Mark Brandon • November 28, 2014 I do like Google streetview and often use it if I am going somewhere new to see where I am supposed to be heading. So it’s really nice to see it at South Georgia in the South Atlantic. The landing page has links to various locations, but I particularly […]
[This is a post bringing together things I have done elsewhere whilst learning how to use this platform.] Back in July 2012 the global news media went very big on a story on the Melting of Greenland. The original BBC Greenland Melting story I got involved in a discussion on twitter about it, with lots […]
Mark Brandon • March 16, 2017 https://storify.com/icey_mark/giving-a-talk-at-the-nerc-science-large-grants-pan Posted in Science, Storify. Tags: grant panel, Natural Environment Research Council, NERC, research on March 16, 2017 by Mark Brandon.
Mark Brandon • November 29, 2016 The sea Ice is too heavy for the RRS James Clark Ross to make Rothera base right now. You may have thought the sea ice on the satellite images didn’t look too bad, but it’s all about how thick the sea ice is, and where the open water is. To […]
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 • 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, […]
Mark Brandon • January 31, 2014 In the previous post I made a plot of Antarctica and compared it to the size of Europe. I made the throwaway point that it was unreasonable to imagine Antarctica as being characterized with one climatic zone. It is not all the “coldest and windiest place” on Earth. I […]
Mark Brandon • October 11, 2016 The Amundsen Sea currently has some very large polynya. In front of the Dotson, Getz and Pine Island ice shelves they are clear in the satellite data. The sea ice extent along the Antarctic Peninsula 9 October 2016. Data from DMSP SSMI. A polynya is an area of open water in the […]
Mark Brandon • January 2, 2013 Professor Seymour Laxon in Hobart Tasmania I heard today that the UCL Prof Seymour Laxon has died in an accident over the new year. I don’t know the details and to be honest, to me, the “how” is not really that important (*). Only the loss. …continue reading → […]
Mark Brandon • December 8, 2016 I was asked “what is an easy way to get a satellite image into Google Earth?”. Once I explained how I do it I thought it may be of interest to others. NASA have provided a really excellent web interface to some of their visual data called Worldview. The […]
Mark Brandon • October 6, 2016 I’ve been watching the open water down the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula. I said the cause of that was most likely strong westerly winds. If you look at the sea ice concentration on the western Antarctic Peninsula you can see the effect of these westerly winds. Towards the […]
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. A number of guests are invited […]
The time sequence from the EllsworthLIVE site It is a fantastic time to be interested in polar science. …continue reading 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 […]
Mark Brandon • March 10, 2017 https://storify.com/icey_mark/climateofgavin-scottadamssays-tweetstorm Posted in Science, Storify, twitter. Tags: climate science, Gavin Schmidt, twitter on March 10, 2017 by Mark Brandon. 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 […]