UKPN Wednesday Seminar: The Wurst Idea of All Time

This Wednesday the UK Polar Network welcomes Lisa Craw, who has been working on the 'Cryowurst', the successor of the less elongated 'Cryoegg'. It's an instrument that senses the movement of glaciers from the inside! The Cryowurst isn't just a wacky name - it gives fascinating insights and stories from within the surging glacier. Please join us online on Wednesday at 2pm GMT on Google Meet by registering at Eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1803106432879  

The Wurst idea of All Time: developing wireless instrumentation to study surging glaciers

Lisa Craw

Abstract: 

Glacier surges are one of the most difficult glaciological phenomena to study, not least because they tend to destroy instrumentation put in place to observe them. At Prifysgol Caerdydd/Cardiff University, we've been working to develop an instrument (the "cryowurst") that can capture the hydrology and dynamics of a surging glacier, and live to tell the tale. This is a work in progress, with plenty of mishaps along the way!

Lisa Craw is a research associate at Prifysgol Caerdydd (Cardiff University) working on novel instrumentation for investigating glacier and ice sheet dynamics. Her background is in structural geology, and her PhD focused on ice microstructure and rheology as well as numerical ice sheet modelling.

Register your attendance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1803106432879 

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Cryosphere PhD opportunities at the University of Edinburgh

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Dear UKPN,

 

Please see below for a large number of polar-related PhDs available at the University of Edinburgh for a September 2026 start. These are part of the E5 DTP and are available to UK and international students.

 

Best wishes,

Sian

 

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Reader in Marine Science

Deputy Head of Global Change Research Institute

School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh

 

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Dear Colleagues,

 

Please find below links to fully funded PhD projects to start in September 2026 offered within the Cryosphere Research Group (https://edinburghcryosphere.org/) and friends at the University of Edinburgh.

 

These studentships are available through the NERC-funded E5 Doctoral Training Partnership. Details on eligibility and instructions on how to apply can be found at https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/. Note the application deadline of 14 December 2025. If you are interested in a particular project, we encourage you to contact the primary supervisor.

 

Projects:

 

Has the Greenland ice sheet Reached peak Ice Discharge - HAGRID

Supervisors: Peter Nienow, Donald Slater, Encarni Medina-Lopez

https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1710

 

Investigating the Cycling and Bioavailability of Glacially Derived Metals in a Changing Arctic Ocean

Supervisors: James Watt, Peter Nienow, Bryan Spears, Sian Henley

https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1608

 

Glacier and Landscape Evolution of Antarctic Islands in a Warming Climate

Supervisors: Beatriz Recinos Rivas, Bertie Miles, Robert Bingham, Donald Slater

https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1672

 

When glaciers, icebergs and oceans collide: modelling Greenland’s spectacular glacial fjords

Supervisors: Donald Slater, Tom Cowton

https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1807

 

Assessing the role of extreme events in iceberg calving in Antarctica

Supervisors: Bertie Miles, Robert Bingham, Anna Crawford

https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1676

 

Ocean drivers and impacts of Antarctic sea ice variability

Supervisors: Channing Prend, Sebastiaan Swart, Sian Henley, Lois Baker

https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1797

 

Southern Ocean carbon uptake, cycling and export in a changing climate

Supervisors: Sian Henley, Lavenia Ratnarajah, Robyn Tuerena

https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1805

 

Headwater ephemeral channels as agents of postglacial landscape evolution in the Grampian Mountains, Scotland

Supervisors: Lizzie Orr, Stuart Grieve, Mikael Attal

https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1778

 

Remote Sensing of Antarctic Vegetation Change

Supervisors: Claudia Colesie, Matthew Davey, Peter Convey, Peter Fretwell, Jeffrey Kerby

https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1790

 

Donald Slater

NERC Independent Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh

Website | Google Scholar 

 

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IAPETUS PhD studentship at British Antarctic Survey

Dear all, 

 

We are currently advertising a PhD position at British Antarctic Survey (Dr Clara Manno, Dr Flo Atherden) and Durham University (Prof. Erin L. McClymont) on "Understanding Biological Responses to Arctic Sea-Ice Geoengineering climate interventions". 

The use of geoengineering as a tool to actively cool the Earth is seen as a potential approach to "buy time" to allow for global decarbonisation. Fragile polar ecosystems are critical to the global climate system, yet the potential ecological consequences of climate interventions at the poles are poorly understood. This studentship will be linked to a larger project, ECO-ICE, which will provide an independent impact assessment of climate interventions in the Arctic marine environment on the structure, functioning and resilience of pelagic ecosystems through laboratory experiments and computer modelling.

Full project details are available: https://iapetus.ac.uk/studentships/understanding-biological-responses-to-arctic-sea-ice-geoengineering-climate-intervention/

Deadline: 5th January 2025 at 12 midday (GMT).

