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Karthaus Summer School covering glacier and ice sheet dynamics, for PhD students in September 2017.

APPLICATIONS DUE: Sunday 7th May 2017

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Link an overview of a summer school at UNIS, for PhD and postdocs, concerning the Arctic Ocean and the marginal ice zone.

APPLICATIONS DUE: Monday 8th May 2017

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NASA just snapped the first photos of a mysterious crack in one of Greenland’s largest glaciers

A scientist tweeted satellite photos of a crack in a famous glacier. Pretty soon, NASA had taken its picture.

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Unique Canadian ice core collection suffers catastrophic meltdown

Freezer failure destroys 12.8% of collection

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List of polar and alpine related events occurring in 2017, compiled by the Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research (AAAR) journal.

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APECS are hosting a conference to kick-start Polar Week on Monday 20th March. The conference will be held online and focus on alternative solutions to undertaking and communicating polar research. Registration to the sessions and information on the topics to be discussed can be found through the link above - sessions are limited to 100 participants so be quick if you want to get involved.

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If you want to see how the sea ice extent has changed over the years and place the latest figures in context, this interactive graph from NSIDC is a great tool. Data is available for both the Arctic and Antarctic, across the full year and stretching all the way back to 1979.

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Check out the schedule for the CryoSat conference at the end of March, in Banff, Canada. There’s a lot of big names giving talks and presenting their research across some very interesting looking topics.

Today’s the last day to sign up and confirm your place there.