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Why Arctic sea ice intervention research can’t wait
Our advisors play a crucial role in ensuring the success of our endeavour. This week we talk to our advisor Dr. Geoffrey (Geoff) Evatt a Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester. Geoff has specialised in glaciology for almost 20 years, and we ask him how he became involved with Arctic Reflections…
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Keep it in the Arctic: Preserving Arctic sea ice by limiting ice export
In recent field tests, we’ve been exploring the feasibility of preserving Arctic sea ice by pumping water onto existing sea ice. Thicker ice is more structurally resilient and better able to survive the increasingly warm summer months. This extra duration enables more solar energy to be reflected back into space – energy that would otherwise…
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Ensuring effectiveness in extreme environments
Thickening large areas of ice by pumping seawater onto it, in extreme cold conditions, presents several challenges. One of the hurdles we’ve encountered is ensuring even spread the water. To tackle this, we’ve been testing hoses to optimise the distribution of water over a large surface. We found that the rapid freezing within these distribution hoses,…
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Insetting our carbon footprint with FincoEnergies
After concluding a successful field test in Newfoundland, Canada, where we were researching how we can preserve the thinning Arctic sea ice, we have been working with our partner FincoEnergies to inset all our emissions. This includes the emission from our flights (much of our team is based in Delft, The Netherlands), the emissions from the field…
