📣 Submissions for papers for the International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR2026) hosted at @northumbriauni.bsky.social has been extended to 23.2.26. 🔗https://gpr2026.org/index.shtml

🔬Verifying GPR data with ice cores and refractometers 📹Here is the final instalment of our 5 part series from @alibanwell.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu in #Antarctica 👏Thank you Ali Banwell, Ryan Cassotto, Michela Savignano and Allie Berry for sharing this incredible work with CPOM!

📣 New research by Rachel Tilling examines how different satellites track Arctic sea ice 'leads' and 'floes'. This is crucial for understanding how sea ice is changing seasonally and over the longer-term. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

❄️Part 4 - Ground Penetrating Radar🧊 CPOM's @alibanwell.bsky.social (@cires.colorado.edu / @northumbriauni.bsky.social) recently visited #Antarctica as part of an NSF-funded project studying the Ice Rumple Zone of the McMurdo Ice Shelf. Here is their most recent video update from #Antarctica 👇

🌨️How do scientists use automatic weather stations in polar research and what data to they capture?🌎 @alibanwell.bsky.social (@northumbriauni.bsky.social & @cires.colorado.edu) is part of a research team using a range of observation technique in #Antarctica. Part 4 coming soon!

🌎What is Terrestrial Radar Interferometry? And how can it be used to study ice shelves?🧊 @alibanwell.bsky.social (@northumbriauni.bsky.social & @cires.colorado.edu) is part of a research team using a range of observation technique in #Antarctica. Part 3 coming soon!

🖥️The BISICLES ice sheet model and Adaptive Mesh Refinement🌐 📽️Tom Mitcham and @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social talk about the BISICLES ice sheet model and why it's a really useful tool for studying Antarctica 👇 🔗Find out more: cpom.org.uk/from-monitor...

Fieldwork in Innsbruck - Part 2 🏔️ PhD researcher Marlena travelled 24 hours by train from Newcastle to Innsbruck to test drone-based mapping in alpine conditions. This 60-second film shows the tough but amazing fieldwork experience in figures. 💪

This video explains the NSF-funded project to study the Ice Rumple Zone of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica - a compressive region of the ice shelf characterized by undulating ice. @cires.colorado.edu and @cpom-uk.bsky.social Professor @alibanwell.bsky.social.

📢 Application Deadline Extended The NZPS-DTP application deadline has been extended to 09.00 GMT Monday 12 January 2026. The extension is due to a temporary website outage, but the website is now fully operational. If you were planning to apply or know someone who is, there's still time!

Professor @alibanwell.bsky.social (University of Colorado Boulder & @northumbriauni.bsky.social) is currently conducting field research in Antarctica, with a team of scientists from @cires.colorado.edu, The University of Colorado and Uni of Maine.

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🚂CPOM PhD Researcher, Marlena, reduced her carbon footprint by travelling to Austria for fieldwork by train! Same science. Smaller footprint 👣

UK Government sets goal for net zero Antarctic scientific operations by 2040 🧊 Decarbonising research stations by 2030 shows how we can advance vital climate science whilst minimising environmental impact in one of Earth's most sensitive regions. Read more: cpom.org.uk/uk-strategy-...

🚀Here is the current list of @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Lancaster University, @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Reading University and @bas.ac.uk Net Zero Polar Science DTP projects 👇 📅Deadline: 7 Jan 2026 nzps-dtp.ac.uk/nzps-project...

🚀Here is the current list of @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Lancaster University, @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Reading University and @bas.ac.uk Net Zero Polar Science DTP projects 👇 📅Deadline: 7 Jan 2026 nzps-dtp.ac.uk/nzps-project...

🛰️In our latest Q&A, CPOM Professor @alibanwell.bsky.social discusses why she was honoured to be featured in a STEM colouring book, and why representation matters so much in science careers 👇 cpom.org.uk/when-does-a-...

🗞️ Article in @uk.theconversation.com Dr Inès Otosaka (@northumbriauni.bsky.social), who leads on the @esa.int Cryotipping Project, discusses 3 ice sheet instabilities scientists are worried about 👇 🔗https://theconversation.com/three-things-that-might-trigger-massive-ice-sheet-collapse-267275

I'm advertising x2 PhDs through this scheme 🛰️ ❄️ 🇦🇶 🇬🇱 "The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling" "Thawing Greenland, Powering Tomorrow: Dynamic ice sheet hydrology for Sustainable Energy"

Led by Dr Emily Glen, our new @egu.eu preprint is now online in Cryosphere Discussions: "A nine-year record of slush on the Greenland Ice Sheet" egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... #Greenland 🇬🇱❄️🧪 @cpom-uk.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu @lancasteruni.bsky.social

📢 PhDs in Net Zero Polar Science - starting Oct 2026 🛰️Browse projects ✉️Contact lead supervisor 📅Deadline: 7 Jan Funding information available for each project on FindAPhD ❔Questions: [email protected] 👉Full information: nzps-dtp.ac.uk

Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK: "The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling" More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️

Very excited to be part of this dream team of supervisors 🇦🇶 Interested in ice shelves? Come join us at @cpom-uk.bsky.social, the North East 🇬🇧 is a pretty great place to be!

Congratulations Dr Swiggs!

