This is a MODIS image from 2004, but it’s too good not to post here. Iceberg A38 at South Georgia 12 April 2004 I’m giving a talk tonight for the South Georgia Association called Giant Icebergs and South Georgia, so I’m wandering through a lot of these images at the moment. South Georgia is a small […]
I love looking at satellite images of the Antarctic and picking out the icebergs. In the last few years we have had great stories about the giant icebergs A68 in 2020, A76 in 2022 and most recently A23a currently in the Southern Scotia Sea. At the moment there are two of very large icebergs at […]
I was asked recently for some black and white pictures of me for an event. Here they are. Mark Brandon, Antarctica Mark Brandon in the Arctic in front of a small iceberg Mark Brandon in Iceland
This is the Official Citation for the Times Higher Education Most Innovative Teacher of the year Receiving the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Award. From L-R David Walliams, Me, Professor David Gibson, and Professor Craig Mahoney Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Mark Brandon, The Open University Mark Brandon has worked alongside Sir David […]
The polynya over Maud Rise was visible in a beautiful clear MODIS image on 25 September. It is currently ~40,000 km2 of open water in the middle of the Antarctic winter sea ice. This will be some impressive heat loss. MODIS image of the polyna over Maud rise on 25 Sept 2017. The black is […]
Being interested in the Weddell Polynya I plotted some time series data from 1 September 2017 to 23 November 2017. On the left-hand panel, you can see the see the sea ice concentration, on the right-hand panel, the anomaly of the concentration each day compared with a mean from 1989-93. The Weddell Polynya is the […]
The Prince Gustav Channel was covered by an ice shelf which collapsed in the 1990’s, and for many years it was possible to sail a ship around James Ross Island. Recently it has been covered with sea ice frozen to the land – we call this fast ice, and it’s usually only a few metres […]
Mark Brandon • October 15, 2024 I love looking at satellite images of the Antarctic and picking out the icebergs. In the last few years we have had great stories about the giant icebergs A68 in 2020, A76 in 2022 and most recently A23a currently in the Southern Scotia Sea. At the moment there are […]
Mark Brandon • November 24, 2017 Being interested in the Weddell Polynya I plotted some time series data from 1 September 2017 to 23 November 2017. On the left-hand panel, you can see the see the sea ice concentration, on the right-hand panel, the anomaly of the concentration each day compared with a mean from […]
Greenland’s ice sheet suffered major melting in July 2019, dumping billions of tons of meltwater into the Atlantic Ocena. Jennifer Latuperisa-Andresen/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Mark Brandon, The Open University The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN body responsible for communicating the science of climate breakdown – has released its long-awaited Special Report on […]
Mark Brandon • January 28, 2015 The South West Atlantic is a very productive part of the global ocean. This MODIS image from the Terra satellite shows the east coast of Argentina and the Falkland Islands. The ocean between is filled with swirls of lighter colour which are a plankton bloom along the continental shelf […]
I keep seeing a map of Antarctica with an overlaid outline of the United States. I thought it would be helpful to have a picture of the continent compared with the size of Europe. Antarctica compared with the size of Europe This is a picture from a book I wrote half of and edited a […]
Mark Brandon • October 13, 2016 My previous posts on Amundsen Sea Polynya and their development showed ~37,600 km2 of open water in front of the ice shelves. It is very early spring in Antarctica at this time of the year and it’s still cold. That means sea ice can still grow. This is the […]
Mark Brandon • November 19, 2013 I came across this brilliant Deep Sea News blog post about oil on troubled waters. It talks at length about how a surface film of oil damps out higher frequency surface waves and only the low frequency waves can propagate. The net effect is the sea feels calmer as […]