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Nice video of our SWAIS2C drilling system heading off on the ~1200 km traverse to our drill site at the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Thanks to the team AntarcticaNewZealand for taking this mission critical gear on the long slow journey. stuff.co.nz/science/133268…

COP28: Earth's frozen zones are in trouble – we're already seeing the consequences, by Tim Naish theconversation.com/cop28-earths-f… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Brilliant news! Half the Science Team & all the Drill Team have arrived safely at KIS-3. Camp is set up, and the rest of the Science Team will arrive sometime next week. 📸 Veronika Meduna (🗺️Marlo Garnsworthy) #SWAIS2C #Antarctica

Thanks to Ana Covey and the GNS Science Te Pū Ao comms team for pulling together this update from the ice. Most members of our SWAIS2C team have made it to the drill site. Setting up now. Ready to go.

How low will we go? Through 590 m of ice. (~ 1940 ft) And 50 m of ocean cavity. (~ 165 ft) And into Earth's history below. What happened to the Ross Ice Shelf in the warmer past? What will happen as our climate warms now? [Needs a click. Art to scale.] 🎨 Marlo Garnsworthy

Erecting tents seems easy in this video. Took significantly longer!

Jane Chewings, Hot Water Driller, tells us more about the hot water drilling system. We'll use this to melt a hole through the Ross Ice Shelf so we can drill into the sediment below it. #WomenInSTEM #SWAIS2C #Antarctica 📽️ Veronika Meduna

Plenty going on at SWAIS2C KIS-3 #Sentinel2 📷🛰️

SWAIS2C Drilling Engineer Darcy Mandeno delivers some stellar news. We're very excited for the next stage of SWAIS2C to begin! #SWAIS2C #Antarctica 📽️ Veronika Meduna - is no longer here 🌏

SWAIS2C = Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2° Celsius of Warming I asked the SWAIS2C Team what words best describe the SWAIS2C Project. Here's what they said. #SWAIS2C #Antarctica #HowMuchHowFast 🎨/animation @MarloWordyBird

We love this illustrated map of our KIS-3 camp drawn by On-Ice sedimentologist Jae Il Lee! #sciart #SWAIS2C #Antarctica

Latest from our SWAIS2C KIS-3 field camp. HWD is progressing slowly and steadily as we gear up to drill beneath the sea floor below the Ross Ice Shelf. #HowMuchHowFast #Antarctica

New research published today in Science Magazine has used 🐙octopus DNA🧬to discover that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet likely collapsed during the Last Interglacial period - when global temperatures were similar to today. 📰 doi.org/10.1126/scienc… ➡️ arcsaef.com/story/octopus-…

🤔Ever pondered the big questions about what it’s like to live at a deep-field Antarctic research camp, but been too polite to ask? GNS Science and @vicuniwgtn PhD student Linda Balfoort takes us behind the scenes at the @swais2C KIS-3 camp. mtr.cool/wprthyepml

Setting out to do ambitious things in Antarctica means that sometimes things don't go exactly as planned. Due to technical issues we had to end the 1st SWAIS2C field season early. We are incredibly proud of what we've achieved so far & can’t wait to return to KIS-3 next year. 1/3

Some more pics from our successful hammer coring at KIS-3 !💪🔨 📸 Veronika Meduna - is no longer here 🌏 #SWAIS2C #Antarctica #HowMuchHowfast

Three days ago, the overland traverse team returned from Kamb Ice Stream, travelling a total of 2,650km! The convoy successfully supported the the SWAIS2C project at KIS3 which is investigating the potential collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. 📷 Jenn Danis

The SWAIS2C team successfully drilled through 580m of ice, obtained the longest sediment core retrieved from the Siple Coast, & gathered crucial information in their mission to understand the West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s past response to climate warming 🙌 ow.ly/KWee50Qw7p8

Happy to be home after a big season on the Ross Ice Shelf with the awesome SWAIS2C and AntarcticaNewZealand teams. Here's a summary of what we achieved. We still have so much more to do so join us online in November.

The first sign of sea-level rise isn’t always coastal inundation – in areas with shallow groundwater it can bring other challenges. New research from GNS Science forecasts when and where groundwater-related hazards are likely to occur for South Dunedin i.mtr.cool/sksdyafijo