An amazing article on another polar drilling expedition a bit similar to #SWAIS2C https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/greenland-ice-sheet-drilling-bedrock-sea-rise/ #ClimateScience #HowMuchHowFast #Antarctica

The new report on #Antarctic #ExtremeEvents is clearly articulated in this Channel 4 report - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhXiBsBfiu4

#ClimateCrisis #SWAIS2C #howmuchhowfast #IceMelt

The decline in #Antarctic #seaice this year is a “five-sigma event,” basically referring to how many standard deviations it is beyond the mean. 5-sigma makes it extremely outside the norm. https://www.fastcompany.com/90928985/five-sigma-event-sea-ice-antartica-alarming-scientists

#ClimateCrisis #HowMuchHowFast #SWAIS2C

Antarctic ice drives crucial deep-ocean currents that help regulate Earth’s climate. But the system is slowing down. Check out why this is happening and what it means in @VeronikaMeduna's article... #Antarctica #ClimateCrisis #SWAIS2C https://eos.org/articles/meltwater-from-antarctic-glaciers-is-slowing-deep-ocean-currents

"If nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years." Vast regions of Antarctic coast are exposed that we have never experienced as bare before.
https://www.salon.com/2023/07/25/antarcticas-rapidly-melting-ice-is-in-unprecedented-territory/

#Antarctica #SWAIS2C #ClimateCrisis #HowMuchHowFast

Our first newsletter is out now! Check out:
https://mailchi.mp/1c988077bf97/welcome-to-swais2cs-newsletter?e=3853df8561

#antarctica #swais2c #howmuchhowfast #climatecrisis

Broken temperature records during an #elnino event are a symptom of underlying global warming. It’s this long-term warming which will ultimately trigger #climate tipping points, such as the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet #SWAIS2C #HowMuchHowFast
https://theconversation.com/what-el-nino-means-for-the-worlds-perilous-climate-tipping-points-209083

Almost the entire #WestAntarcticIceSheet sits on rock in deep depressions below #sealevel. Its vulnerable to an irreversible process where ongoing encroachment of warm ocean waters means #icemelt becomes self-sustaining, accelerating until it's gone.
https://theconversation.com/antarctic-tipping-points-the-irreversible-changes-to-come-if-we-fail-to-keep-warming-below-2-207410

#SWAIS2C #climatechange #HowMuchHowFast, #ClimateCrisis

Seeing life swimming 700m below an #Antarctic #icesheet around 500km from the open, sunlit ocean sent Huw Horgan into "just complete shock". Huw is one of the #SWAIS2C science leads and you can read about his find in a great long article #ClimateScience https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cavern-west-antarctic-glacier-life

Although we're concentrating on #WestAntarctica, the ice sheet in #QueenMaudLand in East Antarctica is not stable. Large amounts of ice have #melted in the past, most recently 5,000 years ago. #SWAIS2C https://partner.sciencenorway.no/antarctica-climate-environment/the-ice-in-antarctica-has-melted-before/2180947

Researchers have dropped a #submersible vehicle down a hole in #Antarctic ice to get their closest-ever look at the underside of #Thwaites Glacier. Our #SWAIS2C project will provide even more data to help with uncertainty around how #icesheets may affect #sealevel rise https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00459-6

Two of the members of the wider #SWAIS2C team feature in this article https://newsroom.niu.edu/in-search-of-future-climate-clues-beneath-antarctic-ice/ Justin Dodd and Finlay McElmeel compare retrieving #Antarctic #sediment #cores to time travel.

This is how we see #Antarctica - at the centre of it all. #SWAIS2C is a couple of the proposed dots on the #WestAntarcticIceSheet as we will be #ScientificDrilling in two locations to understand whether the #icesheet melted in temperatures similar to 2 degrees of warming. Thanks to #IODP for the map.

About 125,000 years ago, Turquet's #Octopus populations on opposite sides of the West #Antarctic Ice Sheet mixed genetically. The only way for this to happen involves a seaway across the continent caused by a collapse in the #WAIS. The #SWAIS2C project will check to see if the #icesheet has collapsed previously. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/05/clue-to-rising-sea-levels-lies-in-dna-of-4m-year-old-octopus-scientists-say

Interested in what's going on in #Antarctica at the moment? Featuring the #SWAIS2C #drill! Check out the Antarctica NZ newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/131a97189ded/antarctica-new-zealand-science-update-5872257

A fascinating look at how the #NZDefenceForce helps out with #science in #Antarctica - they recently unloaded a lot of the #SWAIS2C gear for our upcoming mission examining whether the #WestAntarcticIceSheet melted in the distant past and what that means for our warming world #HowMuchHowFast. We're grateful for all the work they do on the frozen continent.
https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/our-history-decades-of-flying-to-the-ice/

I'm thrilled to announce the new #SWAIS2C website!

https://www.swais2c.aq/

Learn all about our project in #Antarctica and what it will do for our understanding of #climate and #HowMuchHowFast

The containers are almost all offloaded from the #OceanGiant at #McMurdo in #Antarctica. Our drill is all nicely packaged up, ready for the team to arrive later this year and get to work on #SWAIS2C. Thanks #NZDF and #AntarcticaNZ for your work in the midst of #COVID precautions.

Some of the #SWAIS2C equipment (including the all-important drill) is being unloaded at #McMurdo in #Antarctica from the Ocean Giant (big blue ship) by #NZDefenceForce. The causeway in the bottom left has just been built. You can watch the action at... https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm

RT @MarloWordyBird@twitter.com

Hey, hey, it's Antarctica Day! 🇦🇶

What is Antarctica Day? I'm glad you asked!

#Antarctica #AntarcticaDay #Antártida​ #SWAIS2C

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