Research Scientist @CUBoulder 🇺🇸 | Professor in Glaciology @NorthumbriaUni 🇬🇧| NOT ACTIVE HERE; find me 👉https://xitter.cf/t.co/LXRdfhuzC1
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Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
#DurlstonPrePrep art competition following our Antartic Art Day. Pupils congratulated the winners and all the amazing crative colouring of Prof Alison Banwell from the STEM Super stars - women of today changing the world book. #durlstoncreate @Artsmarkaward @AliBanwell
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
Join the thriving community of researchers in Boulder, Colorado, as a CIRES Visiting Fellow! Work alongside stellar scientists and staff at world-class @CUBoulder and Boulder’s @NOAA Laboratories. Register for the info session next Monday, Nov 4, 10 am MT: bit.ly/4en5Bdz
ALT Looking for a postdoctoral or sabbatical research opportunity? CIRES invites scientists to join the thriving community of researchers in Boulder, Colorado through our prestigious Visiting Fellows Program. Image of two people in winter gear carrying and dragging equipment across snow and ice
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
Join the thriving community of researchers in Boulder, Colorado, as a CIRES Visiting Fellow! Work alongside stellar scientists and staff at world-class @CUBoulder and Boulder’s @NOAA Laboratories. Register now for the info session on Nov 4, 10 am MT: bit.ly/4en5Bdz
ALT Looking for a postdoctoral or sabbatical research opportunity? CIRES invites scientists to join the thriving community of researchers in Boulder, Colorado through our prestigious Visiting Fellows Program. Image of a woman looking into a microscope
Air temperatures in #Antarctica have reached 28C above average on some days this winter 🥵 theguardian.com/world/articl…
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
Check out our new paper! And please enjoy this great write-up on it in @CIRESnews: cires.colorado.edu/news/warm…
New research article: Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3333-2…
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
Article: Substantial contribution of slush to meltwater area across Antarctic ice shelves
@rebeccadell1 @AliBanwell @sderodahusman @IanWillis16
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
ALT Image of Antarctica with pie charts showing the total maximum composite surface meltwater areas for each region for 2013–2021
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
Staff Members and Associates at the Scott Polar Research Institute are amongst a group of scientists who have made the first ever direct observations of ice shelf fracture due to meltwater loading in Antarctica! shar.es/agsDVR @rebeccadell1 @IanWillis16 @AliBanwell
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
57% of all meltwater on Antarctic ice shelves is held in the form of slush, with the remaining amount in surface ponds & lakes, according to work co-authored by CIRES' @AliBanwell.
@IanWillis16 @rebeccadell1@scottpolar
Read more from @Cambridge_Uni ⤵️
cam.ac.uk/stories/antarctic-…
Excited to be part of this new @NatureGeosci study led by @rebeccadell1 @scottpolar: doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-0…
57% of all meltwater on Antarctic ice shelves is held in the form of slush, with the remaining amount in surface ponds & lakes, according to work co-authored by CIRES' @AliBanwell.
@IanWillis16 @rebeccadell1@scottpolar
Read more from @Cambridge_Uni ⤵️
cam.ac.uk/stories/antarctic-…
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
Today we have published our latest work in @NatureGeosci
Slush accounts for more than half on Antarctica’s surface meltwater area at the peak of the melt season!
The paper is freely available here: doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-0…
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![Pooled meltwater and slush on the Tracy Tremenchus Ice Shelf, which flows into the Southern Ocean. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2018], processed by Rebecca Dell](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GREddSXXQAA1L5-.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Pooled meltwater and slush on the Tracy Tremenchus Ice Shelf, which flows into the Southern Ocean. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2018], processed by Rebecca Dell
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
Our new paper out today in @NatureGeosci!
We identify the possibility of rapid changes in the distance warm water can intrude - and melt - the bottom of ice sheets.
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
@BryonyFreer and I wrote an explainer for @CarbonBrief
carbonbrief.org/guest-post-t…
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
Interested in the drivers of the recently observed seasonal land-ice-flow in Antarctica?
Our new @JGREarthSurface paper reveals summertime speed-up in the Antarctic Peninsula can be attributed to both surface and oceanic forcing.
Read for free here: doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007378
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
ICYMI: New @AGU_Eos story spotlights research led by @AliBanwell. The work shows that ice shelves don’t just buckle under the weight of meltwater lakes — they fracture. ⤵️
eos.org/articles/antarctic-i…
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
New @AGU_Eos story spotlights research led by @AliBanwell. The work shows that ice shelves don’t just buckle under the weight of meltwater lakes — they fracture. Read more ⤵️
Dolines look like massive ice doughnuts.🧊🍩 They’re an ideal research site for studying meltwater lakes in Antarctica.
eos.org/articles/antarctic-i…
Our recently published @igsoc paper features in Boulder's local newspaper today! Our study made the first field observations of #Antarctic ice-shelf fracture induced by the weight of a surface meltwater lake: doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.31
@CIRESnews @NSIDC @BAS_News @CUArtsSciences
Boulder scientists show Antarctic ice shelves fracture under weight of meltwater lakes trib.al/swwGGzG
Congratulations @KhosroGF!! I’m looking forward to working with you as a Co-I on this exciting @nasa proposal!
CIRES Fellow Khosro Ghobadi-Far @KhosroGF has earned a $800,000 grant from @NASA to track ice sheet melt from space! Read more from @CUEngineering ⤵️
colorado.edu/aerospace/2024/…
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
ICYMI: New work led by CIRES' @AliBanwell shows that ice shelves don’t just buckle under the weight of meltwater lakes—they fracture. @IanWillis16 @rebeccadell1
cires.colorado.edu/news/ice-…
Dr. Alison Banwell retweeted
Analysis: Fossil fuels fall to record-low 2.4% of British electricity | @DrSimEvans @VernerViisas w/comment from @NationalGridESO
Read here: buff.ly/44yCy2L
ALT Daily average share of GB electricity from fossil fuels, %, 2009-2024 to date. Source: National Grid Electricity System Operator. Chart by Carbon Brief.
Published today in @igsoc, our new study that includes the first in-situ observations of Antarctic ice-shelf fracture due to surface meltwater lakes: bit.ly/4aZ0SNz
And a mini animation depicting how an ice shelf responds to the filling and draining of surface lakes: youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7ThYP4… (thank you for making this @Tenacious_She @CIRESnews!)