Earth and Planetary Scientist @WHOI and @NASA. Animal lover. Wannabe astronaut. I do all my own stunts. Human companion of @DreaminDog.
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Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
Antarctic ice plays a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate, global sea levels, ocean circulation, and planetary reflectivity.
Learn more in a new #ScienceReview: scim.ag/42FMQPN
Antarctica’s hidden mysteries highlighted by Helen Fricker and others, out today!
@Scripps_Polar @AusAntarctic @WHOI @UMassAmherst
A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces.
Learn more: scim.ag/3WMC3iZ
ALT Climate change in the polar regions of our warming world is threatening to transform many of its features, such as this icy tableau in the Fish Islands off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. There is still much to learn about these places before we know better what those changes may be.
*Earth at 1.5 degrees warming: How vulnerable is Antarctica?*
New dialogue led by @helenafricker and @BryonyFreer from @Scripps_Polar and Ben Galton-Fenzi from @Ant_Partnership
(And @WHOI !)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
An ice shelf disintegrates in East Antarctica! New paper out today in @NatureGeosci ❄️
with @jdmillstein @BertieMiles1990 Sue Cook @alexfraser Andreas Colliander @drsharkbait @highlatitude Susheel Adusumilli Chance Roberts and @helenafricker
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
Accompanied by a wonderful summary piece by Karen Alley!
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
The unprecedented retreat (read: one of the fastest retreats on record!) of Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica in 2022-2023 highlighted in new paper!
Great work by @eapsMIT @WHOI MIT-WHOI Joint Program Ph.D. student Bailey Fluegel!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
🚀@NASA astronaut @lunarloral brought some real star power to students in #FalmouthMA this week! The former #WHOI engineer shared her journey from working on #innerspace vehicles like #Alvin to achieving her #childhooddream with a recent mission aboard @Space_Station!
Go Clipper! History in the making!
#EuropaClipper #NASA #KennedySpaceCenter #Europa #SpaceExploration
🚀It’s launch day for #EuropaClipper!
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy is set to lift off from @NASAKennedy at 12:06pm EDT. The goal is to learn if there are places below the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon that could support life.
Here are 8 things to know!
▶ go.nasa.gov/3MOPAB3
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
The selections for the NASA PSIE (Precursor Science Investigations for Europa) are posted!
Our proposal titled "Chaos Theory: Formation and Evolution of Chaos Terrain, and Prospects for Probing Interior Activity" was selected!
I am so proud of our team lead by @SarahFagents!
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
Who's excited for Europa Clipper?! (the answer is me; it's me that's excited)
Get up to date with everything you need to know about the mission and the many mysteries of Europa with my new piece for @NatGeo
nationalgeographic.com/scien…
Thanks for this amazing piece @esa_cryosat @esa 🧊❄️
And perhaps after all, “…rock and roll will save the world.” — Pete Townshend
In the land of ice and snow...
...and volcanoes 🌋🌋🌋
#Cryo2ice is here 🛰️🛰️
Get ready for a week of
🧊 ice sheets and ice shelves
🏔️ mountain glaciers
🌊 oceans
❄️ snow and sea ice
🏞️ inland waters
🔮 & a CRISTAL clear future
CryoSat 🤝 ICESat-2
@ESA_EO🤝@NASAEarth
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
A brilliant week of science, brought to us by @NASA and @esa at the gorgeous waterfront venue of the Harpa Centre here in Reykjavik. We will be bringing you even more highlights from the conference over the next week…
What a venue! What an event!
#Cryo2ice is almost over, but not quite yet.
Time now to summarise this incredible "family reunion" of our milk and cookies, CryoSat and ICESat-2.
We're about to hear from all our chairs, before a wrap up from @tparrine & @Thorsten_Markus
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
In the land of ice and snow...
...and volcanoes 🌋🌋🌋
#Cryo2ice is here 🛰️🛰️
Get ready for a week of
🧊 ice sheets and ice shelves
🏔️ mountain glaciers
🌊 oceans
❄️ snow and sea ice
🏞️ inland waters
🔮 & a CRISTAL clear future
CryoSat 🤝 ICESat-2
@ESA_EO🤝@NASAEarth
Exciting times @WHOI thanks to the W. M. Keck Foundation! Hoping this project enables new discoveries under #Antarctica's ice shelves through technology development and collaboration!
ecomagazine.com/news/researc…
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
In 1968, during Apollo 8, Bill Anders offered to humanity among the deepest of gifts an astronaut can give. He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves. He embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration. We will miss him.
ALT On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called “Earthrise.” As the spacecraft was in the process of rotating, Anders took this iconic picture showing Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon. In 2018, the International Astronomical Union commemorated the event by naming a 25 mile diameter crater “Anders’ Earthrise.” Image credit: NASA
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
Want to know all about icebergs? Of course you do. With @CapComCatWalk @ojmarsh @jemmawadham and @NASA_ICE Christopher Shuman.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5x…
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
Here's our latest Inquiry, @williamcrawley speaks to expert witnesses @CapComCatWalk from @WHOI, @ojmarsh from @BAS_News, Professor Jemma Wadham from @iC3_COE and Professor Christopher Shuman from @NASAGoddard
The world's biggest iceberg is made up of a trillion tonnes of frozen pure water and is more than twice the size of
Greater London.
It's slowly moving towards the Southern Ocean and having a huge impact on the seas around it
bbc.in/455Y7YY
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
The world's biggest iceberg is made up of a trillion tonnes of frozen pure water and is more than twice the size of
Greater London.
It's slowly moving towards the Southern Ocean and having a huge impact on the seas around it
bbc.in/455Y7YY
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
Please tell me we're going to call it the #HalloweenBerg. Using the normal nomenclature (#A83) is so dull. This is the third large berg to come off the Brunt in three years. The decision of @BAS_News to move Halley base in 2016/17 looks ever smarter. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c033…
Catherine Colello Walker retweeted
It's done. The last great chunk of #MolarBerg (aka D28a), the biggest block of ice to come of the Amery Ice Shelf in 50 years, let go big style this week. Hydrofracturing shattered the remnant berg virtually overnight. 52S; 22W on 16/5/24. #NASA #Worldview
ALT Molar Berg / D28a on 16/5/2024