Three Earth and Environment at Leeds researchers, Dr Will Homoky, Alastair Lough and Chiara Krewer, recently returned from a two-month expedition to the Antarctic to examine the role the cold polar seas play in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere 🌊

Here’s a short video charting their experience 👇

We made many first of their kind measurements on our #AntarcticPICCOLO expedition. Thanks for welcoming me back to share stories on the red sofa Amanda Harper BBC
You can catch us on iPlayer for a few hours only, scroll to 14:45:
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We want to sample the environment underneath sea ice, so we are searching for a new office space this morning..
#AntarcticPICCOLO University of Leeds UEA School of Environmental Sciences Plymouth Marine Lab University of St Andrews University of Plymouth British Antarctic Survey 🐧

First ever Weddell seal tagged with a CTD including oxygen sensor?
Slowly heading further south and hopefully picking up more seals.

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@Roses_ocean Plymouth Marine Lab University of St Andrews British Antarctic Survey 🐧 SMRU
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As night fell, calm pools glowed pink between the ice, and the moon rose.
#AntarcticPICCOLO University of Leeds UEA School of Environmental Sciences Plymouth Marine Lab University of Plymouth University of St Andrews British Antarctic Survey 🐧

We picked our path carefully between ice, orcas 🐋 and seals 🦭 on yesterday’s journey through The Gullet of the West Antarctic Peninsula #AntarcticPICCOLO
University of Leeds UEA School of Environmental Sciences Plymouth Marine Lab University of St Andrews British Antarctic Survey 🐧 University of Plymouth

A dawn blizzard through Lemaire Channel and we’ve just crossed the line of the Antarctic Polar Circle! Oceanographer’s love stamp-collecting their lats & longs. This is 66.7S 🤩
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#Moonlight #Starlight #Sublight #smartexccz

Sun down and sun up CTDs.
Breaking frazil ice at dawn with trace metal buddies. Great end to an intense period of work at shelf edge.
Alastair Lough Chiara Krewer Angie Milne Simon Ussher Neil Wyatt
University of Leeds University of Plymouth #AntarcticPICCOLO GEOTRACES

A few pics from today and an emperor penguin from yesterday. Light winds just now, lot of snow overnight (as can be seen on the recently formed grease ice)

Snow day today mean’t clearing the decks to start our days work on #AntarcticPICCOLO ⁦British Antarctic Survey 🐧⁩ ⁦UEA School of Environmental Sciences⁩ ⁦Faculty of Environment - University of Leeds⁩ ⁦University of Leeds⁩

The call for new SCOR Working Group proposals is now open! Submit a proposal by 17 May.

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Are you interested in palaeoclimate over geological timescales? If so, we have an open post-doc Oxford Earth Sciences on Natural Environment Research Council project, with me Dan Lunt Sebastian Steinig & others Bridge_Bristol

Please RT! Deadline Feb 20th.

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A mirror-lake morning in the Weddell Sea. ‘MAMMOTH’ net slowly sieve and lift up the organic carbon from beneath us.
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 Plymouth Marine Lab UEA School of Environmental Sciences University of Leeds University of Plymouth University of St Andrews

Wow... take a look at these photos and videos from the #AntarcticPICCOLO scientific expedition, sent in by the incredible crewmates onboard the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough : pml.ac.uk/News/PICCOLO-p…

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 SMRU UEA

Aids to ice navigation.....the sky. Where the sky is darker indicates water below, known as water sky. Where the sky is bright white, that is ice reflecting from the clouds and is called ice blink. This is a useful way to assist with ice navigation