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Dr Natasha Barlow has been awarded an ERC starting grant, for a project titled ‘Rates of Interglacial Sea-level Change, and Responses' (RISeR).

Unusual iceberg at Rothera Research Station, Antarctic Peninsula, by Professor Andrew Shepherd

Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3.0 mm) coming in the last five years alone.

Antarctica ramps up sea level rise

Monitoring Antarctica from space has revealed how its ice is being lost to the oceans, providing crucial insight into the continent’s response to a warming climate.

Figure 1: New digital elevation model of Antarctica derived from 6 years of CryoSat-2 altimetry.

A new map of Antarctica, available to download from today, is providing the most accurate three-dimensional view of the continent to date.

Dr Adam Booth will serve as a Co-Investigator of a collaborative research project Thwaites Interdisciplinary Margin Evolution (TIME) involving eleven US and UK scientists.