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The Dolomites, once covered by lush conifer forests, are still scarred by the devastating Vaia Storm of 2018. Witnessing these landscapes today reminds us how fragile our mountain ecosystems are. The struggle is far from over: now the spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is spreading through weakened forests, killing countless trees and transforming the landscape. It’s a lesson in the urgent need for biodiversity and better forest management.
The Dolomites, once covered by lush conifer forests, are still scarred by the devastating Vaia Storm of 2018. Witnessing these landscapes today reminds us how fragile our mountain ecosystems are. The struggle is far from over: now the spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is spreading through weakened forests, killing countless trees and transforming the landscape. It’s a lesson in the urgent need for biodiversity and better forest management.
The Dolomites, once covered by lush conifer forests, are still scarred by the devastating Vaia Storm of 2018. Witnessing these landscapes today reminds us how fragile our mountain ecosystems are. The struggle is far from over: now the spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is spreading through weakened forests, killing countless trees and transforming the landscape. It’s a lesson in the urgent need for biodiversity and better forest management.
The Dolomites, once covered by lush conifer forests, are still scarred by the devastating Vaia Storm of 2018. Witnessing these landscapes today reminds us how fragile our mountain ecosystems are. The struggle is far from over: now the spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is spreading through weakened forests, killing countless trees and transforming the landscape. It’s a lesson in the urgent need for biodiversity and better forest management.
The Dolomites, once covered by lush conifer forests, are still scarred by the devastating Vaia Storm of 2018. Witnessing these landscapes today reminds us how fragile our mountain ecosystems are. The struggle is far from over: now the spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is spreading through weakened forests, killing countless trees and transforming the landscape. It’s a lesson in the urgent need for biodiversity and better forest management.
Pod of Narwhals, monodon monoceros, photographed by Dr Jason Box near Petermann Glacier on July 15,/2009. Dr Box was on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise as one of a team of independent scientists during the first leg of a three-month expedition to monitor and bear witness to the Arctic meltdown due to climate change.
Photo by Dr Jason Box / GREENPEACE
One of four "scrub jays," all of which have a blue necklace and previously considered a single species. This version is endemic to special scrub oak habitat in Florida and is considered vulnerable due to the loss of this habitat. Recent research indicates only 10,000 or so individuals exist and climate warming is leading to decreased nesting success. (“Living Bird” Cornell Lab of Ornithology Vol 44, Number 2)
Oscar Scherer SP Sarasota FL, Feb 2025. © C.S. Wood
A huge iceberg rising 36 metres from the waters of Kane Basin, north Greenland. (79 57.359 N 064 51.120 W). It is likely that this unusual feature started life as an englacial channel within the Humboldt glacier that it has calved from. Englacial channels carry melt-water from the surface of the glacier down to the bed-rock underneath. Because icebergs turn in the water the feature may also have been part of a moulin -a vertical channel draining into the glacier. Glaciologists sometimes refer to these holes within glaciers as "Rothlisburger channels". Rothlisburger proposed a theory of how an equilibrium develops between the external forces of the enclosing glacial structure and the internal pressure, (flow and frictional melt rate) of the water inside. Some of these properties appear to be evident in this iceberg, though the channel may have since been widened and enlarged by the subsequent tidal and surface melting and erosion. This berg was observed to drift to and fro across Kane Basin for some weeks, at different times, grounding on the sea bed, on both the North and South sides. A team of scientists are on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.
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I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
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I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.
Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
Presenters included:
Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)
Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)
Panel members:
Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)
Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)
Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)
Washed out sea wall that protects the village from waves.
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ICSC went to Guiuan, Eastern Samar in support with WORTH Initiative to conduct a workshop series on Gender and Development (GAD) and Climate Change Planning. The workshops aim to enhance local development plans and budget to be responsive to both gender and development and climate change adaptation efforts in the municipality of Guiuan.
One of the highlights of the workshops is photo voice, where the participants take photos in the ground based on several research questions focus on climate risk and vulnerability assessment. The participants visited wo sites in Guiuan, in Brgy. Campuyong which is a coastal community and also a small island, in Brgy. Trinidad in Tubabao island.
Photos taken by: ICSC staff and participants of photovoice workshop.
This innovative digester technology creates energy and low carbon transportation fuel from animal waste by-products.
This innovative digester technology creates energy and low carbon transportation fuel from animal waste by-products.
