Glacial scientist & map nerd. Based in Tromsø, Arctic Norway ⛷️
Interested in research questions related to the reconstruction of ice sheets during past ice ages and how they impacted their environment.
Henry Patton
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"Walruses have been officially protected in Norway since the 1950s, after they were hunted to near extinction. That protection has boosted their numbers, and apparently provided a new source of fatty food for polar bears."
Half of the CO₂ released by human activities, such as through burning fossil fuels, enters the atmosphere... This impacts the climate all over the planet, including the Arctic.
🌨🎉 Snow has arrived back in #Tromsø! The last time any snow was recorded was 146 days ago on May 24th.
🌨 Following ~2 cm of fresh snowfall in the last ~24hrs, the snow in #Tromsø is currently 1.1 cm deep. It has snowed once on this date since 2015, with 1 cm falling in 2020.
A new island was just discovered in Antarctica. And it definitely isn't an iceberg.
The 'dirty iceberg' spotted by RV Polarstern in the Weddell Sea turned out to be a rocky island 130 metres long & 50 metres wide. The naming process is underway.
Our latest newsletter went out just before Christmas...here's what you need to know:
Are you heading to NGWM 2026 in Turku next week?
🍺🍔 Join us for a social after the NGWM icebreaker (Jan 13th) at Panimoravintola Koulu pub from 20.00 in the "History classroom".
Northern Norway will feel the consequences - Tromsø's ski season is projected to last only one month by the end of the century, down from 3.5 months currently.
This is cool, 6 million year old ice from Antartica with inferred temperature ~12°C warmer than the late Pleistocene. No CO2 level yet! (That will be highly anticipated!)
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🧵 MURDER AT THE NORTH POLE
The debate over who really first reached the North Pole became a bitter public dispute in the early 1900s.
Crocker Land was perhaps the key: sighted by Robert E. Peary but undetected by his rival Frederick Cook, could its discovery prove who really traversed the Arctic?
While en route to the North Pole on a modern ice-going vessel, glaciologist Henry Patton reveals some of the crazy mapping mistakes and theories of what people used to believe lay hidden in this icy kingdom.
📽️ Editing by @media.elizaveta.no
American interests in controlling Greenland are nothing new.
A century ago the famous American Arctic explorer Robert E Peary fully supported the purchase of Greenland from Denmark, citing national security concerns. A 🧵
