Glaciers
The annual snowline survey
Jump onboard an alpine flight to photograph some glaciers! The annual snowline survey has been running since 1977, but today new techniques are allowing researchers to go beyond 2D photos to make 3D… Audio
Our Changing World – Snowline survey
Jump onboard an alpine flight to photograph some glaciers! The annual snowline survey has been running since 1977, but today new techniques are allowing researchers to go beyond 2D photos to make 3D… Audio
Dr Chandrika Nath: Scientific research in the halls of power and at the poles
Scientific research has taken Dr Chandrika Nath from pole to pole. As a glaciologist she has worked in Lapland and Antarctica, spending 100 days in the latter collecting data samples in extreme… Audio
On Thinning Ice: how dwindling glaciers reveal climate change
Assoc. Prof. Heather Purdie explains why glaciers are the perfect barometer of climate change. A highlight from the University of Canterbury's Raising the Bar Christchurch 2023 series. Audio
Glaciers as barometers of climate change
Shaun Eaves talks about glaciers in the North Island and how evidence left behind by glaciers can help reconstruct past climates. Audio
Our Changing World for 4 March 2021
Developing a new test for detecting IVF embryos carrying too many chromosomes, and what past and present glaciers can tell us about climate. Audio
NIWA's annual glacier survey not hindered by ash and dust
The Australian bushfires didn't hamper NIWA's annual glacier survey undertaken yesterday as first through they might. Dr Drew Lorrey is NIWA's climate scientist and he explains what they found to… Audio
Ruth Mottram - The melting of Greenland's ice sheet
What can Greenland's vast ice sheet tell us about the health of the world's glaciers? Glaciologist and climate scientist Ruth Mottram works for the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen where… Audio
Tasman Glacier sheds millions of tonnes
An 'incredible' chunk of ice has broken off the Tasman Glacier in the middle of the night, floating into the Aoraki Mount Cook National park. Guide Charlie Hobbs describes the massive icebergs to Lisa… Video, Audio
East Antarctica's glaciers are stirring
In a region long considered stable and unaffected by changes elsewhere on the frozen continent, the first signs of significant melting have been detected. Audio
Glaciers in trouble after marine heatwave
An aerial survey reveals this summer's marine heatwave in the Tasman Sea was bad news for glaciers in the Southern Alps. Audio
Our Changing World for 15 March 2018
The good news is that takahē numbers are on the rise, while a marine heatwave has been bad news for South Island glaciers. Audio
Brian Anderson: fast forward frames of glacial retreat
Brian Anderson has installed video cameras gathering time lapse videos showing changes on Fox, Franz Joseph, Tasman and Brewster glaciers which not only transmit stunning visual evidence of the… Audio
The Mystery of Growing Glaciers
Kathryn Ryan talks to Associate Professor Andrew Mackintosh, the Deputy director of the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University in Wellington. His new research, published in Nature… Audio
The unusual case of the 'growing' glaciers
Glaciers around the world are melting and shrinking, but glaciologists have been investigating why some New Zealand glaciers bucked the trend between 1983 and 2005. Video, Audio
NZ glacial shrinkage
Kathryn Ryan speaks to glaciologist Trevor Chinn on the rapid shrinkage of the country's glaciers. The central Southern Alps has lost a quarter of its ice in recent decades and stands to lose another… Audio
Glacier melt to drown historic Antarctica New Zealand site
An historic Antarctica New Zealand site is being drowned by rising lake levels caused by climate changes.
Stories hidden in rocks
In this wrap of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand's annual conference, we explore what rocks tell us about our changing world. Video, Audio
Unnaming a glacier
Sasha Huber is travelling the world, unnaming things named after nineteenth century Swiss-born naturalist and glaciologist Louis Agassiz. Her latest unnaming ceremony has been held in New Zealand, at… Audio
Glaciers of Western Canada - Emeritus Professor Garry Clarke
New research shows the glaciers of western Canada could largely melt away by the end of this century. The study was published in the journal Nature Geoscience and was undertaken by the University of… Audio
