Mark Brandon • June 14, 2014 Mangé par le chat de l’équipage de la Terror The cod icefish re-discovered and published in 1904 by Louis Dollo. The original caption says “Mangé par le chat de l’équipage de la Terror” or “Eaten by the Terror’s cat”! The famous polar ships HMS Erebus and HMS terror had […]
There is a lot happening at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet as summer progresses, and the MODIS sensor on the TERRA and AQUA satellites is a wonderful way to observe it. I noticed the other day (8 July 2015) this beautiful image of fast ice breaking out of a Fjord on the east […]
Mark Brandon • March 1, 2013 As a marine scientist I have always had an obsession with the sea and what it is doing. You can see that by looking at the photos section of this site, or my flickr stream. A couple of weeks ago Dr Ian Brooks (Leeds) tweeted to a colleague, a […]
Mark Brandon • March 7, 2017 The polynya I saw forming in early February is still clear, and very large in the Southern Weddell Sea. At the moment it is more than than 80,000 km2, although there is clearly a lot of young sea ice covering a large part of the polynya. The Weddell Sea 5 […]
Mark Brandon • January 19, 2016 This just on twitter from the UK Ministry of Defence about the recent magnificent voyage of HMS Protector. The Tweet posted by MOD on 18th Jan 2016 On the web page in the link it says By visiting this region Protector achieved a latitude of 77 Degrees 56 Minutes […]
It is October and it is the Arctic sea ice growing season. The MODIS imagery yesterday shows this beautiful image of sea ice on the North East Greenland coast. North East Greenland in a MODIS image 5 October 2016 from the TERRA satellite The image below shows roughly where we are looking: …continue reading It’s a little odd to […]
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. […]
Mark Brandon • June 10, 2014 — UPDATED 11 June 2014 — This post got the dreaded TL; DR on Reddit – but at least “they” acknowledged it was useful. Since it takes someone else to pick out the value in your work I offer this tweet from Jason Major. – ORIGINAL POST A significant […]
Mark Brandon • January 28, 2014 I don’t usually work on this sort of thing, but very recently I have been writing about hazards caused by the cryosphere. A major hazard is of course the avalanche – whether ice, snow, or a mixture. This video was posted on You tube (with the tag line “Courtesy […]
[This is a post bringing together things I have done elsewhere whilst learning how to use this platform.] I am a huge fan of the Natural Environment Research Council, and used to work for the British Antarctic Survey. It is a fact that in the UK at the moment the community has some very tough […]
Mark Brandon • February 13, 2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made more than a third of a million images both public domain and searchable online. This is one of my current favourites: An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay by William Bradford and painted in 1871. An Arctic Summer: Boring […]
Mark Brandon • June 10, 2014 — UPDATED 11 June 2014 — This post got the dreaded TL; DR on Reddit – but at least “they” acknowledged it was useful. Since it takes someone else to pick out the value in your work I offer this tweet from Jason Major. – ORIGINAL POST A significant […]
Mark Brandon • March 26, 2015 I was enjoying my polar books the other night and came across a quote attributed to everyone’s favourite humanitarian polar explorer and scientist, Fridtjof Nansen. Fridtjof Nansen, 1915, from the George Grantham Bain Collection If I were not a Norwegian, I would be an Englishman rather than belong to […]
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 […]