Applying to an IAPETUS PhD: https://iapetus.ac.uk/how-to-apply/#How_to_Apply

Best wishes,

Flo

Dr Flo Atherden | She/Her | Ecological Biogeochemist| British Antarctic Survey

High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: flrden19@bas.ac.uk

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PhD project on Antarctic Snow Algae

Dear all, 

 

We are currently advertising a PhD position at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (Matt Davey), University of Edinburgh (Claudia Colesie) and the British Antarctic Survey (Peter Convey, Melody Clark) on “Antarctic snow algae – consequences of lipid accumulation on photosynthesis and survival”. Application and full details at the Edinburgh E5 site:  https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1780 and FAQ here: https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/applicant-support/frequently-asked-questions. Deadline 14^th Dec 2025.

 

All the best

 

Matt

 

 

 

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Dr. Matthew Davey

Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)

Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA

UK

 

Email: matt.davey@sams.ac.uk

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LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-matt-davey-2bb0b516b/

 

 

 

 

 

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PhD project on Antarctic vegetation change

Dear all, 

we are currently advertising a PhD position at the University of Edinburgh on Remote Sensing of Antarctic Vegetation Change: https://e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item=1790

Best wishes, 

Claudia

Dr. Claudia Colesie

Senior Lecturer in Physiological Plant Ecology

Webpage  |  Edinburgh Global Change Institute 

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PhD position in Leeds on Antarctic bioaerosols

Dear all, 

we are currently advertisting a PhD position at the University of Leeds on Antarctic bioaerosol and cloud formation: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/do-antarctic-bioaerosols-influence-clouds-and-climate-in-the-southern-ocean/?p187633

Best wishes, 

Floor

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Dr Floor van den Heuvel

Cloud Physicist

CloudSense Science Coordinator

Member-at-large UK Polar Network

Atmosphere, Ice and Climate team

British Antarctic Survey

High Cross, Madingly Road,

Cambridge CB3 0ET

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PhD position in marine & atmospheric science at the British Antarctic Survey

Dear all, 

we are currently looking for an enthusiastic individual ready to tackle the challenge of connecting particles produced by the Antarctic ocean microlayer with cloud formation: https://aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/vandenheuvel_bas_aries26/

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

Best wishes, 

Floor

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Cloud Physicist

CloudSense Science Coordinator

Member-at-large UK Polar Network

Atmosphere, Ice and Climate team

British Antarctic Survey

High Cross, Madingly Road,

Cambridge CB3 0ET

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Arctic Ocean seminar

A reminder about today's seminar…

The Arctic Ocean in the UN Ocean Decade (Chloe Nunn) 

📅 Tuesday 21st October 3-4pm BST (in your time zone)

📍Online seminar. Sign up and see more details on the Eventbrite page. 

If you have any requests for speakers/topics or would like to give a seminar yourself please don't hesitate to get in touch!

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Fully funded PhD project on West Antarctic ice-shelf melting (BAS, Cambridge)

Dear all,

We are advertising a new PhD project titled West Antarctic ice-shelf melting in a changing climate.

The project is part of the IGNITE DLA led by the University of Southampton, but will be based at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge.

Please direct potentially interested applicants towards the advertisement and project description here: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/west-antarctic-ice-shelf-melting-in-a-changing-climate/?p187794.

Any questions may be directed towards me (michai@bas.ac.uk).

Best wishes,

Michael Haigh

Michael Haigh (he/him)

Ice/Ocean Modeller

British Antarctic Survey

Email: michai@bas.ac.uk

 

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UK Arctic terrestrial science “strengths and priorities” workshop.

UK Arctic terrestrial science "strengths and priorities" workshop.

Online, 2nd, 4th and 9th December 2025, 12:30-15:00 each day. 

Registration deadline 31st October

This workshop is being held to discuss and then produce a prospectus document outlining the UK's "Strengths and Priorities" in Arctic terrestrial research. 

The workshop welcomes Arctic terrestrial scientists at any stage of their career who are based in the UK at the time of the workshop.  We welcome and encourage ECR participation.

The terrestrial remit of this meeting will follow that of IASC: "Arctic terrestrial and freshwater environments, landscapes and biota, and their responses to, and interactions with, other components of the Earth system. The remit encompasses the dynamics of the Arctic system; past, present and future".  

The remit does not include glaciers, ice sheets or geoengineering.

For more information about the workshop, follow the registration link below.

Please register for this event using the link below.  Registration deadline 31st October.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckPqnWoFBWIgR0z8MwvLt7682NZtqxkLn6fQ-A4r0X82Plag/viewform?usp=dialog

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Gareth Phoenix

School of Biosciences

The University of Sheffield

U.K.

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Re: Antarctic PhD studentships at British Antarctic Survey

Hi Sally, 

Lovely to hear from you - I hope you are well. This would be an ideal opportunity to share with our members.

You can post directly to the mailing list at UKPN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK. You have to be signed up to the mailing list already but can immediately remove yourself once you've posted. Let me know if you have any problems and we can post for you instead. 

