Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialHuw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 21/03/2025What happens when giant #icebergs start to fall apart! #biopole2 #antarctica #southgeorgia #ice #A23a @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social 26713
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialDomino Jones @dominoajones.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Very artsy pictures for the Nottingham Science Festival team! Everyone who worked on the event, from the organisers to the library staff, were a dream to work with. And thanks to our volunteers! @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social festivals 🤩🤩 022
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialAustralian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 01/04/2025👀 A fascinating insight to how changes in #Antarctic sea ice have effects elsewhere in the world: 🕳️ Lack of usual sea ice in Ross Sea ➕ 🌪️ hurricane-strength winds 🟰 🌊 strong, long-period swell on the southern NSW coast more than 4000km away! ▶️ www.swellnet.com/news/swellne...swellnet.comMelting Sea Ice Brings Rare Groundswell | Swellnet Analysis | Swellnet 45028
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialPolar Bears International @polarbearsinternational.org · 02/04/2025“The first step in protecting the cubs starts with giving female polar bears & their offspring the best chance to be able to make it through this crucial development period & move on to the sea ice to begin hunting.” — Dr. Louise Archer in convo with @mongabay.bsky.social on our maternal den studynews.mongabay.comRare polar bear cub footage offers crucial conservation insightsTo a layperson, it’s footage of adorable polar bear cubs with their moms against the backdrop of endless Arctic snow. For researchers who study the animals, however, it’s a rare and incredibly importa... 1247
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialIrene Quaile @iceblogger.bsky.social · 30/03/2025„But in a world suffering tremendous political upheaval and conflict, it’s hard for polar researchers to get the public’s attention and raise concerns with policymakers to conserve these frigid regions.“ news.mongabay.com/2025/03/pola...news.mongabay.comPolar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet increasingly vulnerable to the cascading effects of global warming. This March, the A... 057
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialBritish Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 07/04/2025For doctors dreaming of an adventure: how about being deployed for a season to Antarctica? We chatted to Dr Nisha Mistry (now on RRS Sir David Attenborough) and Dr Becky Boys (was at Rothera Research Station) about practising medicine in the frozen South. 🎧 ICEWORLD podcast: tinyurl.com/5xw4t3kd 0324
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialScientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @scar-antarctic.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Meet the 2025 INSTANT Fellows! 🇦🇶 Giselle Lujan Marincovich – aerosols 🇦🇶 Camila Marin-Arias – methane release 🇦🇶 Yikai Zhu – ice shelf pinning points 🇦🇶 Alexander Bradley – tipping points Congratulations! scar.org/scar-news/pr... 021
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialEuropean Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 10/04/2025The SciComm 101 #webinar introduced some of the fundamental practices and #tips for delivering oral and poster #presentations at scientific #conferences. If you missed it, check out the recording now published on YouTube! 🔗: egu.eu/35YG6D 0113
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialSouthern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) @soosocean.bsky.social · 10/04/2025SOOSmap.aq not only makes it easy to access data from different sources… …but also from different decades! The Southern Ocean moored time series compiled by @oceaniceeu.bsky.social provides data since 1975! Access temp, salinity & current velocity. #SOOSMap_Month #SOOS_DATAMonday @bas.ac.uk 022
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialOCEAN ICE @oceaniceeu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025🆕 Check out our latest 'Researcher in the Spotlight' feature on Anastasiia Chyhareva, a meteorologist and climatologist at NASC in Ukraine. 🔎Learn more about Anastasiia here ocean-ice.eu/researcher-i... 001
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Check out this fact-packed and fascinating thread of 2024 climate chronically published by Nature last year 010
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Great opportunities for polar educator researchers! 000
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Built some great 'Polar Bridges' @ 6th International Workshop for @polareducators.bsky.social #PEI2025-USA in Boulder #assw2025 #icarpiv @scottpolar.bsky.social @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social @iasc-arctic.bsky.social @scar-antarctic.bsky.social 021
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Spectacular views of #Arctic #Spring pack ice enroute to #PEI2025-USA Boulder, Colorado #ASSW2025 020
