New research, published in Nature, led by scientists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences, and at the Geological Survey of Israel, provides evidence from Siberian caves suggesting that summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean plays an essential role in stabilising permafrost and its large store of carbon. More info on …
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The British Embassy in Moscow and Consulate General in Ekaterinburg now invite bids for projects commencing in the 2020-2021 financial year. For further details please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/call-for-bids-2020-2021
Dr Helen Johnson, Associate Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, Oxford, has co-authored a new international study that has found that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, a deep-ocean process that plays a key role in regulating Earth’s climate, is primarily driven by cooling waters west of Europe. Contrary to the prevailing …
Oxford University Polar Forum members Helen L. Johnson and Yves Plancherel publish with Camille Lique in Climate Dynamics. The Arctic Basin was found to become seasonally ice-free, when modelled in response to a 4-time increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. Read the abstract on our publications page.
Dr Marc Macias-Fauria and Professor Eric Post publish a new article on the direct and indirect effects of Arctic sea ice (ASI) on biological process on land and at sea.
Press release on reindeer mortality in Yamal, by Dr Marc Macias-Fauria, from the University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment. ‘Understanding the relationship between retreating sea ice and Arctic animal and plant life is essential if we are to predict how ecosystems will respond to rapid, ongoing environmental change. We are losing sea ice …
Read more “Reindeer deaths in the Arctic linked with retreating sea ice.”
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The Polar Regions have captured the curiosity – and dreams – of researchers and non-researchers alike for centuries due to their extreme conditions and the ideals of wilderness and remoteness they inspire. Yet at the present moment they belong in the common imagination of our societies due to their fast rates of climatic, environmental, and …
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