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Barnaby bear

Introducing the youngest and perhaps most important member of the science team! He is, of course, the mascot from Eaton Primary in Norwich, our very own Barnaby Bear. Today he got a prestigious mention...

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Seagliders are go!

Overnight we sailed east of Burke Island, with ice caps in sight on both sides of the ship at some points, collecting new ocean depth data and more CTD data. We have left the sea ice behind now, and...

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Barnaby helps launch the Seaglider

Yesterday we were very excited to launch our first Seaglider, ‘Humpback’. And a certain bear was very excited to help out! Here he is helping Louise to check the cables are all properly fastened and...

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Icebergs ahead!

by Povl Abrahamsen In October 2011 a NASA airplane flying over Pine Island Glacier observed a large crack going all the way across the ice. This was the first sign that the glacier was about to calve a...

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Weather in Antarctica

Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth; snow and ice cover 98% of the land surface! Recently, satellite data recorded a new record low temperature of below -90°C on the vast East Antarctica ice...

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Blubbery friends: seals provide insight into their icy world

Written by Michael Fedak, seal biologist at St. Andrews. While the ocean2ice project has at its heart the highly focused goal of understanding the future behaviour of the Pine Island Glacier, much of...

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Working in an extreme environment

Whilst we’ve been out of main internet contact, we have still been receiving daily news reports of what’s going on back at home – and the weather in the UK has been consistently making headline news....

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Seal tagging part 2

Written by Mike Fedak. After a long stretch of physical oceanographic work, on February 23rd, we got a suitable time window to once again try to catch seals and attach CTD-SRDLs. Our original plan was...

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Pancakes all around!

We have been surrounded by pancakes for the past few days now – but of the ice variety rather than the culinary! Pancake ice is just one stage of many in the route that sea ice takes to form the more...

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Cruise summary

Now that the research voyage is nearing its end, what has been achieved by the team of 24 scientists and engineers? We’re delighted by the quantity and quality of the observations and data sets that...

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