Defy anywhere to outdo the penguin christmas jumper selection at the @bas.ac.uk christmas lunch 🐧❄️🎄

Evening hand-mend to get some more life out of my favourite jeans! #reuse 👖🪡

The first images coming in from Sentinel 1C! With these first examples over Svalbard offering a glimpse of the boon it will be for sea ice monitoring and process understanding www.esa.int/Applications...

At the start of the emperor penguin chick fledging season five colonies have already been affected by early sea ice breakup. The purple dots below show which ones. Not as bad as the last two years, but worse than average.

This is oceanography the hard way. Before any instruments or samplers are deployed, we hot water drill an access hole through several hundred metres of ice shelf. Don't dilly-dally though, freezing closes the hole in a day or two.

Hi Bluesky! We have a paper out today in The Cryosphere: doi.org/10.5194/tc-1... about Antarctic sea ice trends in observations and climate models (+huge thanks to co-authors, not on BlueSky) (thread: 1/6)