Cryospheric Sciences

Image of the Week: Under the Sea

Sophie Berger November 20, 2015 Editor post, Image of the Week 1 Comment

Sea ice from below. Credit: Marcus Arnold

Always wondered how it looks like under the sea ice?
Getting an answer is simpler than you might think: Just go out to the front of McMurdo ice shelf in Antarctica and drill a tube into the sea ice. Then let people climb down and take pictures of the ice from below.
More information:
– Photo taken by Marcus Arnold, Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury during his November 2015, Antarctic Expedition.
– More photos of their expedition on https://instagram.com/the_ross_ice_shelf_programme/

By Sophie Berger

Sophie Berger is a postdoc at the Alfred Wegener Institut, Germany. She is using various remote sensing data and techniques to investigate the dynamics and stability of the ice shelves in Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica). She completed her PhD at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium. She tweets as @SoBrgr.

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