Best,

Lucy

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Antarctic Vice-President | UK Polar Network

MSc Marine Ecosystem Management // BSc Marine Biology // CFG Degree Data Science and Engineering 

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 05:36, Sally Thorpe - BAS <0001488e9af2df15-dmarc-request@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear UKPN,

 

We're currently advertising PhD studentships at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), as part of the IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award. The deadline for applications is 8^th January 2026.

 

Our particular studentship is:

 

Modelling the impacts of grounded icebergs on the oceanography and pelagic marine ecosystem of South Georgia: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/impact-of-grounded-icebergs-on-the-oceanography-and-ecosystem-of-a-sub-antarctic-island/?p187782 - please do get in touch with any questions.

 

Details of the additional IGNITE PhD studentships at BAS investigating different aspects of Antarctic/polar science, all supervised by brilliant colleagues, are also on https://www.findaphd.com/

 

All BAS-associated studentships for 2026 will be advertised on our website soon so please keep an eye out for further opportunities here: https://www.bas.ac.uk/science/science-and-students/nerc-doctoral-training-opportunities/

 

Best wishes,

Sally

 

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High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: seth@bas.ac.uk |Tel: +44 (0)1223 221598

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Antarctic PhD studentships at British Antarctic Survey

Dear UKPN,

 

We’re currently advertising PhD studentships at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), as part of the IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award. The deadline for applications is 8^th January 2026.

 

Our particular studentship is:

 

Modelling the impacts of grounded icebergs on the oceanography and pelagic marine ecosystem of South Georgia: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/impact-of-grounded-icebergs-on-the-oceanography-and-ecosystem-of-a-sub-antarctic-island/?p187782 - please do get in touch with any questions.

 

Details of the additional IGNITE PhD studentships at BAS investigating different aspects of Antarctic/polar science, all supervised by brilliant colleagues, are also on https://www.findaphd.com/

 

All BAS-associated studentships for 2026 will be advertised on our website soon so please keep an eye out for further opportunities here: https://www.bas.ac.uk/science/science-and-students/nerc-doctoral-training-opportunities/

 

Best wishes,

Sally

 

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High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: seth@bas.ac.uk |Tel: +44 (0)1223 221598

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Two PhD opportunities, one Arctic, one exploring relevant themes

Hello everyone

Here are two opportunities at Anglia Ruskin University for PhD studies, please circulate.

Best wishes
Helen

Helen Wheeler

Associate Professor

School of Life Sciences

Anglia Ruskin University

 

https://aru.ac.uk/people/helen-wheeler

Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.dk/citations?user=xHTgSzwAAAAJ&hl=en

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helen_Wheeler3

 

Book time to meet with me

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Re: Upcoming UKPN Seminars!

A reminder about our upcoming seminars: 

Lessons from the Last Interglacial: climate, ice sheets, and sea-level commitments (Dr Matt Osman, University of Cambridge)

📅 Tuesday 14th October 3-4pm BST (in your time zone)

📍Online seminar. Sign up and see more details on the Eventbrite page. 

The Arctic Ocean in the UN Ocean Decade (Chloe Nunn) 

📅 Tuesday 21st October 3-4pm BST (in your time zone)

📍Online seminar. Sign up and see more details on the Eventbrite page. 

If you have any requests for speakers/topics or would like to give a seminar yourself please don't hesitate to get in touch! 

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 11:27, Lucy Stephenson <lujstephenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all, 

We're excited to announce two exciting, upcoming seminars, the next in our 2025 UKPN seminar series. 

Lessons from the Last Interglacial: climate, ice sheets, and sea-level commitments (Dr Matt Osman, University of Cambridge)

📅 Tuesday 14th October 3-4pm BST (in your time zone)

📍Online seminar. Sign up and see more details on the Eventbrite page. 

The Arctic Ocean in the UN Ocean Decade (Chloe Nunn) 

📅 Tuesday 21st October 3-4pm BST (in your time zone)

📍Online seminar. Sign up and see more details on the Eventbrite page. 

If you have any requests for speakers/topics or would like to give a seminar yourself please don't hesitate to get in touch! 

All the best,

Lucy

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Upcoming UKPN Seminars!

Hi all, 

We're excited to announce two exciting, upcoming seminars, the next in our 2025 UKPN seminar series. 

Lessons from the Last Interglacial: climate, ice sheets, and sea-level commitments (Dr Matt Osman, University of Cambridge)

📅 Tuesday 14th October 3-4pm BST (in your time zone)

📍Online seminar. Sign up and see more details on the Eventbrite page. 

The Arctic Ocean in the UN Ocean Decade (Chloe Nunn) 

📅 Tuesday 21st October 3-4pm BST (in your time zone)

📍Online seminar. Sign up and see more details on the Eventbrite page. 

If you have any requests for speakers/topics or would like to give a seminar yourself please don't hesitate to get in touch! 

All the best,

Lucy

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