Our Local Science Partners are ready to tackle 80 meetings with their legislators today talking about the importance of science funding!

Last week I had the opportunity to advocate for science with the AGU Local Science Partners program! Here’s the Colorado power team after a successful day of meetings with our legislative offices 💥 thanks AGU Science Policy! Tiffany Napier, PhD Christine A. Shields

Excited to be here in the land of floating helicopters to study Helheim Glacier! 🚁

I’m absolutely thrilled to share that my NASA #FINESST proposal was selected for funding! Excited to continue researching iceberg calving at Helheim Glacier’s ice cliff 🧊🎉 NASA Earth ARCHIVED - NASA Ice

#Cryosphere scientists - please consider signing and sharing this open letter ahead of COP28 UAE ! We really shouldn't have to spell this out to #policymakers by now, but unfortunately the message still isn't getting through. #ClimateActionNow 🇦🇶🏔️❄️🌨️🐻‍❄️🐧🌏

AGU (American Geophysical Union) (Antarctic Geophysical Union) comes to McMurdo station! 🧑🏻‍🔬 An afternoon full of inspiring research from geoscientists, covering glaciers🧊, oceans🌊, new technology🛠️, and remote sensing📡

Hello from Antarctica! 🇦🇶 I’ve spent the past several weeks at McMurdo on my way to Thwaites, as part of the GHOST team! We’ll be camping on the glacier and using different types of geophysics to look into the ice and the earth below. See you soon, Thwaites! International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration

We almost made it to WAIS Divide today, but the plane couldn’t land due to a storm and low visibility! Trying again soon 🤞🏻

“Adaptive foraging along dry-season waterholes would have transformed seasonal rivers into ‘blue highway’ corridors, potentially facilitating an out-of-Africa dispersal and suggesting that the event was not restricted to times of humid climates” nature.com/articles/s4158…

A new trick for slowing deforestation might just be the oldest one in the book: reverence. Some 35,000 churches of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church steward country’s last remaining old-growth forests, which appear as circular oases scattered throughout the northern region.

Many people think marrying a US citizen is enough to "fix the papers" of undocumented immigrants. It's not, really. For those who came across the border, the path to a green card through marrying a US citizen may require leaving the country and their loved one for 10 years. 🧵

Back to Olduvai Gorge Tanzania

I read this while deployed to Antarctica on my way to Thwaites and would definitely recommend it! Also so cool to see some International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration scientists I know as characters in a book 🇦🇶

It’s been a year since I got to meet my favorite glacier in person for the first time ❄️ Helheim Glacier, Greenland 🇬🇱 Breathtaking is an understatement Last photo credit to Adam LeWinter

Ph.D. student Mahsa Bahrami has been awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant to fund her research on meltwater lakes at the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet! 🗞️: bit.ly/3yV26M8

Its an exciting week for the ITGC as the team gathers at British Antarctic Survey 🐧 in Cambridge to discuss what we've learned about the mighty Thwaites over the past few years - so a team photo was obligatory!

A successful day meeting with legislative offices to advocate for science on Capitol Hill!