Simon, please introduce yourself. Hello, I am Simon Reifenberg from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, where I work in the Physical Oceanography section. As a seagoing oceanographer, I usually analyse and interpret observational data which are collected during ship-based expeditions.…
Save the dates for the OCEAN ICE Annual Project Meeting, 15-17 September 2026, which will be hosted by the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK and online. Stay tuned for more information. Image from: What is Cambridge famous for? | The…
Matthias, please introduce yourself. My name is Matthias Scheiter and I am a postdoc working on coupled ice sheet and subglacial hydrology modelling applied to the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Tell us about your professional and academic career before becoming part of the OCEAN ICE…
OCEAN ICE was presented by Ruth Mottram at the SnowPI project kick off meeting, held on 18-21 of May 2026, in Bergen. Ruth Presented highlights from the project including; demonstrating the importance of freshwater fluxes from Antarctica for both global…
A new study by Kreuzer et al. (2026, OCEAN ICE Contribution #32) reveals that a critical non-linear response in the Antarctic climate system, the meltwater–stratification feedback, becomes less effective under strong global warming. This feedback loop, central to OCEAN ICE’s…