Taking photographs is an easy way to keep yourself endlessly entertained whilst in the polar regions. I started posting 1 picture a week on twitter as part of what was called “ice photo wednesday” and here they are: Calving glacier front in Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Sea ice and Icebergs in the Bellingshausen Sea The […]
Taking photographs is an easy way to keep yourself endlessly entertained whilst in the polar regions. I started posting 1 picture a week on twitter as part of what was called “ice photo wednesday” and here they are: The Errera Channel, Antarctic Peninsula
Mark Brandon • August 29, 2014 In the old days Antarctica wasn’t mapped and measured by satellites like it is now. In the past it was all about exploration. Scientists were dropped at bases by ship, and then left for at least a year – sometimes two. Very occasionally more. When winter comes the sea […]
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 South – the very edge of […]
I was reading my copy of Nansen’s Farthest North the other day and came across a discussion of The Jeannette Expedition which was led by Lt. Cmdr. George DeLong. Nansen wrote I wondered if people knew what a water sky was? …continue reading On twitter this pm is a not unexpected, but rather interesting looking […]
— 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 area of Antarctic glaciological interest is […]
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 movie clip of a ship in […]
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 • 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 […]
Mark Brandon • February 17, 2017 I noticed yesterday that a polynya had formed in front of the Ronne Ice Shelf over the last 2 weeks. Screengrab from NASA Worldview 17 February 2017 In that image it is about 27,000 km2 in area. I mapped the opening of the polynya from MODIS imagery over the last two […]
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 […]
Mark Brandon • December 23, 2016 It’s been quite a year in the Arctic. Over the winter 2015/6 we had the strongest and coldest Arctic polar vortex of the last 68 years. This contributed to a low maximum in Arctic sea ice extent. At that stage only the locals and the scientists were looking, and I […]
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 • April 20, 2018 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 […]