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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️

@emmapearce.bsky.social
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Geophysicist and Glaciologist at British Antarctic Survey Dr of Ice 👩🏼‍💻 Working in and studying Antarctica. ❄️

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A fun opportunity to chat with Nadia about some of our whirlwind deployments to Antarctica, and how @bas.ac.uk make sure you're always warm! open.spotify.com/episode/2OXH...
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S5 Ep7: What to wear in Antarctica
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
What a pleasure to be invited to give a talk for @ucl.ac.uk Women in Earth Science seminar series! If you're around next week, come say hi! www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
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How do ice shelves break? Assessing the mechanisms behind ice shelf rifting in Antarctica
The next UCL WiES seminar will be by Emma Pearce, an Ice Fracture Geophysicist from the British Antarctic Survey. Wednesday 29th October in KLB 127 1-2pm, followed by tea and coffee.
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Have a read of our latest @egu-cr.bsky.social Blog from @levantielidze.bsky.social ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...
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Heard Island Glaciers Are Shrinking Faster Than Ever! Here’s what you need to know.
In this blog post Dr Levan Tielidze from Monash University and Securing Antarctica’s Environmental F uture shares insights from a new glacier assessment of Heard Island . Although rarely visited and l...
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We were lucky enough to have @newscientist.com spend a few days with us to make this wonderful short film! I feel so lucky to be able to tell the story of the science I get to do at @bas.ac.uk in this way! www.newscientist.com/video/249090...
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Scientists crush ice cores to predict Antarctica's next big ice crack
In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of the cracks are huge as ice shelves hold back huge volumes of landlocked wate...
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🏔️ Vanishing giants in the Caucasus... What do ancient glacial footprints tell us about climate change in one of the world’s most dynamic mountain regions? 👇 Read the latest @egu-cr.bsky.social blog: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...
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Tracking the Footprints of a Vanishing Glaciers in the Greater Caucasus
In this week’s blog, Levan Tielidze tells us about his recent glacier study from the Greater Caucasus. By combining geomorphology, remote sensing, and historical cartography, the team reconstructed ne...
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Want to find out more about the amazing female director behind National Geographic's hit documentary 'ENDURANCE' - have a look at our latest blog? @egu.eu @egu-cr.bsky.social blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...
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Women Of Cryo VIII: Natalie Hewit – Documenting Antarctica’s Frozen Voices
Antarctica is a unique place where history, adventure, and science collide. It’s a continent that has fascinated explorers for centuries, but much of its story has been told through the lens of men wh...
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
An amazing turn out for a beautifully sunny women and non binary @egu-cr.bsky.social lunch. What a wonderful community we have @egu.eu
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A super useful blog post for any cryosphere folk at @egu.eu ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...
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EGU 25 – we’ve got you covered
Are you attending this year’s EGU General Assembly virtual or in person? No matter the way you attend or if it’s your first time or you are coming to Vienna for the GA for years, today we share with y...
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
With @egu.eu next week, come and find out all about our Brunt Ice core data analysis! (Tuesday morning, 8.30am, Pico spot 5)
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
An easter treat! A new @egu-cr.bsky.social blog post is up by Larissa van der Lann! Grab your easter egg, and have a read! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...
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Celebrating at UNESCO: the first-ever global day for glaciers
2025 marks an important year for glaciers, as it’s the official Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, an initiative by UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Part of the initiative is also ...
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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 12/03/2025
What about a fascinating and unusual PhD hat 🎓 ? In this blog, Dr. Torben Windirsch gives us a tour of his unique PhD hat, which includes many symbols of his Arctic fieldwork discoveries. 👉 Read more here from the Cryospheric Sciences division's blog: egu.eu/26OGT1
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A wonderful article written by Amy Ringrose @bas.ac.uk, explaining what ice core scientists actually do! Have a read to see what I'll be up to with the ice from the Brunt. www.linkedin.com/pulse/core-m... media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2...
