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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

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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 · 1d

🌊 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 · 1d

... and the watch is a Submariner?

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 2d

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 2d

🤣 Good point!

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 2d

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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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!

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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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 26

Some personal reflections, at the end of a remarkable expedition... we've seen amazing things, and experienced Antarctica in the depths of its dark winter. We're returning home with an unparalleled dataset, and a deeper appreciation of this awe-inspiring place.

www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/r...

A first for RRS Sir David Attenborough: science in the dark - British Antarctic Survey

Prof Mike Meredith shares his first of its kind science cruise on the RRS Sir David Attenborough conducting research in the polar winter.

www.bas.ac.uk

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy Midwinter from Antarctica!

We spent it at Elephant Island, where Shackleton and his men were marooned before their incredible escape and rescue.

A privilege to be here at this time of year.

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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 18

📢 New paper alert! 📢

New insight into how sea ice controls the ocean uptake of carbon dioxide around Antarctica, obtained from the unique year-round Rothera Time Series.

Delighted to be part of this study, led by the very excellent Elise Droste.

🧪❄️🥼🌊

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

Sea ice controls net ocean uptake of carbon dioxide by regulating wintertime stratification - Communications Earth & Environment

Interannual variability of ocean uptake of carbon dioxide is governed by winter sea ice cover, according to analysis of carbonate chemistry observations along the West Antarctic Peninsula.

www.nature.com

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INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · Jun 17

👏🏽 Kudos to all the authors of this new book on Antarctica and the Earth System, including INSTAARites Cassandra Brooks & Sharon Stammerjohn. They are both chapter lead authors!

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

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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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