Matt King
@deformedearth.bsky.social
Solid-earth deformation, geodesy, ice sheets, and sea level. Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science. Professor at U Tasmania. Comments mine. Host of Geodesy Feed - like and pin for geodesy content. Flawed follower of Jesus.
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Matt King
@deformedearth.bsky.social
· Feb 22
'Sleeping giant' glacier the focus of icebreaker's first science voyage
Australia's icebreaker is about to embark on one of its most important missions since coming into service more than three years ago.
www.abc.net.au
The Denman Glacier has a world of unknowns but we know enough to know it holds risks we need to assess. This voyage is so important. Nice summary here
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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🌊 Serendipity often drives science forward.
A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten.
What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten.
What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antartica’s melting glaciers
Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us estimate global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
🌊 Serendipity often drives science forward.
A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten.
What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten.
What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
Paper here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Paper here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sometimes we get lucky.
Nice article led by Steve Rintoul on new findings on the ocean melting the front of Denman Glacier
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
Nice article led by Steve Rintoul on new findings on the ocean melting the front of Denman Glacier
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antartica’s melting glaciers
Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us estimate global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Sometimes we get lucky.
Nice article led by Steve Rintoul on new findings on the ocean melting the front of Denman Glacier
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
Nice article led by Steve Rintoul on new findings on the ocean melting the front of Denman Glacier
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
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Antarctica’s future beyond 2100: high emissions drive major long-term ice loss. New study in Nature Communications by Vio Coulon and Ann Kristin Klose, showing that the fate of the Antarctic ice sheet, will play a decisive role in future sea level rise.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
From short-term uncertainties to long-term certainties in the future evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet - Nature Communications
Even if net-zero emissions are reached well before 2100, West Antarctic ice-sheet retreat could still drive multi-meter sea-level rise by 2300. Emission reductions in the coming years are critical to ...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Antarctica’s future beyond 2100: high emissions drive major long-term ice loss. New study in Nature Communications by Vio Coulon and Ann Kristin Klose, showing that the fate of the Antarctic ice sheet, will play a decisive role in future sea level rise.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Antarctica and the Southern Ocean hold critical clues about our changing climate – understanding this change is essential for communities worldwide.
Watch our latest video to find out how ACEAS is improving physical climate and ecosystem projections.
🎬 Watch now: youtu.be/Us2a4ulf404
Watch our latest video to find out how ACEAS is improving physical climate and ecosystem projections.
🎬 Watch now: youtu.be/Us2a4ulf404
From Data to Decisions: How ACEAS Improves Climate and Ecosystem Projections
YouTube video by ACEAS
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean hold critical clues about our changing climate – understanding this change is essential for communities worldwide.
Watch our latest video to find out how ACEAS is improving physical climate and ecosystem projections.
🎬 Watch now: youtu.be/Us2a4ulf404
Watch our latest video to find out how ACEAS is improving physical climate and ecosystem projections.
🎬 Watch now: youtu.be/Us2a4ulf404
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Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK:
"The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling"
More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️
"The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling"
More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK:
"The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling"
More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️
"The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling"
More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️
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👏 Congratulations to ACEAS Deputy Director, Professor Zanna Chase (@utas.edu.au), who has been appointed to the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts for 2026.
Read more: utas-prod-web.squiz.cloud/utas2020/abo...
Read more: utas-prod-web.squiz.cloud/utas2020/abo...
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
👏 Congratulations to ACEAS Deputy Director, Professor Zanna Chase (@utas.edu.au), who has been appointed to the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts for 2026.
Read more: utas-prod-web.squiz.cloud/utas2020/abo...
Read more: utas-prod-web.squiz.cloud/utas2020/abo...
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New research published today in @nature.com shows the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) – the Southern Hemisphere’s most influential climate driver – has reached its most positive state in more than a millennium.
Read the Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Read the Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Southern Annular Mode dynamics, projections and impacts in a changing climate - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) has shifted towards its positive phase owing to ozone depletion and increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. This Review discusses the dynamics, trends and projections...
www.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
New research published today in @nature.com shows the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) – the Southern Hemisphere’s most influential climate driver – has reached its most positive state in more than a millennium.
Read the Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Read the Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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🌏 Happy Antarctica Day! ❄️
Today we celebrate global cooperation in protecting and understanding one of Earth’s most unique and fragile environments.
A huge thanks to all our researchers for driving this work forward every day.
🎥 Learn more in our new ACEAS video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGg3...
Today we celebrate global cooperation in protecting and understanding one of Earth’s most unique and fragile environments.
A huge thanks to all our researchers for driving this work forward every day.
🎥 Learn more in our new ACEAS video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGg3...
