Isobel Rowell

2020-11-06

Hello and welcome back! Today on Polar Times we have a palaeoclimatologist from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey. Join Jack Buckingham to hear all about her adventure to Sherman Island, drilling for ice cores as part of the Wacswain project (WArm Climate Stability of West Antarctic ice sheet in the last INterglacial!) and how we can use these icy time capsules to better predict what might happen to our climate in the future. Email us at thesearepolartimes@gmail.com if you have a...

Hello and welcome back! Today on Polar Times we have a palaeoclimatologist from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey.

Join Jack Buckingham to hear all about her adventure to Sherman Island, drilling for ice cores as part of the Wacswain project (WArm Climate Stability of West Antarctic ice sheet in the last INterglacial!) and how we can use these icy time capsules to better predict what might happen to our climate in the future.

Email us at thesearepolartimes@gmail.com if you have any questions, recommendations or if you are a polar person who would like to be on PT!

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Find the Wacswain group on Twitter: @wacswain

Read this guests excellent blog to find out more about their fieldwork at: https://blog.esc.cam.ac.uk/?author=36

Episode edited by Elise Gallois

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

Music "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA

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