Ruth MottramSep 1, 2025

Today is house meeting day for us at DMI as we find out where the state's budget cuts will land and who will be affected (i.e. made redundant).

Coincidentally, one of our #Ukraine #AntarcticScience centre colleagues has just sent us a draft deliverable report to review.

They apologise for lack of polish (it's actually really good! And very interesting science looking at climate change impacts in Antarctica) and they appended this photo of their apartment block after a visit by a Russian drone last week.

And suddenly, Danish state budget cuts seem much less worse...

And now I am going to find someone to swear at.

Ruth Mottram Mar 6, 2025
Absolutely brilliant to see all #AntarcticScience going on in Denmark at #DASS2025 today. We're a tiny country, not even in Antarctic Treaty, but 40+ researchers came to @dmidk.bsky.social to talk airborne radar, ice core drilling, ice sheet models, atmospheric rivers, phytoplankton + satellites
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Ruth MottramMar 6, 2025

Absolutely brilliant to see all the cool #AntarcticScience going on in Denmark at the #DASS2025 today. We're a tiny country, and not even signatories to the Antarctic Treaty, but we mustered 40+ researchers to talk about everything from airborne radar and ice core drilling to high resolution atmospheric modelling and remote sensing from 1930s aerial photos and machine learning techniques. Some seriously cutting edge research on coupled ice sheet modelling and atmospheric rivers too.
Good to have an official introduction to #AntarcticaInsync my thanks to @AlexHaumann!
May blog it, but slightly overwhelmed by *so much information* right now...

@antarctica #Antarctic

formuchdeliberationApr 16, 2024
Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels... #climatechange #antarctica #antarcticiceshelves #climate #oceancurrents #sealevelrise #icemelting #antarcticawarming #geography #polarregions #ClimateCrisis #sealevels #IceShelves #antarcticsea #globalwarming #antarcticmelting #antarcticscience https://scitechdaily.com/beneath-the-ice-hidden-currents-driving-antarcticas-rapid-melt/
Beneath the Ice: Hidden Currents Driving Antarctica’s Rapid Melt

Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels. A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that the interplay between meandering ocean currents and the ocean floor induces upwelling velocity,

SciTechDaily
formuchdeliberationApr 1, 2024
Largest ice shelf in Antarctica lurches forward once or twice each day... #antarctica #iceshelf #rossiceshelf #EarthScience #environment #globalwarming #climate #climatechange #icequake #glaciers #antarcticscience #geography https://phys.org/news/2024-03-largest-ice-shelf-antarctica-lurches.html
Largest ice shelf in Antarctica lurches forward once or twice each day

In Antarctica, heavy glaciers are always on the move. Conveyor belts of ice, known as ice streams, are the corridors of faster flow that carry most of the vast glaciers' ice and sediment debris out toward the ocean.

Phys.org
Ruth MottramMar 7, 2024
Off to DTU today to talk with the Danish #AntarcticScience community at our annual seminar. Always exciting to see what others are working on, it's a tiny group compared to #Greenland (though includes many of the same people!), but exciting to see we're getting some real momentum when it comes to different types of #Science... #DASS24
Ruth MottramSep 13, 2023

Apropos this piece on #Ukraine, and #AntarcticScience - the task has been massively simplified by the existence of #DeepL - the translation from Ukrainian to English/Danish seems to work quite well..

We're definitely at the stage where machine translation actually *works*

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/111053732950256618

Ruth Mottram (@[email protected])

Interesting piece on #Ukraine's #AntarcticScience programme, which is feeling the strains of war. I've been working with Ukrainian polar scientists in @PolarRES - an #EU #HorizonEU project. Now currently in @OceanIceEU we are writing an additional proposal to bring in more Ukrainian #Antarctic scientists, but EU budgets can't + won't cover infrastructure like research ships and station upgrades. That might be a problem in future. Ht @[email protected] https://sciencemastodon.com/@alexwitze/111053142638796817

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Ruth MottramSep 12, 2023

Interesting piece on #Ukraine's #AntarcticScience programme, which is feeling the strains of war. I've been working with Ukrainian polar scientists in @PolarRES - an #EU #HorizonEU project. Now currently in @OceanIceEU we are writing an additional proposal to bring in more Ukrainian #Antarctic scientists, but EU budgets can't + won't cover infrastructure like research ships and station upgrades.

That might be a problem in future.

Ht @alexwitze

https://sciencemastodon.com/@alexwitze/111053142638796817

Alexandra Witze (@[email protected])

How Russia's war in Ukraine is disrupting #Antarctic science. By Layal Liverpool for Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02764-6

Science Mastodon
Sophia VolzkeFeb 6, 2023
Took a leap of faith and emailed fellow researchers / colleagues of colleagues. Next minute: I am in Chizé hosting a live seminar about my research! Absolutely loved exploring CNRS - CEBC in France. So here’s to #scicomm and #collaboration ! Thanks @TimotheeBonnet & co! #MarinePredators #AntarcticScience #phdlife
Ruth MottramJan 23, 2023

A brief introduction to Danish #AntarcticScience

#DkViden

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2023/01/23/danish-antarctic-science/

Danish Antarctic Science

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