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The @egu-cr.bsky.social Blog needs you! Have you recently published a paper? 📝 Have a story about fieldwork? ⛺ Made something artistic related to cryosphere? ❄️ Come and write a blog for us! ✏️ Zero prior experience needed! Drop a DM if you're interested! (pic of E.T. in a tent for attention)
a yellow pyramid tent with e.t. the extra terrestrial in it
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Liz Bagshaw Glaciology @lizbagshaw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hole drilled into Greenland's heart reveals ice ready to slide into the sea | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Hole drilled into Greenland's heart reveals ice ready to slide into the sea
Unique drilling project has ominous implications for sea-level rise
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
And that's the season over. Halley has such a special place in my heart. It's so rare a glaciologist gets to be part of station life the way you do at Halley. A proper little family for three months. ❄️ Nowhere else quite like it! @bas.ac.uk
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
No better way to end the season than getting to play around in a dozer for the morning pushing snow! 🚜
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Halley VI science team photo ❄️ A wonderful collection of scientists and engineers keeping all the science on the Brunt Ice Shelf running over the summer and winter
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A little bit of Sunday ice climbing in Antarctica in the sunniest wind scoop! 🧗🏼‍♀️
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A beautiful blue sky day digging a big hole, visited by a Skua. Some last minute equipment servicing before the season ends
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
5 weeks later; 4 bore holes 1.5 tonnes of ice cores 64 seismometers 2 km of fibre optic 200 km of radar 11 GPS sites And lots of games of bridge... It's time to go home 😴
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Picking up the seismometers after they've been deployed for 5 weeks, and this one had some little footprints from a curious Skua! I wonder if I'll see any pecking in the data 🐦
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Every evening we sit and wait for a satellite call from Rothera to check our field team of four is all ok. This evening's call was accompanied by a slowly lowering sun on the horizon. The summer season slowly drawing to a close 🌅
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Bang, bop, boop, bash, snow goes mush, do it again. The glamour of geophysics 🔨
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A quick visit from Ollie and his twin otter and that's all our ice cores picked up and on their way to Halley!! Now just to let the seismometers do their thing for a few more days, and then home time!!
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Four holes and four weeks later, and we are done drilling 😴
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Warm, wet and windy! ft. My knitted hood I made a few seasons ago! 🧶
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Bit of a blowy one today, so I think we'll stay inside 🌬️
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
A little visit today from a big red bird to take some of our ice cores away to Rothera!
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Today we recovered a mega 2.4 m long core! Annoyingly we can't take it home this long as our ice core boxes are only 90 cm. So she had to get cut up 🪚!
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Melt layers in the form from a warm summer in 2019 ☀️
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
All the team at the new site, with fresh firny core in hands. 8 m down... 100 m more!
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Ice from the bottom of our first hole 130 m down! Now to pack up the tent and move to our next site and do it all over again.
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
When you go to measure an ice core, but it's actually a tiny, lost, Antarctic pigeon. Got to keep yourself busy whilst the winch goes up and down🧶🐦
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Another beautiful blue sky day ☀️❄️
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Who'd have thought it, a white Christmas??? Merry Christmas to all. I hope your days are also filled with dehy food and biscuits browns 🌲❄️☃️
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Ice from 100 m down! A Christmas miracle! ☃️❄️
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Bubbles from 80 m down. I wonder what was going on in the world when this ice formed on the continent thousands of years ago.
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
It wouldn't be a real science project if you didn't spend lots of time fixing equipment that seems to all have a death wish! A successful day none the less, more seismometers listening and more ice cores recovered!
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
First cores recovered! 30 m down in day one! Happy drill team!
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Deploying seismometers out at Halloween Crack to try find out what the ice shelf is saying!
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
At least the delays mean I've had time to write my postcards! Let's see who makes it back to the UK first.. Antarctic post isn't the quickest!
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
RIFT-TIP traverse all packed and ready to head to Halloween crack... But then the fog came and said not today. Stand by to stand by.
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A season photo before folks head off for the field and other destinations. 35 wonderful humans ❤️
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A beautiful evening for a chilly run ❄️ 24 hour daylight never gets old, definitely not missing the dark winter nights at home 🌑
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Let's go fly a kite 🪁
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Learning how to get in and out of a crevasse, Halley style @bas.ac.uk
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Join in the most important vote in Antarctica right now. What is YOUR favourite bean?
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The most magical sky over Halley as the cloud passes, finishing off a day of charging and testing equipment ready for our RIFTTIP project.
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 25/11/2024
Halley Research Station is open! Kicking the Antarctic summer science season off in style, the occasion was marked by raising the flag - traditionally done by the youngest team member (this year, Fin did the honours). It looks like a glorious sunny day on the vast Brunt Ice Shelf ☀️ 📸 Iain Gordon
35 people in orange hi-vis line up against the flat snow-topped ice sheet. A big red logistics truck with caterpillar tracks is behind them.Fin, a young person in a blue down jacket and thick gloves, raises the UK flag on a pole with the station leader. They are on a grating platform on the top of one of the raised pods of the research station.
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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
An Antarctic screening of Endurance @disneyplustr.bsky.social. Do we think we are the people closest to the wreck watching the documentary?
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