The polar regions are a critical aspect of the climate crisis, but polar science is not always accessible, especially to young students. The Polar Climate Ambassadors program seeks to help close ...
Research by Center for Climate and Life Fellow Pierre Dutrieux will lead to greater understanding of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet's future stability and associated sea level rise.
A small team of scientists ventures out onto the Greenland ice sheet to study the forces large and small that are accelerating the melting of the world's second-largest ice mass.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/10/01/how-the-greenland-ice-is-melting-up-close/
As climate warms, the Greenland ice sheet is melting, helping to fuel global sea-level rise. Follow a small team of scientists as they hike onto the sheet to investigate the forces large and smal...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/10/01/photo-essay-melting-greenland-up-close/
Lamont's Robin Bell is living proof of the importance of encouraging young women to study STEM disciplines. Her breakthrough research, fueled by passionate intellectual curiosity, has been critic...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/03/08/wonder-woman-lamont-polar-pioneer-robin-bell/
A new look inside the ice sheet validates predictions that it probably won’t melt as quickly as its neighbor—good news, since East Antarctica contains enough water to raise sea levels by 200 ...
In the first such continent-wide survey, scientists have found extensive drainages of meltwater flowing over parts of Antarctica’s ice during the brief summer. Many of the newly mapped drainage...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2017/04/19/water-is-streaming-across-antarctica/
If just the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt, it would raise global sea level by 6 meters. That’s more than a theoretical problem. West Antarctica is losing ice mass, and scientists are wo...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/11/24/exploring-beneath-earths-changing-ice-sheets/
After a surprisingly smooth crossing of the Southern Ocean, with favorable winds we arrived back in Hobart, Tasmania. The weather maps show that we just got ahead of another big storm system.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/05/01/smooth-sailing-back-to-tasmania/
In addition to understanding potential pathways for "warmer" circumpolar deep water to reach the ice shelf, we are also measuring what the structure and properties of the water column are and det...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/04/27/taking-a-4000-meter-deep-profile-of-antarctic-waters/