What’s under the unstable Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica? International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration and AWI Media went on an epic journey to find out.

Over a huge continuous area they did:
📏 350km of survey
🎙️ pulling 480 geophones
🚡 on 1.5km of cable

Here's the full story 📰
bas.ac.uk/media-post/new…

Couldn't make our #ThwaitesGlacier press conference at #EGU24 ?

Great news - you can watch online and see the fantastic Olaf Eisen @[email protected] and Rob Larter talk about their exciting findings about the bed under the ice and what it means for the future of Thwaites.

youtu.be/bVRx5Ngl_U0?si…

Their aim is to better predict how much and how fast sea level might rise over the next century as a result of #ClimateChange .

Geology professor Nick Holschuh gives us a peek into his trip to Antarctica, where he conducted research with International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. bit.ly/3vVKL42

We are so proud to see our own Emma Pearce in the spotlight! Maybe you remember her recent post about her fieldwork ⏩ blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2…

It was all smiles at the #FromIceSheetsToTheCoastMeeting at University of Houston last week, where people from a wide range of disciplines met to discuss causes, effects and adaptation to sea-level rise

Looking forward to sharing some great science this week #EGU2024

I'm very excited to be presenting some new International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration work at #EGU24 next Wednesday! You can find me in Session CR1.3 'East and West Antarctica’s responses to climate change, past present and future.' Do any of y'all have any EGU/Vienna dos and don'ts for an EGU newbie?

'When do you get to live somewhere this cool, for this long?'

Did you catch the latest episode of British Antarctic Survey 🐧 podcast, Iceworld? They talk extreme camping and rolling sledges - and it even features Thwaites Glacier!

🎧 Find ICEWORLD on your fave podcast app

📷Ed Luke

Had an fascinating time today, giving oral evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research 🇦🇶. Lots of interest in Natural Environment Research Council and International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration ❄️ 😊
Listen again here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/01… British Antarctic Survey 🐧 #climate #Antarctica

Where art meets science 🎨🤝🛰️

Gifts from the Glacier is a series of paintings of Antarctica, inspired by satellite images of Thwaites Glacier.

Previewing this Saturday:

📅Saturday 16 March
⏰1.30pm
📌Danum Gallery, Waterdale, Doncaster

Remember when Sif Island was discovered between Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers by scientists on a International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration cruise in 2020? You can read all about the geology of this tiny island in a study led by Imperial Earth Science & Engineering postdoc Jim Marschalek here: doi.org/10.1017/S09541…

❄️🚨cool new research alert🚨❄️

The final International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration field season has wrapped up, marking the end of 5 years of research. The team have discovered some incredible things along the way and we're excited to see the results of this season's research.

ow.ly/5Jzq50QHRof

📸Marianne Karplus

It is a dingle day here in the Weddell Sea. Some grease ice forming and a little fog in the distance. Low sun gives a bit of a shadow of the Sir David Attenborough. Antarctica at it's best

Seal tagging started with a bang. Young male elephant seal on an ice floe and a Weddell seal as well later.
SMRU Instrumentation tags working well.

#AntarcticPICCOLO
@Roses_ocean Plymouth Marine Lab University of St Andrews British Antarctic Survey 🐧 SMRU
UEA

Ran the robot has gone missing in action, under Thwaites Glacier 😲

The 7m long, bright orange AUV didn't resurface at the meeting point and searches with drones, acoustics and helicopter were fruitless.

thwaitesglacier.org/news/final-mis…

📸Uni of Gothenberg

Joanne Johnson International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration Baby steps to get to deeper coring, but yes this will be a start!! We are underway.