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The Greenland Ice Sheet
Off the back of the BBC's Frozen Planet, Alun Hubbard asked me to create a website detailing the research him and his team are carrying out on the Greenland Ice Sheet. The site is now up on the university webpages at www.aber.ac.uk/greenland and encourage everyone to have a look. As well as …
Read moreGold Mine Dream Jump
Meanwhile, in Poland…
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1000 metres of rope
120 metres underground
78 metres high
4 seconds freefall
Glacial karst: Descent into the Gornergletscher
The Gornergletscher is the second largest glacier system in the Alps, found on the western side of the Monte Rosa Massif flowing down towards the town of Zermatt. The glacier was the centre of interest for the Italian La Venta team during the 80's and 90's, during which time they …
Read moreFire and Ice in Kamchatka
Bordering the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' lies Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula - a territory twice the size of Great Britain yet containing a population no more than that of Cardiff. Apart from being a vast wilderness, the region is renowned for its high volcanic activity and is what attracted Colin and myself …
Read moreA new Arctic sea ice record?
Measurements taken from NASA's Aqua satellite have shown that the area covered be sea ice in the Arctic Ocean this year came narrowly close to the record low set in 2007, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The animation below shows how sea ice cover has …
Read moreHurricane Katia
Photos taken along Aberystwyth promenade at high-tide last night as the tail end of Hurricane Katia hit the Welsh coastline.
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Galeria Garimpeiros
Inspired by the promise of 'pretties' on the survey, Colin and I planned to reach Passion Fruit Chamber in Ogof Draenen and take some photos. Unfortunately for us the 'muddy and intimidating duck' in Y Gwter Fawr Streamway became too tight for us to pass so had to turn back. …
Read moreClimate models full of hot air
A paper recently published in the journal Remote Sensing has found that observations made by NASA's Terra satellite in fact contradict a number of assumptions fed into alarmist computer models, including those of the United Nation's IPCC. Dr. Roy Spencer used data from between 2000 through to 2011 to show that …
Read moreJersey to Scilly
I joined Gambo for another short voyage, this time from the Channel Islands to the Isles of Scilly. The plan was to carry out some swath bathymetry off the islands looking for any potential glacial features (see figure) before she returned to Aber once more. After waiting around Jersey for favourable …
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