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Imaggeo on Mondays: Heavy machinery 

How do you get heavy machinery, such as a drill spool onto an ice sheet? This week’s imaggeo on Mondays’ photography captures the freighting of components of a hot water drill to directly access and observe the physical and geothermal properties at the ice-bed interface. In the image, SAFIRE principal investigator Bryn Hubbard and post-doc Sam Doyle help fly in the drill spool at the start of the Summer 2014 field campaign on Store Glacier, Western Greenland. Freighting several [...]

Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica 

USGS, in cooperation with the British Antarctic Survey, the Scott Polar Research Institute, and the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie have released: “Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica:

Freeze Frame archive 

A new JISC-funded online resource has been launched (http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk) that makes a host of photographic images available covering Polar exploration from 1845-1982. The resources are held in a collection by the Cambridge University Scott Polar Research Institute and include biographies, expedition accounts and commentaries. More than 20,000 images are available through galleries