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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
Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, which sank in 1915, is still somewhere at the bottom of the Weddell Sea at a depth of around 3000 m. Frank Worsley, Shackleton’s navigator, recorded the location using a sextant and chronometer. As a new … Read More
Today, ESR celebrates the 30th anniversary of Ice Station Weddell (ISW), a US-Russian ice camp set up from the Russian ship Akademik Fedorov onto a multiyear drifting ice floe near 71.4oS in the western Weddell Sea. ESR’S Laurie Padman was … Read More
ESR recently released 2 new tide models in the Arctic region.: Arc2kmTM and Gr1kmTM. The Arctic 2km tide model (Arc2kmTM) and the Greenland 1km tide model (Gr1kmTM) are barotropic ocean tide models on a 2×2 km and 1×1 km polar … Read More
ESR’s polar research group provides tide models and validation datasets through the Arctic Data Center (ADC), which is the primary data and software repository for the Arctic section of National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs (NSF OPP). We … Read More