"Are the products of climate impact research really useful?" Plenary debate with Fiona Harvey/The Guardian (moderation) and Kristie Ebi, , Martin Parry, Upashna Sharma, Xianfu Lu, Eberhard Faust, Filipe Duarte Santos, Michael Obersteiner on May 28th. Graphic Recording: Christoph Kellner/PIK
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Greenpeace, 350.org and coalition activists rally behind a sandbag wall at the harbor in Boston, Mass., Oct. 24, 2009, to call attention to the threat of sea level rise from global warming.
This was one of over 5,200 events happening around the world as part of the 350.org International Day of Climate Action on October 24, 2009. More information at www.350.org
A huge iceberg rising 36 metres from the waters of Kane Basin, north Greenland. (79 57.359 N 064 51.120 W). It is likely that this unusual feature started life as an englacial channel within the Humboldt glacier that it has calved from. Englacial channels carry melt-water from the surface of the glacier down to the bed-rock underneath. Because icebergs turn in the water the feature may also have been part of a moulin -a vertical channel draining into the glacier. Glaciologists sometimes refer to these holes within glaciers as "Rothlisburger channels". Rothlisburger proposed a theory of how an equilibrium develops between the external forces of the enclosing glacial structure and the internal pressure, (flow and frictional melt rate) of the water inside. Some of these properties appear to be evident in this iceberg, though the channel may have since been widened and enlarged by the subsequent tidal and surface melting and erosion. This berg was observed to drift to and fro across Kane Basin for some weeks, at different times, grounding on the sea bed, on both the North and South sides. A team of scientists are on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.
Photo by Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
A huge iceberg rising 36 metres from the waters of Kane Basin, north Greenland. (79 57.359 N 064 51.120 W). It is likely that this unusual feature started life as an englacial channel within the Humboldt glacier that it has calved from. Englacial channels carry melt-water from the surface of the glacier down to the bed-rock underneath. Because icebergs turn in the water the feature may also have been part of a moulin -a vertical channel draining into the glacier. Glaciologists sometimes refer to these holes within glaciers as "Rothlisburger channels". Rothlisburger proposed a theory of how an equilibrium develops between the external forces of the enclosing glacial structure and the internal pressure, (flow and frictional melt rate) of the water inside. Some of these properties appear to be evident in this iceberg, though the channel may have since been widened and enlarged by the subsequent tidal and surface melting and erosion. This berg was observed to drift to and fro across Kane Basin for some weeks, at different times, grounding on the sea bed, on both the North and South sides. A team of scientists are on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.
The 'whirlpool' and crack at 80˚57'28" N and 061˚20'10" W on the Petermann glacier. Geophysicist Dr Richard Bates, of the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St. Andrews, takes 'casts' of tempearture pressure current and salinity. He is assisted by ice logistician Eric working on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in Petermann Fjord, northwest Greenland. Dr Bates makes casts -dropping a CTD probe (Conductivity Temp Depth) into the pool and pulling it back up at a slow speed.
The data recorded by the probe is later downloaded into computer software plotting accurate measurements of water temperature, salinity, turbidity (how turbulent the water is), current strength and direction in the pool, within the glacier. This will give a data set that describes the oceanic conditions at the time that the Petermann glacier disintegrates.
Dr Bates is part of a team of scientists on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.
An aerial view of one of the 'upwellings' at the front of Humboldt glacier. Glaciologists working on the Arctic Sunrise became interested in these 'upwellings' or plumes of turbid fresh-water as they contain valuable information about melt dynamics within Humboldt. A large quantity of melt water, flowing from inland, has been making its way to the base of the front of the glacier, via networks of ravines, moulins and channels to cause this upwelling through the salt water in the fjord. The ice debris and surface differences in this photograph show the boundary where saline and fresh water mix.
Humboldt calves bergs into the Kane Basin in northern Greenland, the widest glacier in the northern hemisphere, it has a front of 110 Kilometres across. Humboldt and Petermann glaciers between them (both currently being studied by a Greenpeace expedition) drain most of the ice from the N/W part of the Greenland ice-sheet. Between them, the two glaciers are responsible for 10 percent of the total ice drained from the Greenland ice-sheet.
In order to study these two glaciers and others like them, a team of scientists are on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.
