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 »
Read Full »Stamp of approval for iSTAR
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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