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Cryospheric Sciences

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The bi-polar behaviour of surge-type glaciers – Heidi Sevestre

February 9, 2015
The bi-polar behaviour of surge-type glaciers – Heidi Sevestre
Wahlenbergbreen, Svalbard, in full surge mode (credits: Heïdi Sevestre)

Surge-type glaciers are the bi-polar member of the family of glacier dynamics. Every now and then they go into a complete fury and nobody really understands why. What are surge-type glaciers? Surge-type glaciers typically go through what we call the “surge cycle”. It is divided into two phases; a long quiescent phase during which the glacier is more or less dormant, followed by much shorter phase ...[Read More]

My drone summer – Johnny Ryan

December 9, 2014
My drone summer – Johnny Ryan
UAV on its way back from a mission with Store Glacier, West Greenland, in the background. Credit: Johnny Ryan

In the summer of 2014, our group at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge decided to pursue an ambitious but exciting field campaign in West Greenland. The aim was to survey Store Glacier once a day using a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (see photo above for a view from the UAV on its way back from a mission with Store Glacier, West Greenland in the background). The UAV ...[Read More]