A team of four scientists led by AWI headed to Svalbard in July 2020 to uncover the secrets of the biogeochemical cycle of trace metals in the Arctic. Retreating glaciers in the Arctic uncover areas that have been previously hidden underneath ice sheets. These areas often consist of very reactive ...[Read more]
Subglacial melt channel seen by TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X
Radar images of ice shelves show at some locations astonishing features – elongated structures that extend for tens to hundreds of kilometers before they fade out. Where do they come from? Radar waves get to some extent scattered by the surface. A tilted surface is scattering the waves differently ...[Read more]
What caused the ring structure? On exploration …
Blog post by Graeme Eagles and the WEGAS team The WEGAS team has been very excited over the last few days that their work, and polar science in general, has garnered so much interest in the global media. The reason for this of course was the serendipitous discovery of a puzzling ring structure on ...[Read more]