Research
A research team involving scientists at Lancaster University have been using satellites to track the Cadman Glacier, on the west Antarctic peninsula, to see how climate change is impacting the decline of the glaciers. By analysing historic satellite data, the scientists believe warmer ocean waters gradually thinned the glacier’s ice shelf from the early 2000s and possibly since the 1970s.
From the perils of icebergs and hurricanes to the power of space weather and the devastation of forest fires, Lancaster University researchers have been working for decades to detect and anticipate shifts in the natural world. Through techniques such as remote sensors, mathematical skills and data science, our scientists are learning more about changes taking place in some of the most beautiful and remote places on the planet.
