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Lead tractor on the traverse on Thwaites Glacier. Photo credit Ole Zeising

New insights into the bed beneath remote Antarctic glacier

Scientists have discovered a landscape of rocky hills and smooth plains beneath the remote Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Read More

The camp at the TIME 2 research site. Photo credit: Marianne Karplus
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Early Career Scientists hone their communications skills

Since its start in 2018, the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) has supported graduate students and postdoctoral researchers studying ice-ocean interactions in West Antarctica across the United Kingdom and United States. Read More

Photo of Ran navigating in the Antarctic. Credit Adam Ulfsbo, University of Gothenburg

Final mission for the underwater robot ‘Ran’ under Thwaites Glacier

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. Read More

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Antarctica Week Festival 2023

Antarctica Live Lessons, a new and exciting educational platform, launches as the feature of the annual ITGC Antarctica Week Festival . Read More

Thwaites Glacier and the Texas coast

Announcing coastal sea level rise meeting in Houston, TX, April 2024

Hosted at the University of Houston, with support from the University of Texas at Austin, University of Houston, and the Science Coordination Office of ITGC, join colleagues at the From Ice Sheets to the Coast: Sea-Level Rise Impacts meeting April 10-12, 2024. Read More

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Yixi Zheng receives IACS Early Career Scientist Award

Congratulations to Yixi Zheng, recipient of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) Early Career Scientist Prize! Yixi, from the University of East Anglia, UK, and a researcher with ITGC's TARSAN project, received the award for her paper: 

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