RMS awards presented to two Department members!
03 July 2024
The Royal Microscopical Society Science Sectiona have announced the winners of their awards for 2025 and we are delighted to see that Professors Sohini Kar-Narayan and Emilie Ringe has both been selected as award-winners.
The RMS recognises outstanding achievements in microscopy, imaging...
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Twice as much water on Antarctica’s ice shelves than previously thought
Dr Rebecca Dell, with Prof. Ian Willis and Prof. Neil Arnold, from the Scott Polar Research Institute, have used machine learning to analyse hundreds of satellite images to map lakes and slush across 57 of Antarctica's largest ice shelves between 2013 and 2021. Their work is published in Nature Geoscience. Whereas previous work had only mapped lakes, they show that including slush doubles the ice shelf area covered by melt water in mid-summer. As the weight of water on ice shelves has the potential to fracture them, causing their collapse, the work has important implications for future sea level rise, as ice shelf loss causes Antarctica's massive glaciers to flow more rapidly from land to sea. The work is done together with Dr Alison Banwell, U. Colorado, Boulder, and PhD student Sophie de Roda Husman, Delft University of Technology.
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Dr Martin Mays RIP
Dr Martin Mays at a Downing alumni event in 2013, courtesy Downing College
Jun 27 2024We are sad to share the news that our colleague Martin Mays died on Sunday 23 June 2024.
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Memorial Symposium for Jim Staunton
Jim Staunton in thoughtful mood at the Royal Society, all photos courtesy Alison HIll
Jun 26 2024A symposium is being held in memory of Professor Jim Staunton on Friday 20 September 2024 here in the department. Register here to attend.
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