📢 New paper, led by CPOM's Qi Huang and Mal McMillan (Lancaster University), showcases an improved 15-year record of ice sheet elevation from @esaearth.esa.int CryoSat-2 radar altimetry🛰️ Read the paper 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please consider submitting an abstract to our @agu.org 2026 session, “The Cryosphere is for All’! @cires.colorado.edu @ciresceee.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social #AGU26 #cryosphere 🧊 🧪

AGU Cryosphere Section@agucryo.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Cryosphere Is for All is accepting abstracts for the 2026 AGU Fall Meeting! agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr... It explores broadening participation in cryospheric sciences through inclusive fieldwork, open science, mentorship, engagement with Indigenous communities, and other community efforts.

It's been a fantastic week of talks and posters @gpr2026.bsky.social as experts from around the world joined together to explore advances in GPR. ⭐CPOM PhD Researcher Marlena earning joint best poster award 🛰️CPOM's Dr Rosie Willatt gave a talk on PoSARA. For more info - links in comments 👇

📽️CPOM PhD Researcher Alicia (@ucl.ac.uk) spent ten days at the @esa.int CEMSIE campaign - digging snow pits, running experiments, and collecting data to improve future satellite retrievals. Read the full article and watch the day-in-the-life film 👇 www.youtube.com/shorts/OKzRs...

A day in the life at CEMSIE camp

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📸We know quite a few environmental scientists also have a fantastic eye for photography! If this sounds like you, check out this competition from @royalsocietypublishing.org 👇

Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · 2mo ago

Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? We're delighted to announce that the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 14 August 2026! 🎉 Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

Great work @icewicks.bsky.social 👏 Here's another fascinating article from CPOM Researcher Izzy, this time on the Greenland ice sheet, it's current state, how it's changing and what might happen in the future 👇

Bethan Davies@iceybethan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How will the Greenland Ice Sheet behave in the future? It's all down to what carbon emissions trajectory we follow. 🚨 New article 🚨 by @icewicks.bsky.social www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and...

🧊 If you want to find out more about Antarctic blue ice, how it forms and why it's important, check out this great article from CPOM PhD Researcher @icewicks.bsky.social 👇 www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacier-proc...

Blue Ice Areas in Antarctica - AntarcticGlaciers.org

Isabelle Wicks  What is blue ice? Most the surface of Antarctica is covered in snow and firn (snow that has survived at least one melt season) (see firn). However, in mountainous regions and around th...

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Isabelle Wicks@icewicks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Another published article for some summer reading, this time on one of my favourite research areas - Antarctic blue ice! Go check it out on AntarcticGlaciers 🧊

The ice Izzy models is thousands of miles away. Her CPOM / @northumbriauni.bsky.social PhD has got her closer to it than most. 🧊 2 minutes on what a CPOM polar science PhD can really involve - from running MONARCHS simulations to fieldwork in Ny-Ålesund with @bas.ac.uk 👇 📹 youtu.be/VGX_kwPb_8Q

Izzy's PhD story

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✨We are proud to share that Professor Daniel Feltham (University of Reading) and CPOM Principal Investigator for Sea Ice Modelling, has been awarded the Seligman Crystal by the International Glaciological Society - one of the society's highest honours! 🔗 www.igsoc.org/about/awards...

And on Friday afternoon at #EGU26 we have this series of posters from colleagues from the University of Reading and @ucl.ac.uk We hope you have all had a fantastic week in Vienna and wish you a safe journey home! 🙂

Tomorrow afternoon (Friday) at #EGU26 🛰️ Dr Karla Boxall (Lancaster University) will present on a framework for evaluating altimetry uncertainty estimates. 🖥️ Dr Joe Phillips (Lancaster University) on extracting swath elevation information using probabilistic deep learning. Links in comments 👇

Coming up tomorrow (Thursday) at #EGU26 CPOM science highlights for Thursday include posters from Emily Glen and Diego Moral Pombo (Lancaster University), and Luca Bianchi (Cardiff University) ⭐ CPOM highlights for the week listed here 👇 🔗 cpom.org.uk/cpom-egu-2026/

Coming up tomorrow (Thursday) at #EGU26 CPOM science highlights for Thursday include posters from Emily Glen and Diego Moral Pombo (Lancaster University), and Luca Bianchi (Cardiff University) ⭐ CPOM highlights for the week listed here 👇 🔗 cpom.org.uk/cpom-egu-2026/

🛰️ Coming up on Friday morning at #EGU26, CPOM's Dr Rosemary Willatt will present on progress of the PoSARA concept - a novel satellite instrument concept using polarimetric capability to estimate snow depth on sea ice, land ice and land from space. Read more 👇 🔗 cpom.org.uk/cpom-egu26-b...

