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Sampling bedrock beneath the ice sheet, GHC will identify if and when the glacier retreated in the past, how it recovered, and how it is currently responding to environmental conditions.

Investigating sediments deposited in the seas near the glacier, Thwaites Offshore Research (THOR) will reconstruct past changes in environmental conditions and the glacier’s response to these, thereby adding context to our projections of future change.

Measuring ocean circulation and thinning beneath the floating part of the glacier using state of the art technology such as AUVs and automated land-ice stations, TARSAN will investigate how the ocean and atmosphere are affecting the glacier.
Scientists have discovered a landscape of rocky hills and smooth plains beneath the remote Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. A team of researchers used seismic imaging to map the area where the ice sits on the bed, giving new insights into the future of this enormous glacier and how it may respond to environmental change. Results are presented at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting in Vienna this week.
Held October 9, 2023, the ITGC ECR Science Communication Workshop was a half-day meeting geared at bringing together students and postdocs across ITGC to practice effective science communication with the public.
The final field season of the ambitious, international effort to understand Antarctica’s giant Thwaites Glacier is complete. Teams of scientists and support staff with the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) have spent the past couple of months working on the Thwaites Glacier to advance our knowledge of how it interacts with the ocean and climate, and improve the predictions of its future contributions to sea level rise.

Ran, the seven metre-long, bright orange, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and a highly valued component of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), has gone missing in action in West Antarctica. The AUV has contributed key data to ITGC, including the first data from under Thwaites ice shelf1 and high resolution maps that show where Thwaites Glacier was grounded in the past2. Ran disappeared the first weekend of February during an expedition to Thwaites Glacier with the South Korean icebreaker RV/IB Araon.

Emily Neville
Communications and Engagement Manager
Affiliation
BAS: British Antarctic Survey
Project
SCO

Emily works on the UK communications for the Science Coordination Office (SCO) for the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. Alongside the SCO team, she plans and develops news and press releases, produces content for social media and liaises with research teams.

 

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