Introduction to ACEAS
YouTube video by ACEAS
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
🌏 Happy Antarctica Day! ❄️
Today we celebrate global cooperation in protecting and understanding one of Earth’s most unique and fragile environments.
A huge thanks to all our researchers for driving this work forward every day.
🎥 Learn more in our new ACEAS video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGg3...
Today we celebrate global cooperation in protecting and understanding one of Earth’s most unique and fragile environments.
A huge thanks to all our researchers for driving this work forward every day.
🎥 Learn more in our new ACEAS video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGg3...
Want a state-of-the-art explainer on the big changes occurring in the Antarctic?
Check out this recent briefing, delivered to COP30 @iccinet.bsky.social
Very much designed for the non-expert, so don't be afraid to dip in!
www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw... 1/2
Check out this recent briefing, delivered to COP30 @iccinet.bsky.social
Very much designed for the non-expert, so don't be afraid to dip in!
www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw... 1/2
Policy Briefing: Emerging Evidence of Abrupt Changes in the Antarctic Environment
YouTube video by International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Want a state-of-the-art explainer on the big changes occurring in the Antarctic?
Check out this recent briefing, delivered to COP30 @iccinet.bsky.social
Very much designed for the non-expert, so don't be afraid to dip in!
www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw... 1/2
Check out this recent briefing, delivered to COP30 @iccinet.bsky.social
Very much designed for the non-expert, so don't be afraid to dip in!
www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw... 1/2
Another Earth sciences course has been killed off. There's no doubt mining has the wrong image, and is far from exciting for many young people, but it is critical for the renewable transition.
At some point there may need to be market intervention by the government.
At some point there may need to be market intervention by the government.
Geoscience students are left feeling "in the dark" and "ripped off" as Federation University becomes the latest university to ditch its geology specialisation.
Federation University scraps one of Australia's oldest geology courses
Geoscience students are left feeling "in the dark" and "ripped off" as Federation University becomes the latest university to ditch its geology specialisation.
www.abc.net.au
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Another Earth sciences course has been killed off. There's no doubt mining has the wrong image, and is far from exciting for many young people, but it is critical for the renewable transition.
At some point there may need to be market intervention by the government.
At some point there may need to be market intervention by the government.
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🛰️ How can autonomous robots stay on track in hazardous and remote environments?
Our new AI model allows teams of autonomous drones, submarines and satellites to adapt to unexpected mission changes by taking charge of their own planning.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/43ZoS1V
Our new AI model allows teams of autonomous drones, submarines and satellites to adapt to unexpected mission changes by taking charge of their own planning.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/43ZoS1V
New AI model allows drones to plan for themselves
Researchers from the Alan Turing Institute have developed a new AI model that allows teams of autonomous drones, submarines and satellites to adapt to unexpe
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🛰️ How can autonomous robots stay on track in hazardous and remote environments?
Our new AI model allows teams of autonomous drones, submarines and satellites to adapt to unexpected mission changes by taking charge of their own planning.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/43ZoS1V
Our new AI model allows teams of autonomous drones, submarines and satellites to adapt to unexpected mission changes by taking charge of their own planning.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/43ZoS1V
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🌊 What is the Meridional Overturning Circulation
and why is it important?
The Meridional Overturning Circulation (#MOC) – critical for transporting heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients across the globe – is weakening under climate change.
and why is it important?
The Meridional Overturning Circulation (#MOC) – critical for transporting heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients across the globe – is weakening under climate change.
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🌊 What is the Meridional Overturning Circulation
and why is it important?
The Meridional Overturning Circulation (#MOC) – critical for transporting heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients across the globe – is weakening under climate change.
and why is it important?
The Meridional Overturning Circulation (#MOC) – critical for transporting heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients across the globe – is weakening under climate change.
Great to welcome (from @imas-utas.bsky.social) Xue Long, one of China's ice breakers, back to Hobart!
Fair winds and following seas as she heads south.
Fair winds and following seas as she heads south.
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Great to welcome (from @imas-utas.bsky.social) Xue Long, one of China's ice breakers, back to Hobart!
Fair winds and following seas as she heads south.
Fair winds and following seas as she heads south.
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New paper alert ! 🙂
Happy to share our new study published in The Cryosphere !
doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
We modelled the evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet from the LGM (24 ka) to the present and learned a lot on its former history and dynamics !
@jeremyely.bsky.social @chrisdclark.bsky.social
Happy to share our new study published in The Cryosphere !
doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
We modelled the evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet from the LGM (24 ka) to the present and learned a lot on its former history and dynamics !
