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icy-pete.bsky.social
Ice cores & climate science. Antarctic science. Assistant Prof U Minnesota. Dad.
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

Let’s not lose all of this. Defend our investments in publicly-funded science. We love the National Science Foundation & want to keep doing world-leading science in Antarctica and elsewhere. Thanks to all who have worked, do work, and will work at NSF.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Snow blowing off the front of Dotson Ice Shelf, Antarctica. This timeline cleanse brought to you by US National Science Foundation and Korea Polar Research Institute funded research to understand past climate history in changing Antarctic coastal regions.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

submitted 23 days ago • 69 comments

NSF has received an email from its director to ignore the federal judge’s stay of Trump’s order and implement the spending pause. Note that the director does not take the limited interpretation the admin pushed publicly but instead takes the broad interpretation the admin pushed privately.

submitted 25 days ago • 32 comments

1 year ago this month: had the pleasure of achieving a personal dream, w/ this international team supported by Korea Polar Research Institute & US NSF. Two 150m ice cores from the Pine Island Bay region of #Antarctica; 1st of their kind to reveal 150 year climate history in this crucial region. 🙏❄️

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

🎉🎉🎉 Woo hoo! 🎉🎉🎉 Amazing feat by the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice team! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Smashing the 800,000 year record for a continuous ice core by a country mile back to 1.2 million years ago.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

You can map iceberg shape (below the water) from airplanes. Oooohlala. From Lilly Hinkley of College of Wooster at #AGU24

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

How does one teach “problem solving for environmental science” and “intro to weather and climate” next semester with *gesticulates wildly* ALL THIS going on? Asking for a friend…

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Icebreaker USCGC Storis (a storied, retired CG icebreaker name) appears to be new name of Aiviq, recently purchased by US Coast Guard for Arctic duties based in Juneau, AK. Photo via @ jpberlinger on X. gcaptain.com/u-s-coast-gu...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star underway to complete its annual task: Operation Deep Freeze icebreaking to resupply McMurdo Station, Antarctica and support NSF science and peaceful activities across the icy continent!

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

This week glaciologists Peter Neff & Matthew Siegfried join @farsouthhistory.bsky.social and me to talk Antarctic exploration, climate change, and Kurt Freaking Russell. Just in time for #WHA2024 #SHA2024. THE THING drops NOW on Historians At The Movies Podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments

Hello. I guess I’ll post about icy science and ice core climate science here.

submitted 93 days ago • 6 comments