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Investigating the polar regions from the inside out

2024-2025 Field Season Progress

Click below to follow along with the field team as they work out of Union Glacier Camp in the Ellsworth Mountains in West Antarctica.

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POLENET is a global network dedicated to observing the polar regions in a changing world.

The project focuses on collecting GNSS and seismic data from autonomous systems deployed at remote sites spanning much of the Antarctic ice sheets. GNSS and seismic measurements together provide a means to answer critical questions about ice sheet behavior in a warming world.

June 2025 Workshop

A meeting "2025 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Workshop: Advancing Models and Observational Constraints" will be held 2-6 June 2025 in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. The workshop aims to bring together 80-100 researchers of all career stages to discuss recent advances in the observations, analysis, and modelling of GIA.

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Sharing Science by David Saddler

Ohio State ANET research associate David Saddler visited St. Brendan Elementary School in Hilliard, OH on November 8th. He spoke to 64 3rd grade students about identifying rocks and minerals and the structure of the Earth; a subject they had just learned about in the previous weeks. As a bonus, he also talked about the …
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Field Season Training by David Saddler

From November 6th to the 8th, the 2024-2025 ANET field team met at the EarthScope GAGE facility in Boulder, CO for two and a half days of hands on training. The team practiced important field tasks such as swaping the seismic hard drive to retrieve data, installing and leveling a seismometer, and replacing GNSS antennas …
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