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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️

@oceanandice.bsky.social

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Joint Director, UK National Climate Science Partnership Professorial Fellow in Oceanography, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Science Leader, British Antarctic Survey Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC Ocean & Cryosphere .. more

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Apr 22

New book!! 📕

Antarctica is intimately connected to the rest of our planet, affecting climate, ecosystems, cultures and society. Our new book draws together international experts to explore this influence, and to understand what humans are doing to Antarctica (1/n)
www.routledge.com/Antarctica-a...

Cover of book "Antarctica and the Earth System"

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 4d

🌊 PhD studentship alert! Study how glaciers create internal tsunamis beneath the ice.
Join a project with Newcastle Univ., BAS & SAMS — combining tank experiments + models to reveal how calving glaciers stir the ocean.
🔗 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
#PhD #Oceanography #Glaciology

Modelling internal tsunamis generated by glacial calving

iapetus.ac.uk

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 4d

... and the watch is a Submariner?

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 5d

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 5d

🤣 Good point!

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 5d

Some people steal paper clips from the stationary cupboard… others think bigger… 😉

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Aug 31

Two stories juxtaposed on the BBC website... sigh.

Anyone else spot the irony here?

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Aug 27

Genius!

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Aug 14

It still gets used sometimes, normally in the context of a FID being a person undertaking fieldwork South. Some phrases like "FID stare" have persisted also.

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Feb 27

🎉Congratulations 🎉 to Prof Kate Hendry @krhendry.bsky.social who has been awarded The Geological Society's Bigsby Medal for eminent services to geology.

We already knew she was a top tier scientist, but now it's official!

A photo of Prof Kate Hendry, smiling at the camera. She is wearing sunglasses and a woolly headband. She's sat in front of a calm ocean with a forested hill behind her to the right.

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thanks @w8rbler.bsky.social - that's very helpful! Strange that two candidates did not reply....

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yes, I like that we can rank candidates not just vote for one - gives lots of scope to express our opinions clearly!

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jul 13

Not sure; will check. Hope so!

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Melanie J. Leng, Alessandro Tagliabue

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jul 12

I am co-convening a meeting at the Royal Society later this year, with @krhendry.bsky.social and other very excellent polar science colleagues. If you have interests relating to Antarctica and the impacts of climate change, please consider participating!

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jul 11

Are you a scientist with an interest in #ClimateChange and Antarctica? This September, join a team of leading oceanographers & climate scientists from @bas.ac.uk for a scientific meeting at the Royal Society: royalsociety.org/science-even... @oceanandice.bsky.social @krhendry.bsky.social

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Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Melanie J. Leng, Alessandro Tagliabue , and 1 more Scott C. Doney, Melanie J. Leng, Alessandro Tagliabue, Klaus Dodds

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jul 11

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jul 5

There are some splendid fountains in Cambridge, e.g. the one in Trinity College. Not sure anything to compete with that walrus though! Maybe we should try to introduce some penguins to it… 🐧🤣

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 28

Recommended listen: Scientists at the University of Cambridge, including Prof Michael Meredith ( @oceanandice.bsky.social ), discussed on The Naked Scientists podcast how the latest polar science is tracking climate change’s impact in Antarctica.

On thin ice: The race to save Antarctica

How the latest polar science is tracking climate change's effect on Antarctica...

www.thenakedscientists.com

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 26

Therapeutic.

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 26

I quite liked filtering.

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 18

Last night we were breaking through sea ice, in the dark, in blizzard conditions. My respect for the skill of the officers and crew of the ship just reached a new level…!

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 17

Correct!

a man with a beard and long hair is standing in a room with a purple background .

ALT: a man with a beard and long hair is standing in a room with a purple background .

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 17

A @bas.ac.uk tradition... when the ship departs Rothera Research Station for the last time, the winterers remaining on base light flares to bid us farewell.

They will now continue their science and activities on base throughout the winter, while we proceed back to sea to continue ours.

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 15

Rothera Research Station looking amazing in the moonlight, with a hint of a dawn...

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 14

Attention to detail ! 👍

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 14

Apple Watches are amazing gadgets, and can tell you the time of sunrise and sunset for wherever you are in the world... this time of year in Antarctica, the calculation is relatively simple.... 🤣

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 13

Check out our latest and greatest on Antarctic glacial melt and its impact on marine life, led by the awesome Jack Pan!

Perfectly-timed publication, given that I'm currently in the Antarctic gathering more data on these things.....!!

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Impact of glacial meltwater on phytoplankton biomass along the Western Antarctic Peninsula - Communications Earth & Environment

Increased glacial melt is strongly correlated with phytoplankton chlorophyll-a, according to analysis of remote sensing, reanalysis products, and field observations from the West Antarctic Peninsula.

www.nature.com

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 12

Regular visits from seals help keep our spirits up!

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 8

Yes - near Blaiklock Island. So beautiful.

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 8

It is traumatic to see…!