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Sunderland student plots the Arctic's melting ice
2013-02-27 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sir Ranulph Fiennes' prudent withdrawal from Antarctica comes in the same week as the successful return from the Arctic of a student at Sunderland University, which has an interesting niche in Polar research. Matthew Ayre, who is 25 and from Tynemouth, has been working on ice melt, both contemporary and historical, on board the United States icebreaker Healy during a five week voyage in the Arctic Ocean. He got the billet because Sunderland has made a speciality of the study of captains' logs,...
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