@jeremyely.bsky.social @chrisdclark.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
New paper alert ! 🙂
Happy to share our new study published in The Cryosphere !
doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
We modelled the evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet from the LGM (24 ka) to the present and learned a lot on its former history and dynamics !
@jeremyely.bsky.social @chrisdclark.bsky.social
Happy to share our new study published in The Cryosphere !
doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
We modelled the evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet from the LGM (24 ka) to the present and learned a lot on its former history and dynamics !
@jeremyely.bsky.social @chrisdclark.bsky.social
This is a great example of Australia's Antarctic researchers working together to deliver globally-important messages to policymakers
Antarctic science at COP30 🌍❄️
A panel of Australian scientists, including ACEAS Deputy Director @profmattengland.bsky.social (UNSW), today shared insights about abrupt changes unfolding across the #Antarctic environment at the #COP30 Cryosphere Pavilion.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw...
A panel of Australian scientists, including ACEAS Deputy Director @profmattengland.bsky.social (UNSW), today shared insights about abrupt changes unfolding across the #Antarctic environment at the #COP30 Cryosphere Pavilion.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw...
Policy Briefing: Emerging Evidence of Abrupt Changes in the Antarctic Environment
YouTube video by International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is a great example of Australia's Antarctic researchers working together to deliver globally-important messages to policymakers
If you can afford to pay $55 for potato crisps, give it to charity instead
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If you can afford to pay $55 for potato crisps, give it to charity instead
I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania.
All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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Current Vacancies
careers.utas.edu.au
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania.
All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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More than 50 of the world’s leading ocean scientists have gathered in Hobart to explore new ways of using NASA satellite technology to understand how climate change is reshaping the Southern Ocean
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/nasa-sa...
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/nasa-sa...
NASA satellite experts gather in Hobart to study Southern Ocean from space
50 of the world’s leading ocean scientists have gathered in Hobart…
pulsetasmania.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
More than 50 of the world’s leading ocean scientists have gathered in Hobart to explore new ways of using NASA satellite technology to understand how climate change is reshaping the Southern Ocean
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/nasa-sa...
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/nasa-sa...
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Antarctica is in extreme peril | grist.org/climate/anta...
Antarctica is in extreme peril
New research catalogs several “abrupt changes,” like a precipitous loss of sea ice, unfolding in Antarctica with dire implications for us all.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Antarctica is in extreme peril | grist.org/climate/anta...
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Average temperature departures by month in the #Antarctic since the year 1940.
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Average temperature departures by month in the #Antarctic since the year 1940.
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
Gathering with this brilliant group of researchers was one of the highlights of the year for me.
Some amazing, inspirational work going on, steadily advancing our understanding of Antarctica and how it will affect us in so many ways.
Some amazing, inspirational work going on, steadily advancing our understanding of Antarctica and how it will affect us in so many ways.
🌍 Last week, 140+ Antarctic scientists came together in #Hobart for our ACEAS Research Forum 2025 to share the latest research and insights about the climate risks emerging from #Antarctica and the #SouthernOcean.
Read more: antarctic.org.au/aceas-resear...
Read more: antarctic.org.au/aceas-resear...
ACEAS Research Forum 2025: a national gathering of Antarctic science excellence - ACEAS
More than 140 researchers from across Australia gathered in Hobart last week for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) Research Forum, held from 5 to 7 November at the Univ...
antarctic.org.au
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Gathering with this brilliant group of researchers was one of the highlights of the year for me.
Some amazing, inspirational work going on, steadily advancing our understanding of Antarctica and how it will affect us in so many ways.
Some amazing, inspirational work going on, steadily advancing our understanding of Antarctica and how it will affect us in so many ways.
Australia pays special attention to the Indian Ocean bit of the Southern Ocean.
Quite alarming that sea ice there is in entirely unexplored territory (top right panel, also a cropped version, click to see full images)
Quite alarming that sea ice there is in entirely unexplored territory (top right panel, also a cropped version, click to see full images)
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Australia pays special attention to the Indian Ocean bit of the Southern Ocean.
Quite alarming that sea ice there is in entirely unexplored territory (top right panel, also a cropped version, click to see full images)
Quite alarming that sea ice there is in entirely unexplored territory (top right panel, also a cropped version, click to see full images)
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Heading home now, after an awesome week in Hobart! So much great Antarctic science happening here.
Also: lovely people. Shame they’re so darn good at cricket 🏏
Also: lovely people. Shame they’re so darn good at cricket 🏏
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Heading home now, after an awesome week in Hobart! So much great Antarctic science happening here.
Also: lovely people. Shame they’re so darn good at cricket 🏏
Also: lovely people. Shame they’re so darn good at cricket 🏏