Coming up tomorrow (Wednesday) at #EGU26 We have a CPOM poster presented by Karla Boxall (Lancaster University) on Cryo-TEMPO, an @esaearth.esa.int CryoSat-2 thematic product over land ice! If you're at the conference, do have a chat with Karla and find out more about Cryo-TEMPO🛰️

We hope everyone is enjoying the first day of #EGU26! We are really enjoying all the great photos 😃 🔬A heads up for tomorrow we have CPOM PhD Researcher Ben Graves (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) presenting on isotopic analysis of Himalayan meltwater 👇 🔗 cpom.org.uk/cpomegu26-bl...

We hope everyone is enjoying the first day of #EGU26! We are really enjoying all the great photos 😃 🔬A heads up for tomorrow we have CPOM PhD Researcher Ben Graves (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) presenting on isotopic analysis of Himalayan meltwater 👇 🔗 cpom.org.uk/cpomegu26-bl...

Today is the day🥳. Welcome to #EGU26! We are thrilled to have you all here. Enjoy it to the fullest🙌. And let the journey begin ✨!

Starting soon! Join us for: From Honest Brokers to Lobbyists: What Could Be the Role of Scientists in Different Contexts and Countries? 📍 Room: E1 👉 See you there: https://www.egu26.eu/session/58588 #EGU26

Tomorrow @ #EGU26 👇 CPOM Doctoral Researcher Yiliang Ma (SCENARIO DTP/University of Reading), will be presenting her study running two multi-century climate simulations under high-emissions forcing, comparing an evolving Greenland ice sheet against a static one. 🔗 cpom.org.uk/cpomegu26-uk...

Tomorrow @ #EGU26 👇 Dr Lauren Gregoire @universityofleeds.bsky.social will be presenting on using state-of-the-art coupled model FAMOUS–BISICLES, to examine ice sheet changes in the Northern Hemisphere during the two most recent deglaciations. Read our intro 🔗 cpom.org.uk/cpomegu26-bl...

The @egu.eu #EGU26 2026 kick starts on Monday, and we have a range of presentations and posters from CPOM scientists to look forward to. Here are our highlights for Monday 👇 Full programme - www.egu26.eu

🧊The Greenland Ice Sheet lost 139 billion tonnes of ice in 2025! New @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #ESOTC report out today. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025?u...

📣Out now! We are pleased to release the European State of the Climate 2025 report, published jointly by #CopernicusClimate @ecmwf.int & @wmo-global.bsky.social. Explore climate conditions, key events of 2025 in Europe, long-term climate indicators, climate policy and action for biodiversity, more! ⬇️

📣 #EGU seeks proposals for the development of a #ScienceForPolicy workshop! Have some ideas? Why not submit your proposal and get up to €2,000? 📝 Submit your proposal by 24 April 2026. 👀 Learn more here: egu.eu/9RMKKK 📸 Stephan Sprinz on imaggeo.egu.eu

🌍🛰️ CPOM's work on the ESA CCI Ice Sheets Antarctica has been mentioned in this blog from the UK Space Agency on the five ways EO is helping us understand and protect our planet👇 space.blog.gov.uk/2026/04/22/e...

Earth Day: The Power of Earth Observation

Here are just five of the ways the UK is using Earth Observation to benefit our planet.

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The cryosphere shapes sea levels, drives global weather patterns and supports ecosystems, but few of us get the chance to visit these stunning landscapes. So we're sharing some clips from fieldwork our scientists have undertaken in recent years 👇 #EarthDay #Cryosphere #NetZeroPolarScience

There are lakes buried deep beneath the Greenland ice sheet we can’t see called subglacial lakes. 📽️ In this video CPOM's Professor Mal McMillan @lancasteruni.bsky.social explains how researchers working on the GLOBE project aim to track them 👇 🔗 youtu.be/ECv9FnnQf1k

An introduction to the GLOBE project

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🛰️Sunday is #HumanSpaceFlightDay - 65 years since humans first reached orbit. Satellite technology has transformed what we know about the cryosphere. Scroll down to read about just some of the CPOM science the space age made possible in recent years 👇 #HumanSpaceFlightDay #PolarScience

To the Moon (and back)🌖 A routine calibration by Copernicus Sentinel‑2 captured this image of the Moon. And now, with Artemis II on its way there, Europe is part of the journey — powering Orion with the European Service Module and supporting the mission from the ground across the continent.