Take a look at these whale remains. They belong to a creature that once got stranded on a beach and couldn’t make it back to the sea. Except this beach is now several hundred meters inland and dozens of meters above sea level. How is that possible? And why does it matter? New paper alert! 🙂
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Hello Svalbard! Working hard near the Czech station Nostoc in Petuniabukta.
Here are some amazing pictures from our teammember Jan Kavan. He is doing some UAV surveying.
Left picture: Hørbyebreen outwash plain
Right picture: Ragnarbreen and its proglacial lake dammed by the LIA moraine
New research from our Geo group! 👇
Ferdinand Glacier (Svalbard)
1908 | 2018
Svalbard is the most rapidly warming place on Earth! 🔥
We are going back there to early Holocene glacier levels BUT
without the same forcings! ☀️ 🌍
We wouldn't be witnessing this colapse today without human emissions. 🏭
journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/...
Centre for Polar Ecology
Centre for Polar Ecology
Centre for Polar Ecology
Martin Lulak
New book out soon! 📖 (Unfortunately only in Czech)
Planet of Melting Ice by Zdeněk Zvonek brings together 19 interviews with scientists from all sorts of fields — from biology to geology to social science — all united by one thing: their work in the polar regions. 🧊
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Martin Lulak
How can an ordinary clam (well, actually more than 1,600 of these shells) reveal what the fjords on Svalbard looked like thousands of years ago?
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