🌎Today is POP25, a live event for schools organised by the UK Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) at STEM Learning UK. CPOM scientists are taking part, sharing how protecting the Earth's ice means protecting our planet. Here's a short video reminder why protecting the poles is so important 👇

🎓 Two PhD positions open in #PolarScience & #ClimateScience 1️⃣ AI-Driven Landslide Forecasting 2️⃣ Antarctic Climate Through Time 📅 Both Deadline on 17 Dec 2025 🔗 cpom.org.uk/phds More details 👇 #PhDPosition #EarthObservation

🚀Exciting PhD position available at @ucl.ac.uk Title: Simulating polarisation of EM radiation in snow and ice for climate change observations via advanced remote sensing of the cryosphere. 🔗Find out more: cpom.org.uk/phds/

Excited to be featured in this new #STEM Super Stars colouring book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2YSJ9XW ❄️ 🧪 @cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social

🎓 Two PhD positions open in #PolarScience & #ClimateScience 1️⃣ AI-Driven Landslide Forecasting 2️⃣ Antarctic Climate Through Time 📅 Both Deadline on 17 Dec 2025 🔗 cpom.org.uk/phds More details 👇 #PhDPosition #EarthObservation

CPOM Researcher Diego Moral Pombo (Lancaster University) worked with artist James Hooton, to project an artistic light installation about ice sheet dynamics onto Lancaster Castle for the Light Up Lancaster Festival 🎆 Watch the full case study 👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZwQevi2fg

We had a fantastic day yesterday @newcastleuni.bsky.social Research & Innovation Showcase, supported by CyberNorth and Space North East England. Networking, posters, panels, and expert talks including one from @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) on Net Zero Polar Science 👇

Exciting PhD Opportunity: Antarctic Ice Loss in High Definition: Analysing novel high-resolution satellite data streams for quantifying 21st century change. Interested in combining computing innovation with climate impact? 🔗 For full details and to apply: www.exageo.org/phd-student-...

🆕UK scientists, including CPOM’s Noel Gourmelen, author UNESCO UK report on accelerating glacier loss and its impacts. 🧊 Since 2000, glaciers have lost 6,542 billion tonnes of ice – and melting has been 36% faster in the past decade (The GLAMBIE Team, 2025). 🔗 unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...

🌌Report released on UK Engagement with Space 🌌 🛰️EO capabilities make monitoring the polar regions possible, and this capability is vital in understanding the impact of changes in the Earth's ice on the UK, now and in the future. Links to the report below👇

🚁 At the Lit & Phil last week, CPOM's @andyshepherd.bsky.social & @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social showed how drones are transforming fieldwork in polar regions, sharing these highlights from a CPOM PhD research trip to Iceland last year ❄️ #PolarScience #ClimateResearch #Dronetech

🛰️We loved bringing this polar science made possible by data from the @esa.int CryoSat-2 mission to life for children and their families at the @scienceatlife.bsky.social 👇

We can’t wait to see updates from Ali in Antarctica! 🇦🇶

Earth is losing more than a trillion tonnes of ice each year – enough to create an ice cube more than 10km high 🧊 But how do we make data collected by satellites from hundreds of miles above Earth feel real for people on the ground? 1/4 #ClimateAction #PolarScience #ScienceCommunication

As we prepare for the Arctic Circle #Assembly2025 we're highlighting NOC's Arctic work. 🌡️ The Arctic may be ice-free in summer by 2050, with global impacts. 🌍 Projects like CANARI focus on how this affects extreme weather and the UK. 🇬🇧🌦️ More on our Arctic projects here: noc.ac.uk/science/arct...

🗓️Save the date: Thursday 30th October | 6pm Join us at the @litandphil.bsky.social for... 🐧'Sustainable Polar Science for a Changing Climate' a free lecture with @andyshepherd.bsky.social and @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social. www.litandphil.org.uk/event/sustai...

On Saturday we brought polar science to @scienceatlife.bsky.social for 100+ children using a giant ice cube tent and a range of fun activities! Watch our video and read more about our outreach activities in this article. cpom.org.uk/spotlight-on... #PolarScience #STEM #ClimateScience

🛰️We are at the Life Science Centre in Newcastle today sharing our polar and space science through poems, puzzles and our giant ice cube. If you’re in the city today do pop in and see us! You might also meet Tux our resident 🐧 👇

Led by Chris Bézu, with co-authors @bradlipovsky.bsky.social, Daniel Shapero & myself, our @igsoc.bsky.social pre-print presents a new open-source model that couples ice-shelf flow, flexure & fracture 🧊 🧪 @cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social #glaciology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🆕New research released today 🆕 Scientists (led by @universityofleeds.bsky.social and including CPOM researchers) reveal previously undetected networks of subglacial lakes deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet using @esa.int CryoSat-2 data 👇 www.esa.int/Applications...

Great to see CPOM PhD Researcher @icewicks.bsky.social at the @igsoc.bsky.social British Branch meeting this week, displaying her poster on modelling the impact of surface melt on Amery Ice Shelf 👇 Image credit: @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social

44 science talks, bakeoffs, painting, archery, drone radar training, fell running, and a quiz. It can only be the @cpom-uk.bsky.social annual meeting at the magnificent YHA Castleton ! Thanks to all CPOM friends and family for making it such a fun event. Looking forwards to next year already 😊

This year’s CPOM Annual Meeting featured 42 talks spanning subglacial hydrology, sea ice dynamics, satellite altimetry, ice mass balance, deep learning, Earth system modelling and much more... Thank you to all the speakers for sharing their science with us this year 👏

CPOM Director Professor Andrew Shepherd @andyshepherd.bsky.social (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) comments in this article from the Guardian discussing a recent review on polar geoengineering 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

CPOM Director for Knowledge Exchange Sammie Buzzard @northumbriauni.bsky.social (@treacherousbuzz.bsky.social) comments in this article from the New Scientist on research published today on the risks and realities of polar geoengineering 👇 www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

🗓️Save the date: Thursday 30th October | 6pm Join us at the @litandphil.bsky.social for... 🐧'Sustainable Polar Science for a Changing Climate' a free lecture with @andyshepherd.bsky.social and @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social. www.litandphil.org.uk/event/sustai...