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialKatharina Hochmuth @hochmuth.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Happy International Glacier/ Poetry Day! For all ❄️🌊🧊🧪🇦🇶 friends, I highly recommend this wonderful poem by my amazing fellow @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social expeditioner @christinaocean.bsky.social antarctic.org.au/world-day-fo... #DenmanMarineVoyage #Antarcticsantarctic.org.auWorld Day for Glaciers - a poem - ACEASWorld Day for Glaciers – a poem A little poem written by Christina Schmidt to celebrate today’s World Day for Glaciers and World Poetry Day – Friday 21 March, 2025: – I have now seen the Denman Glacie... 02511
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialIrene Quaile @iceblogger.bsky.social · 21/03/2025www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-a...rcinet.caBlog: First UN World Day for Glaciers – A call to climate action in desperate timesAccelerating ice melt from glaciers worldwide means an increased loss of freshwater resources, ever-faster sea level rise and life-threatening floods and landslides. In some regions, ice loss is alrea... 021
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialIrene Quaile @iceblogger.bsky.social · 16/03/2025phys.org/news/2025-03...phys.orgNew map of landscape beneath Antarctica unveiledThe most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). 021
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Lots of over-heating #penguins & melting #ice at #Nottingham Central Library #science day with UKPN\ @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social #polar #outreach #education #Antarctica #Arctic 001
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 22/02/2025All publicity is good publicity?? @bas.ac.uk #polar #antarctica #education #outreach #globalwarming #what-happens-at-the-poles-affects-us-all 000
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Looking forward to hearing all the Antarctic science updates from RSV Nuyina. Bon voyage from PEI! #polareducators #PEI #polar #education #antarctic 010
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Plastics and Polar Oceans is just one of our themes for our workshop for polar educators - Join us in Boulder #ASSW2025 We're developing a section of the new IPY5 Polar Resource Book 021
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 11/02/2025It's not funny because it's true? 010
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 11/02/2025What do you think about this polar parents and guardians? youtu.be/8rnfywUFFSU?...youtu.beBy the TimeYouTube video by Science Moms 020
polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Hey polar educators! Wherever you are hiding, this is a safe, friendly space where you can share your polar education practice. I'm Sophie - the current President of PEI, our cool, international community (people who teach in and about earth's awesome polar regions). You are not alone! 030
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialBritish Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 23/01/2025Here's the science (in brief): 🌀 High-energy electrons spiral in Earth’s magnetic field, aka ‘plasma instability’ ☢️ The spinning electrons emit radiation 🔊 Radiation is amplified by wave-particle interactions with other electrons, creating chorus waves... ... which sound like chirping birds! 🐦 0102
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialBritish Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 23/01/2025👂 Or if you want to hear space’s dawn chorus for yourself, have a listen to his interview on Radio 4 earlier today: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (the segment starts at 2:56:20)bbc.co.ukToday - 23/01/2025 - BBC SoundsNews and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. 172
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialBritish Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 23/01/2025Have you heard there’s birdsong in space? 🐦 Chorus waves are electromagnetic bursts in space that sound like chirping birds (when converted to audio). First observed in the 1960s at Halley Research Station in Antarctica, they’ve recently been detected in an unexpected region of space! 2282
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialAustralian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 24/01/20253️⃣ When it comes to transporting carbon from the surface to deep-ocean storage, it turns out that fast-sinking krill poop is better than the up-and-down migration of krill each day (which also varies across seasons). Sink or swim? 💩 wins. Read more: ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/sink-or-swim... 1186
Reposted by @polareducators.bsky.socialAustralian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 24/01/20251️⃣ Within minutes, Antarctic krill swarm a light, on a seafloor lander at a depth of 387m in Prydz Bay, East #Antarctica. 🔃 The daily vertical migration of krill was monitored with a camera and an upward-looking echosounder. Krill data mostly come from ship echosounders that look down to about 250m. 2307
