A peek under the ice
Description
It’s the last in our run of episodes about Antarctica. We are all back home, and we promise to stop bothering the poor continent.
Alan and Thom discuss returning to an inbox of horrors and readjusting to time away.
More cable cutting in our news updates, blobfish being voted fish of the year, and the tongue-eating louse potentially being invertebrate of the year. We don’t want to say we influence the news, but it seems a little spooky.
Thom couldn’t talk about it until after the press release, but the Schmidt Ocean Institute cruise he was on had to look at the seabed under a 150-meter-thick ice shelf right as it moved out of the way. We talked to the science leads on that cruise, Patricia Esquete and Sasha Montelli. We learned about the hydrography and glaciology of that region and then the seabed and communities that were revealed when the ice shelf moved away.
Kat and Thom updated us on what it was like to join a tourist expedition ship, and we grabbed a Coffee With Andrew to learn what it was like to dive almost 5km deep in a sub.
You’re bound to leave this episode with a watery smile!
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Reference list
News
Cable cutting
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct7yqx
Blobfish fish of the year
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360621538/worlds-ugliest-animal-named-new-zealands-fish-year
Invertebrate of the year
‘Unique and important’: Tongue-biting louse is wonderfully gruesome | Marine life | The Guardian
Interview
Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al. The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13496-5
Helen Amanda Fricker et al., Antarctica in 2025: Drivers of deep uncertainty in projected ice loss.Science387,601-609(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adt9619 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9619
Ingels, J., Aronson, R.B., Smith, C.R., Baco, A., Bik, H.M., Blake, J.A., Brandt, A., Cape, M., Demaster, D., Dolan, E. and Domack, E., 2021. Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12(1), p.e682.
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/wcc.682
Challenger 150 - Home - Challenger 150
The Ocean Census | Discover Life
Other
Journal Minerva – Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces
Credits
Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel
Logo image: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute
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