❗️❗️❗️Are you as excited about the upcoming #ESA #CRISTAL mission and estimating snow depth from dual-frequency altimetry along the orbits as us? We've evaluated this possiblity - albeit from laser and radar - from Arctic #CRYO2ICE orbits for 2020-2022! ➡️agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Had a fab week in Barcelona at the UN Ocean Decade Conference, highlighting the importance of polar oceans in global climate, & showcasing the amazing work of BIOPOLE with colleagues from British Antarctic Survey 🐧. Thanks again to BIOPOLE for the opportunity❄️

BIG NEWS!

Abstract submissions for the #Cryo2ice symposium open 1⃣ April

We want work relating to #CryoSat , #ICESat2 or both!

Themes:
🌊🧊 Sea ice
🧊🧝 Ice sheets and ice shelves
🏔️🧊 Mountain glaciers and ice caps
🌊🫧 Oceans and hydrology
➕ more!

cryo2ice-symposium.org

Great to end the day watching CPOM Northumbria Uni's Inès Otosaka absolutely smashing it giving expert evidence at Environmental Audit Committee's Antarctica inquiry, go Inès!

Ahead of #internationalwomensday tomorrow we wanted to continue celebrating our #womenscientists at CPOM.

In this video we give a brief history of women in #polar science and introduce you to some of our Investigators leading the way in #polar observation and modelling in 2024.

Just in from our colleagues at European Space Agency's Earth Observation centre outside Rome: footage of the ERS-2 satellite passing over the area yesterday😍🛰️

In the video you can see the fly-by in real speed and slowed down to a quarter of that speed (the satellite was in and out of the frame…

Global surveyors in space!
NASA Earth lasers on GEDI ICESat-2 have revealed major changes in Earth's climate over last 20 years.
w/Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 and Lori Magruder Helen Amanda Fricker ❄️❄️ ❄️ Beata Csatho Laura Duncanson Sahra Kacimi Amy Neuenschwander
Free: rdcu.be/dxiB7

The culmination of almost 2 years of work involving multiple institutions internationally, and two CPOM researchers. Find out why 'old snow' is so important ❄

It’s also really hard to beat Italian sightseeing🇮🇹

Coming to the end of another fantastic week of my 3-month research visit at ESA ESRIN. I’m working on the next stage of my PhD research, continuing to investigate and (hopefully!) improve on satellite retrievals of Arctic sea ice. Very grateful for this opportunity🛰️

Nature research paper: Ubiquitous acceleration in Greenland Ice Sheet calving from 1985 to 2022 go.nature.com/47Dxo5x

So it turns out that the A23a mega iceberg has been slowly melting all along, and that's why it was set free from its temporary home on Berkner Bank

Seems the ocean is about 0.25°C above freezing

Even the coldest parts of out planet are warming

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Great to attend the EC-ESA Joint Earth System Science Initiative last week at ESA Earth Observation. Fantastic to see such great projects and collaborations throughout the meeting. And of course the lovely location in Rome was a bonus!

🤩 CryoSat lives! 🤩

⛽️ A fuel leak threatened to bring European Space Agency's ice mission to a premature end
🕹️ At European Space Agencyoperations yesterday, we swapped to its back-up propulsion system
🥵 The back-up thrusters had never been used before, in over 13 years in space...

🥳 ...and it was a…

Do you have outstanding communication skills, creativity, and the ability to translate complex scientific research into compelling content? CPOM are hiring a Research Communications Officer.
If you are interested, please get in touch!
cpom.org.uk/working-with-c…

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT

How could this happen? I feel like someone has plunged a dagger into my heart.

This is one of England's most iconic trees. A symbol of Northumberland. Part of the historic landscape.

So much more than a tree.

My paper about supergiant #Antarctic #iceberg A68 and its impact on the surface ocean is out today! 🧊 The iceberg’s meltwater plume stretched >1,000 km across the South Atlantic and persisted for >2 months 😮
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
bas.ac.uk/media-post/sup…

I am thrilled to announce that the very wonderful Sammie Buzzard, Inès Otosaka, and Rosie Willatt will be joining Geog & Env Sciences and CPOM as our latest faculty hires !!!