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Antarctica InSync Implementation Workshop

November 10 - November 13
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

The Antarctica InSync Implementation Workshop 2026 will bring together the international polar research community to advance the implementation of Antarctica InSync, a collaborative initiative designed to strengthen coordinated, multidisciplinary observations across Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Hosted at ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, the four-day workshop will focus on turning the scientific vision of Antarctica InSync into …

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Sentinel-1 captures major ice loss from Greenland glacier

A dramatic reminder of how quickly polar landscapes can change: on 4 August, a 76 km² section of the floating ice tongue of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier broke away, forming a tabular iceberg roughly the size of Manhattan. Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured the glacier’s deterioration and fracture development in the days and months leading up to the …

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Career opportunities for Internal Research Fellow in Earth System Science

An Internal Research Fellow (PostDoc) opportunity is currently open for applicants who have recently completed, or are close to completing, a PhD in physics, engineering, Earth system or climate science, with research experience and peer-reviewed publications in relevant fields. During this two-year fellowship, you will contribute to cutting-edge Earth observation research within ESA’s Earth System …

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“Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry” – Fringe 2026

June 15 @ 08:00 - June 19 @ 13:30 UTC+2
Jagiellonian University of Kraków, ul. Krupnicza 33, 31-123 Kraków, ul. Krupnicza 33, 31-123
Krakow, Poland

Background The European Space Agency is organising together with the National Geological Institute and Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the 13th International workshop on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry” – Fringe 2026. The workshop is taking place at the Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, from 15 to 19 …

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Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

Satellites are transforming the monitoring of freshwater flows into the Arctic Ocean, a critical but poorly observed component of the climate system. Vast amounts of freshwater from rivers, melting ice and runoff influence ocean salinity, sea-ice formation and global circulation, yet ground-based measurements in the region are declining and remain incomplete. By using Earth observation …

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The Antarctica InSync Science Planning Workshop |ESA ESRIN 03-06 November 2025

November 3, 2025 - November 6, 2025
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Background The Antarctica InSync Science Planning Workshop will be hosted by ESA at ESRIN, Frascati (Italy), from 3rd to 6th November 2025. Antarctica InSync is a globally coordinated scientific initiative established to address the pan-Antarctic scale of environmental change currently unfolding across the Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean. The initiative is grounded in an …

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85 new subglacial lakes detected below Antarctica

Using over a decade of data from ESA’s CryoSat satellite, scientists have identified 85 previously unknown active subglacial lakes beneath Antarctica, bringing the total to 231. These lakes, hidden several kilometres below the surface, periodically fill and drain—movements detected through subtle ice surface height changes measured by CryoSat’s radar altimeter. The discovery also adds 12 …

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5D Antarctica

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT (GB)

5D Antarctica aims to produce a suite of state-of-the-art Earth Observation datasets to characterise how the coastal ice sheet and ice shelves in Antarctica have changed over the last decades, and to make use of these datasets to investigate the physical processes driving this evolution. This will provide the first integrated assessment of ice dynamic …

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Greenland subglacial flood bursts through ice sheet surface

 A new study published in Nature Geoscience reports the first documented case of a subglacial lake draining explosively through Greenland’s ice sheet, blasting a roughly 2 km² area and cutting a 85 m‑deep crater in July-August 2014. The researchers estimate the event released about 90 billion litres of meltwater bursting upward through nearly 85–90 m of ice. The flood …

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