News and Media – Catherine Walker

2024: New Scientist
There are growing fears of an alarming shift in Antarctic sea ice
https://www.newscientist.com/alarming-shift-in-antarctic-sea-ice

2023: Fox Weather
World's Largest Iceberg Breaks Free, Moving Toward Open Sea
(watch and listen!) https://www.youtube.com/watch

2023: BBC News
A23a: World's biggest iceberg on the move after 30 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment

2023: NBC News
Comprehensive study of West Antarctic Ice Sheet finds collapse may be unavoidable
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse

2023: USA Today
Fact check: Despite claims in old video, Antarctic ice melting, sea ice set record low
https://www.usatoday.com/story/fact-check-antarctic-ice-melting-sea-ice-set-record-low/

2022: BBC News
How a colossal block of ice became an obsession
By Jonathan Amos
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59998703

2022: The New York Times
In a First, an Ice Shelf Collapses in East Antarctica
By Henry Fountain
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/climate/east-antarctica-ice-shelf-collapse.html

2022: NPR News (Radio)
An East Antarctic ice shelf collapses
With correspondent Alison Keyes
(Written) https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1088840912/antarctica-ice-shelf-collapses

2022: BBC Radio 4 News - Afternoon Current Affairs programme
Ice Shelf Collapse
(listen in) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015l0z

2022: 94.1 KPFA San Francisco, UpFront program
An ice shelf collapses in East Antarctica
(listen in) https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-april-6-2022/

2022: Associated Press (featured on CBC, in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Portland Press Herald, LA Times, others)
Ice shelf collapses in previously stable East Antarctica
By Seth Borenstein
https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-new-york-new-york-city-antarctica-4f5f1817bffd632e48e845d4638cc237

2022: Eos (AGU)
A New Clue to Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse
By Jessica Duncombe
https://eos.org/articles/a-new-clue-to-antarctic-ice-shelf-collapse

2021: Discover Magazine
‘Tiger stripes’ on a Saturn Moon Could Be Even More Unique Than Previously Thought
By Theo Nicitopoulos
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/tiger-stripes-on-a-saturn-moon-could-be-even-more-unique-than-previously

2019 Eos (AGU)
New Earth Orbiter Provides a Sharper Look at a Changing Planet
By Lori Magruder et al.
https://eos.org/science-updates/new-earth-orbiter-provides-a-sharper-look-at-a-changing-planet

2018 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Press Conference
East Antarctic Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNM46QdEW14&t=1155s

2018: BBC News
East Antarctic glaciers “are waking up”
By Jonathan Amos
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-46529672

2018: UK Daily Mail
NASA maps reveal huge swaths of East Antarctica’s most stable glaciers are “waking up” and losing ice
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6480763/East-Antarcticas-glaciers-waking-NASA-study-warns.html

2018: Newsweek
NASA Warns That Massive East Antartica Glaciers Melting at 'Systematic' Rate as Trump Doubles Down on Climate Change Denial
By Jason Lemon
https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-east-antartica-glaciers-melting-systematic-rate-donald-trump-climate-1254339

2018: NASA’s Earth Science News
More glaciers in East Antarctica are waking up
By Maria-José Viñas
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2832/more-glaciers-in-east-antarctica-are-waking-up/

2018: Nature News
East Antarctica is losing ice faster than anyone thought
By Alexandra Witze
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07714-1

2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Press Conference
The Melting Cryosphere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wwbNEkSJ38&t=2372s

2017: The Verge
Warm waters tripled the amount of ice lost in these Antarctic glaciers — and that's bad for sea level rise
By Alessandra Potenza
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16363158/antarctica-glaciers-melting-marguerite-bay-climate-change-warming-oceans

2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Press Conference
The Ocean’s Hidden Heat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcBA37HCHmY

2022: The New York Times
Why Did Two Antarctic Ice Shelves Fail? Scientists Say They Now Know
By Henry Fountain
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/climate/antarctic-ice-shelves-atmospheric-rivers.html

2022: Scientific American
Backward-Flowing Rivers Can Destabilize Ice Shelves
By Theo Nicitopoulos
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/backward-flowing-rivers-can-destabilize-ice-shelves

2019: PBS Nova
Like a giant Thermos, Pluto keeps its underground ocean from freezing
By Katherine J. Wu
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/pluto-ocean-giant-thermos/

2018: Mashable
That rectangular iceberg NASA found is weird as hell, and it's not the only one
By Mark Kaufman
https://mashable.com/article/rectangular-iceberg-antarctica-nasa-video

2017: Scientific American
A NASA Spacecraft Might Bounce, Crunch or Sink on Europa
By Alexandra Witze, Nature News
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-nasa-spacecraft-might-bounce-crunch-or-sink-on-europa/

2020: NASA Climate
Women's History Month Highlights
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nasaclimate/status/1243221774826909697

Mount Holyoke College (Alumna '07)
From Earth's glaciers to Jupiter's icy moons
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/news-stories/earths-glaciers-jupiters-icy-moons

University of New Hampshire (UNH)
UNH Undergraduate Researchers Win Summer Internships At NASA Academy
https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1690&context=news