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Women Of Cryo VIII: Natalie Hewit – Documenting Antarctica’s Frozen Voices

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · May 16

Want to find out more about the amazing female director behind National Geographic's hit documentary 'ENDURANCE' - have a look at our latest blog? @egu.eu @egu-cr.bsky.social

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...

Antarctica is a unique place where history, adventure, and science collide. It’s a continent that has fascinated explorers for centuries, but much of its story has been told through the lens of men wh...

❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Apr 30

An amazing turn out for a beautifully sunny women and non binary @egu-cr.bsky.social lunch. What a wonderful community we have @egu.eu

EGU 25 – we’ve got you covered

❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Apr 27

A super useful blog post for any cryosphere folk at @egu.eu !

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...

Are you attending this year’s EGU General Assembly virtual or in person? No matter the way you attend or if it’s your first time or you are coming to Vienna for the GA for years, today we share with y...

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Apr 25

With @egu.eu next week, come and find out all about our Brunt Ice core data analysis! (Tuesday morning, 8.30am, Pico spot 5)

Celebrating at UNESCO: the first-ever global day for glaciers

❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Apr 18

An easter treat! A new @egu-cr.bsky.social blog post is up by Larissa van der Lann!

Grab your easter egg, and have a read!

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...

2025 marks an important year for glaciers, as it’s the official Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, an initiative by UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Part of the initiative is also ...

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · Mar 12

What about a fascinating and unusual PhD hat 🎓 ? In this blog, Dr. Torben Windirsch gives us a tour of his unique PhD hat, which includes many symbols of his Arctic fieldwork discoveries.

👉 Read more here from the Cryospheric Sciences division's blog: egu.eu/26OGT1

Hole drilled into Greenland's heart reveals ice ready to slide into the sea

❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Mar 5

A wonderful article written by Amy Ringrose @bas.ac.uk, explaining what ice core scientists actually do! Have a read to see what I'll be up to with the ice from the Brunt.

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Mar 4

The @egu-cr.bsky.social Blog needs you!

Have you recently published a paper? 📝
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Drop a DM if you're interested!

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a yellow pyramid tent with e.t. the extra terrestrial in it

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Liz Bagshaw Glaciology @lizbagshaw.bsky.social · Feb 7

Hole drilled into Greenland's heart reveals ice ready to slide into the sea | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Unique drilling project has ominous implications for sea-level rise

www.science.org

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Feb 7

And that's the season over. Halley has such a special place in my heart. It's so rare a glaciologist gets to be part of station life the way you do at Halley. A proper little family for three months. ❄️ Nowhere else quite like it! @bas.ac.uk

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 31

Yep 😭😂. I think it's due replacement!

❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 31

No better way to end the season than getting to play around in a dozer for the morning pushing snow! 🚜

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 28

Halley VI science team photo ❄️ A wonderful collection of scientists and engineers keeping all the science on the Brunt Ice Shelf running over the summer and winter

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 26

A little bit of Sunday ice climbing in Antarctica in the sunniest wind scoop! 🧗🏼‍♀️

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 24

A beautiful blue sky day digging a big hole, visited by a Skua. Some last minute equipment servicing before the season ends

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 19

5 weeks later;
4 bore holes
1.5 tonnes of ice cores
64 seismometers
2 km of fibre optic
200 km of radar
11 GPS sites
And lots of games of bridge...
It's time to go home 😴

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 18

Picking up the seismometers after they've been deployed for 5 weeks, and this one had some little footprints from a curious Skua! I wonder if I'll see any pecking in the data 🐦

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❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 16

Every evening we sit and wait for a satellite call from Rothera to check our field team of four is all ok. This evening's call was accompanied by a slowly lowering sun on the horizon. The summer season slowly drawing to a close 🌅

❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 16

Here we are trying to image the sea/ice interface on the Brunt ice shelf. It's quite mushy and not a clear divide, and could be anywhere between 60-200 m thick, as we can't tell from the radar alone. Hopefully lots of stacked hammer hits will tell us!

❄️ Emma Pearce ❄️ @emmapearce.bsky.social · Jan 16

This is a type of silicone! It means the plate doesn't freeze to the ground when you hit it, and helps make a nice impulsive source when the hammer hits and bounces back.