SWAIS2C’s third season is underway

It’s all go for our 2025/26 season! The Antarctica New Zealand traverse arrived at Crary Ice Rise (CIR; drill site 5072_2) on Friday 21 November, after a 13-day, 1100km journey over across the Ross Ice Shelf. The convoy of PistenBully polar vehicles towed equipment and supplies for the season, including 27-30 tonnes of drilling and science equipment, and 3.5 tonnes of food.

Response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) to projected warming remains a significant uncertainty in sea level rise projections. SWAIS2C focus on understanding past and current drivers, mechanisms and feedbacks that influence retreat of ice sheets, to reduce uncertainty in numerical model projections of future changes.

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