Photo by Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
Dr Alun Hubbard from the university of Aberystwyth in Wales, UK, places a Geodetic GPS unit on the front of the Humboldt glacier in north west Greenland. One of many techniques that glaciologists use to gain data about glacial dynamics and melt rate, the GPS units measure vertical displacement (the up and down movement caused by tidal variation) and horizontal velocity/ strain rates (caused by the pressure of ice upstream of the glacier). A pair of GPS (Trimble 5700s) are deployed, one 5 metres, the other 300 metres from the front. The data from the two GPS units, recorded in 10 second intervals, will help understand further the cause and response systems which trigger calving of glaciers on Greenland. Dropped off on the precarious face by helicopter, Hubbard drills 3 metre deep holes with a drill and ice auger, which take steel poles holding the GPS fast to the ice. Hubbard returns to collect them some weeks later.
Humboldt glacier which calves bergs into the Kane Basin in northern Greenland, is the widest glacier in the northern hemisphere, it has a front of 110 Kilometres across. Humboldt and Petermann glaciers between them (both currently being studied by a Greenpeace expedition) drain most of the ice from the N/W part of the Greenland ice-sheet. Between them, the two glaciers are responsible for 10 percent of the total ice drained from the Greenland ice-sheet.
In order to study these two glaciers and others like them, a team of scientists are on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.
Photo by Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
Dr Alun Hubbard from the university of Aberystwyth in Wales, UK, places a Geodetic GPS unit on the front of the Humboldt glacier in north west Greenland. One of many techniques that glaciologists use to gain data about glacial dynamics and melt rate, the GPS units measure vertical displacement (the up and down movement caused by tidal variation) and horizontal velocity/ strain rates (caused by the pressure of ice upstream of the glacier). A pair of GPS (Trimble 5700s) are deployed, one 5 metres, the other 300 metres from the front. The data from the two GPS units, recorded in 10 second intervals, will help understand further the cause and response systems which trigger calving of glaciers on Greenland. Dropped off on the precarious face by helicopter, Hubbard drills 3 metre deep holes with a drill and ice auger, which take steel poles holding the GPS fast to the ice. Hubbard returns to collect them some weeks later.
Humboldt glacier which calves bergs into the Kane Basin in northern Greenland, is the widest glacier in the northern hemisphere, it has a front of 110 Kilometres across. Humboldt and Petermann glaciers between them (both currently being studied by a Greenpeace expedition) drain most of the ice from the N/W part of the Greenland ice-sheet. Between them, the two glaciers are responsible for 10 percent of the total ice drained from the Greenland ice-sheet.
In order to study these two glaciers and others like them, a team of scientists are on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.
Photo by Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
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Geophysicist Dr Richard Bates, of the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St. Andrews, pulling up a CTD probe in front of Humboldt glacier. He uses the device to takes 'casts' which measure temperature, water pressure, current direction, salinity and turbidity in the fjord. Dr Bates makes 'casts' by dropping the CTD probe (standing for Conductivity Temp Depth) into the fjord and pulling it back up at a slow speed.
The data recorded by the probe is later downloaded into computer software plotting accurate measurements of the ocean characteristics at the front of Humboldt glacier. This will give a data set that describes the oceanic conditions at the time other melting and movement occurs, measured by other devices installed on the glacier itself, by Bate's colleagues.
Humboldt is the widest glacier in the northern hemisphere, it has a front of 110 Kilometres across. Humboldt and Petermann glaciers between them (both currently being studied by a Greenpeace expedition) drain most of the ice from the N/W part of the Greenland ice-sheet. Between them, the two glaciers are responsible for 10 percent of the total ice drained from the Greenland ice-sheet.
Dr Bates is part of a team of scientists on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.
Photo by Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
A photograph taken in the later stages of a calving event on the Humboldt glacier. Calving tends to happen during the parts of the day when sunlight warms the front of the glacier -known as atmospheric melting. Many other factors influence calving such as pressure from the weight of ice behind the front and currents erodiung the base. Humboldt glacier which calves bergs into the Kane Basin in northern Greenland is the widest glacier in the northern hemisphere, it has a front of 110 Kilometres across. Humboldt and Petermann glaciers between them (both currently being studied by a Greenpeace expedition) drain most of the ice from the N/W part of the Greenland ice-sheet. Between them, the two glaciers are responsible for 10 percent of the total ice drained from the Greenland ice-sheet.
In order to study these two glaciers and others like them, a team of scientists are on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009.
Photo by Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace