Staff Members and Associates at the Scott Polar Research Institute are amongst a group of scientists who have made the first ever direct observations of ice shelf fracture due to meltwater loading in Antarctica! shar.es/agsDVR Dr Rebecca Dell Ian Willis Dr. Alison Banwell

Great Coastal Railway Journeys for #FossilFriday : Michael Portillo meets West Runton mammoth 🦣, oldest & largest #mammoth ever found in Britain, with Dr David M.G. Waterhouse .
#mammoth #fossil #fossil s #palaeontology #GreatCoastalRailwayJourneys
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The program is available on the iplayer - just watched it. Coastal #erosion , a bit of #glacial history and a giant fossil #mammoth , all in the first 7 minutes. Great television for anyone with any interest in #geology

Enjoyed taking a second look at Polly Townsend's #Antarctica art yesterday Scott Polar Research Institute Friends of SPRI Brad Borkan plus a quick visit to the Royal Academy Arts #Artist #ClimateCrisis

Our Polar Museum Curator, Dr David M.G. Waterhouse will be on TV tomorrow (2 May '24), BBC Two 6.30pm: 'Great Coastal Railway Journeys'.
Find out more about life in Britain during the interglacials of the Ice Age! 🦣
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#fossils #railway #iceage #mammoth

Station W, on Detaille Island in the Antarctic peninsula, was abandoned with a degree of urgency in 1959.
Here's a quick preview of footage taken when I was left alone inside the base in Feb '24, gathering material on my residency with Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute

Some highlights from Monday's locomotive naming event with GWR, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the grandchildren of Scott of the Antarctic, and the Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute. A truly fantastic occasion, followed by a reception at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

Help digitise the Cambridge University Herbarium 🌿
Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) is home to over 1.1m plant specimens collected over 300+ years. The team is looking for online volunteers to transcribe specimen labels & make them accessible to biodiversity researchers.
Join in: bit.ly/44e2UqB

On Monday, we were joined by the grandchildren of Great Westerner Captain Robert Falcon Scott in dedicating an Intercity Express Train named after the intrepid explorer back in 2018, alongside the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) and legendary explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.…

Well, thank goodness for that! The server is back up and running and our shop till is working again!
This is the best we could manage without access to a printer whilst the shop was closed!👇😆

Are your lenses in need of a clean? Well, look no further than the Polar Museum Shop! Erebus & Terror and Tealin's Worst Journey Graphic Novel 'Ice Grotto' lens cloths now in store.

Final conference presentation of my PhD done ☑️ how time flies..

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekP

P is for 'Ponko', the Penguin🐧 & Polar Museum!

'Ponko' was designed from Herbert Ponting's photographic studies of penguins taken during Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition from 1910-12.

Scott Polar Research Institute, #Cambridge .

It is the final day in Vienna for our researchers at SPRI. EGU has been incredibly productive for all of us, particularly final year PhD student Karla Boxall (supervised by Ian Willis and Frazer Christie) who presented her work on Seasonality in Grounded Ice Flow yesterday!

Our Polar Museum Curator Dr David M.G. Waterhouse just can't help talking about polar animals! What a wonderful polar bear from Norwich Castle in his talk with Kathy Moore at this year's NatSCA conference at Oxford University Museum of Natural History!🐻‍❄️🦭