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A new paper about the Antarctic Ice Sheet in a special issue of Science reviews critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of how Antarctica responds to variations in global climate. Led by Scripps Oceanography glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker, with ESR’s … Read More
ESR research scientist Michael Town is off to Troll Station with the Norwegian Polar Institute to install equipment for the Integrated Cloud Observatory (ICO) which is part of the part of the Troll Observing Network (TONe). Find out more about this … Read More
The Arctic Data Center’s December blog post features ESR’s Susan Howard and her collaborative work with Michael Hart-Davis, Laurence Padman, and others studying Arctic Tides. Check out the interview with Susan to find out more about her career and work, and … Read More
AGU’s 2024 annual fall meeting is wrapped up last week in Washington D.C.! With over 27,000 attendees, the annual fall meeting is the largest gathering of earth and space scientists from around the world. This year, Laurie Padman was honored … Read More
ESR is proud to announce that Laurie Padman, ESR’s President, has been elected as an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow, joining a distinguished group of 54 individuals in the 2024 Class of Fellows! AGU, the world’s largest Earth and space … Read More
A new paper led by Bryony Freer, a PhD student at the University of Leeds, uses laser altimetry from NASA’s ICESat-2 to show that the grounding line of Antarctic ice shelves can move up to 10 miles in a few … Read More
ESR is happy to announce the release of ArcTiCA, a new Arctic Tidal Constituent Atlas. Susan Howard and Laurie Padman, from Earth and Space Research, were happy to be part of this international collaboration, led by Michael Hart-Davis. ArcTiCA provides … Read More
ESR’s Laurie Padman was a co-author on a recently published paper that describes how tidal currents in the Arctic Ocean create large high-frequency internal waves that cause ocean mixing. The paper was motivated by data he and colleagues collected … Read More
As part of NASA’s SASSIE (Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge) experiment, the R/V Woldstad will depart for the Beaufort Gyre from Nome, AK on Sept. 5th. ESR scientist Julian Schanze will be on board! Take a look … Read More
The Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE) team has just begun a comprehensive, three-month data collection mission to the Arctic Ocean. A fleet of Wave Gliders was just deployed in the Beaufort Sea. The goal of this … Read More