Tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica’s ice sheet reach temperatures of nearly -100 degrees Celsius (-148 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter.

NSIDC senior research scientist Ted Scambos co-authors the Nature paper, which breaks new ground in implicating sea ice change in sea level rise.

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) are joining forces to investigate Thwaties Glacier—a massive, rapidly changing glacier in Antarctica.

Roger G. Barry, founding director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), passed away on March 19, 2018, concluding a distinguished career in the study of the cryosphere and mountain climates.