This plot shows the Antarctic sea ice extent, the Arctic sea ice extent, and the total sea ice extent plotted against time. Like in previous post I chose 2012 only because it is the most recent complete year in this data set. Take a look at the minimum, the maximum and the range of the […]
A recent interaction with a scientist left me both bemused, and if I am honest a little bruised. He described twitter as “that rather infantile social network system.” Co-incidently Peter Gibbs, an ex-Antarctican, BBC broadcaster and weather forecaster asked me about media work as a scientist – but given my recent interactions I flunked the […]
Mark Brandon • February 21, 2013 It’s a little odd to me when people refer to the polar regions as being something to do with the “sounds of silence”. I have never thought of peace and quiet when I am on sea ice. You see the sea ice is always moving, (except when it is […]
The Weddell Sea polynya is an area of open water that sometimes appears in the Weddell Sea over a relatively shallow region called Maud Rise. The Antarctic sea ice concentration 9 September 2017. The location of the polynya is marked and the original data come from the DMSP SMMI data set at the NSIDC. In […]
icey_mark • December 13, 2012 I was lucky enough on Tuesday night to get to go to a preview Screening of James Balog’s film Chasing Ice at the wonderful Curzon Soho cinema After it ended I was on the stage with the incredible polar photographer Nick Cobbing, the wonderful polar experienced and influenced artist Michèle […]
Mark Brandon • February 25, 2015 Last week I enjoyed an Inaugural lecture by Professor Martin Siegert of Imperial College. Inaugural Lectures are a big deal: Imperial’s Inaugural Lecture series provides a platform to showcase and celebrate the College’s new professors. The inaugural lecture provides official recognition and celebration of the academic’s promotion to professor. […]
I was interested in how long the polynya I blogged about yesterday had existed. I made a gif of the previous months sea ice data. The sea ice extent in Pine Island Bay 11 September to 10 October 2016. Data from DMSP SSMI. The development of the polynya can be seen in the growth of the […]
I am working on a polar oceanographic problem at the moment, but the beauty of physics is the principles are universal. That means you can end up reading widely. I came across a very interesting paper (to me): 2009 paper in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science Through the joys of open access a PDF of […]
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RRS Discovery en-route to disposal after a 50 year career in marince science, Photo taken by Andrew Yool. NOC. Life at sea is hard to compare with the home quotidian because colleagues, work, dinner, pub, TV, laundry, bed, labs, computers are continually present within the same hundred feet and few decks of space. It can […]
icey_mark • December 13, 2012 I was lucky enough on Tuesday night to get to go to a preview Screening of James Balog’s film Chasing Ice at the wonderful Curzon Soho cinema After it ended I was on the stage with the incredible polar photographer Nick Cobbing, the wonderful polar experienced and influenced artist Michèle […]
Mark Brandon • September 17, 2014 British Pathé News was a British institution that produced news reels and documentaries from 1910 to 1970. Their website is full of news clips of polar interest such as Shackleton’s death in 1922. But here is something wonderful and obscure. Gambling with the Gulf Stream made in 1936! © […]
Everyone likes a wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), but to see them swoop around icebergs is a special experience. At South Georgia you can watch this sort of thing for hours. A wandering albatross in front of Icebergs off the coast of South Georgia. You can download the full resolution image at my flickr page. But […]
Mark Brandon • September 30, 2014 This is a storified version of Gavin Schmidt’s talk on composition & CH4 feedbacks from Arctic sea ice loss with background information. It was formed from the twitter stream #RSarctic14 from a Royal Society discussion meeting I co-organised https://storify.com/icey_mark/dr-gavin-schmidt-speaking-a-the-royal-society-23-s Posted in Science, Storify, twitter. Tags: Arctic, Gavin Schmidt, Methane, […]