📣 #FPA2Event – Monaco Polar Symposium 2026 ❄️

The 3rd edition of the Monaco Polar Symposium will take place from 25–27 February 2026 at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.

Co-organised by the Prince Albert II Foundation, SCAR, IASC and the Musée Océanographique.

🚨 @bepsiiseaice.bsky.social is heading to the @clicwcrp.bsky.social Open Science Conference with a dedicated session!

✍️ Submit your abstract and join us in Wellington this February!

⏳ Deadline for abstract submission: 31 July

📍 More info: clic2026.com

Let’s bring the sea-ice community together!

Just arrived in Tromsø to start my SCAR fellowship work over the next couple of months focused on all things #icealgae. Thanks to the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social and Prince II Albert Foundation for the support in making this possible. Excited to get things started! #Antarctic meets #Arctic

3️⃣ "Dramatic changes to the amount and persistence of sea ice mean potentially severe impacts for krill and other marine life reliant on the algae. Understanding this ecosystem is essential as climate change reshapes polar environments." — Laura Dalman @polaur.bsky.social

1️⃣ At its peak, #Antarctic sea ice covers twice the area of Australia. That's a lot of habitat for the microscopic algae that live in and under sea ice – like 'a vast unseen meadow', says AAPP PhD student Laura Dalman @utas.edu.au (seen in action on an ice floe, below).

📸 S Moreau

New paper in GRL! 🚨We compiled 30 years of organic carbon data from 362 #Antarctic ice cores to provide a robust estimate of net community production in sea ice - key to understanding the role of ice algae in polar ecosystems. #seaice

Open access: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...