (PIG) used a unique five-year record to study how the interactions between… Read more »

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Report from Workshop on West Antarctica

The Royal Society hosted a workshop on “West Antarctica and future sea-level rise” on 3-4 March 2016. The final report of the meeting has now been published and can be downloaded here.

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Searching for moorings

Oceanographer Povl Abrahamsen continues his trip to the Amundsen Sea: When we travel down to the Amundsen Sea by ship, it is almost always at the height of summer, when there is least sea ice. We make our measurements, but that only gives us a snapshot of what goes on. In this area, we know… Read more »

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