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Ice cores, climate, Antarctic science. Dad. Assistant prof @UMNews @CFANS. Dir. for Field Research @COLDEX_STC. IG/TikTok @ icy_pete. he/him 🇦🇶🇺🇸
Oct 5, 2021 14 tweets 5 min read
Thread🧵: I'm happy to share the final report from our Antarctic Subsea Cable Workshop held in June.

What did we learn in considering full internet connectivity to #Antarctica? A thread... (illustrations by ⭐️@DrawnWell⭐️) 1/14

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Image Finding 1. Existing & future Antarctic research would be enhanced if bandwidth limitations were eliminated. Especially critical is expanding our ability to observe Antarctica & the Southern Ocean in a warming world, as we heard in from @helenafricker @Scripps_Ocean & B. Howe 2/ Image
Nov 3, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
Waiting in line to #vote? Waiting for #polls to close? Need 1 min of icy entertainment this #Election2020?

Enjoy this compilation of the sounds made by pure ice boreholes in #Antarctica. 🕳🧊🇦🇶🔊
Nov 2, 2020 8 tweets 6 min read
Eight years ago today, we reopened camp at Roosevelt Island, #Antarctica. That season, a NZ-led 🇳🇿 team recovered a 764 meter long ice core to bedrock.

What are we looking at in this satellite image? 🛰🇦🇶 What you see at Roosevelt Island, #Antarctica 1) Large living tents and long, partly buried drill trench (with flags on top)