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New Life Forms Beneath the Denman Glacier
This delicate sea butterfly was nicknamed “Clio” by scientists, in reference to its scientific name Clio pyramidata. (Photo:…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AAD #AustralianAntarcticDivision #CA #Canada #DenmanCanyon #DenmanGlacier #NASA #QueenMaryLand #RSVNuyina #SeaButterfly #ShackletonIceShelf
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/542236/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/245407/ Scientists make stunning discovery after lost probe emerges from ocean depths: ‘There’s no going back’ #Antarctica #DenmanGlacier #EasternAntarctica #Éire #IceShelves #IE #Ireland #MeltingGlaciers #OceanFloat #OceanMeasurements #Science #Scientists #TottenGlacier
Sea pigs, icefish and trilobites: #Antarctica’s mysterious marine life – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/may/08/antarctica-marine-life-denman-glacier-rsv-nuyina-in-pictures
"True #trilobites went #extinct more than 250m years ago, but the #SouthernOcean is home to a living lookalike: Ceratoserolis trilobitoides. They have a segmented, armoured exoskeleton, which helps protect them from predators... after a marine science voyage, a team aboard #Australia’s icebreaker #Nuyina has collected some remarkable species from the waters around the #DenmanGlacier"
"Why is a remote #glacier in #Antarctica that contains enough water to raise global sea levels by 1.5 metres melting twice as fast on one side as the other?
Thompson said the ice shelves act “like dams by holding back the flow of ice from the Antarctic continent into the ocean”, and the researchers wanted to understand their structure and stability."
https://www.watoday.com.au/environment/climate-change/the-antarctic-glacier-that-could-raise-sea-levels-by-1-5m-20250117-p5l58b.html
#DenmanGlacier
#Antarctica's #DenmanGlacier is one of the most remote places on Earth. This is what it's like to work there https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-04/east-antarctica-denman-glacier-melting-australian-climate-change/103353980
"Underneath the #glacier lies what #scientists think may be the deepest canyon on Earth, plunging around 3.5km below sea level. And the valley may contain so much ice that if it melts, it could raise sea levels by 1.5 metres."
To continue on the #Antarctica theme with a quite specific example, the #Shackleton ice shelf which includes the deep #DenmanGlacier trough appears to be experiencing acceleration + enhanced rifting based on 60(!) Years of observations, this is not good news for #SeaLevelRise
New paper by Thompson et al 2023
"Glaciological history and structural evolution of the Shackleton Ice Shelf system, East Antarctica, over the past 60 years"