You can still join us on Wednesday for our annual Bert Bolin Climate Lecture!
It's our pleasure to have Dr. Valérie Masson-Delmotte (@valmasdel.bsky.social) as our lecturer this year — sharing her experience as a paleoclimatologist.
Registration is open until the day of!
🔗: bit.ly/BertBolinCli...
Greater Manchester Police has found "no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting" in the Gorton and Denton by-election, after Reform made a complaint over alleged "family voting"
The investigation looked at potential offences under the Representation of the People Act
You’re right, just that it was quick!
How about the Hansen et al paper? - they dated the canyon walls - Jansen, J.D., et al. 2013. Inner
gorges cut by subglacial meltwater during the Fennoscandian ice sheet decay. Nature Communications 5, 3815. DOI:
10.1038/ncomms4815.
I'll be talking about glacier surges online tomorrow (25th March) at 8pm (London time) as part of the @igsoc.bsky.social Global Seminar Series. Please do come along!
www.igsoc.org/event/igs-gl...
Ah! You found the donkeys!
Out coring for past sea level and GLOFs! We found this unit of graded gravel and sand with erosive boundaries, between a lacustrine gyttja (top) and a silty suspension sediment (bottom) 🤤 No idea what it is, yet ... Down = down core.
One century of anthropogenic melting of Glacier Blanc, southern French Alps (Ecrins massif)! 🧊🔥
📷 Source: RTM / ONF and Ecrins National Park
Who doesn’t love seeing a supraglacial channel in winter? The ice shapes are amazing — frozen flows, bright blues, and patterns that show how glaciers move and melt. Nature at its coolest. #Glacier #Science #Glaciology
Thanks Chris!
Large limestone boulder with a weathered surface and an ivy-covered tree on top. A figure wearing a red jacket is standing on the boulder for scale. The boulder is taller than she is.
At last...new paper with Kathryn Adamson, @glaciologytim.bsky.social, Phil Hughes, and Derek Fabel and Delia Gheorgiu at @isotopesuk.bsky.social - thanks, everyone! 36Cl dates from the Irish Midlands, plus some geomorphology to complicate things. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.
Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."
Delighted to announce a new section on #AntarcticGlaciers devoted to North American glaciation. Read here to find out about the Laurentide Ice Sheet and its Geomorphology, extent at the LGM and deglaciation.
www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacial-geol...
Our new paper on the future of the Antarctic Peninsula published today, showing how the various systems across the Peninsula will be impacted by different global warming scenarios.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Sediment Transport by Greenland Icebergs (ice-rafted debris) contribute about 1/3 of the Greenland's total sediment output. See research by Ethan Pierce, Dartmouth and Irina Overeem, CU, Boulder published in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.colorado.edu/instaar/2026...
Like #surgingglaciers or #Svalbard ? Then check out our new review paper in #EarthScienceReviews #Openaccess
doi.org/10.1016/j.ea... @willharcourt.bsky.social
..and if you are interested in new mapping of aqueous and terrestrial ice margin positions of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet then Dulfer et al in 'Geomorphology' has just landed. Again, data galore for comparsion with ice sheet modelling
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@iceybethan.bsky.social @owenking.bsky.social @climatom.bsky.social
Sharing these three-year early career fellowships at Durham University, UK. Open to all nationalities and disciplines. I was lucky to have a senior fellowship here many years ago and had a very positive experience. Details are below:
www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...
Landscape image of the Cordillera Apolobamba, Bolivia, 2015
❄️ 💧 New paper out in @igsoc.bsky.social Journal of Glaciology: "Monitoring glacier evolution and assessing glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) susceptibility in the Bolivian Andes"
lnkd.in/e2tWUXeu
#glaciers #climatechange #climate #andes #glofs #Bolivia
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New paper! I took a diversion to Earth and reconstructed the flow evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet.
doi.org/10.1111/bor....
A privilege to work on this epic w/ @annalchughes.bsky.social, Helen Dulfer, @jeremyely.bsky.social, @chrisdclark.bsky.social @bmboyes.bsky.social & all co-authors!
Best of luck, Anson!
It’s all kicking off in Brighton for the QRA Annual Discussion Meeting !! #QRA2026ADM ECR and mid career workshops are underway. Main conference starts sharp at 13.45 with our first scientific session @quaternaryra.bsky.social
Shaking off the cobwebs from the festive season, assembling slides and photographs, ready to try to talk some science @quaternaryra.bsky.social in Brighton on Monday @uniofbrighton.bsky.social
A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
CONGRATULATIONS to @geogdurham.bsky.social's own Dave Roberts and Colm O'Cofaigh who have both been awarded the prestigious Polar Medal by the King in the 2026 New Year's Honours List. Such a well-deserved achievement for two excellent colleagues! ❄️🍾🥂
durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/p...
Raindrops can bounce and then roll down a slope, picking up sand as they go.
The sand-covered balls transport up to 100 times more sediment downhill than drops that don’t roll, a fact that could help make more realistic computer models of soil erosion and land change. https://scim.ag/4p7ghBE
New research from @daveroberts2026.bsky.social reveals how ocean warming triggered the large-scale retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. It offers vital clues for understanding its modern-day vulnerability.
Read more: ➡️ brnw.ch/21wYqW6
@newcastleuni.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social
An Alaskan coastal environment with vegetated beach ridges and a calm sea
22-month postdoctoral position in the Durham Geography department working on Alaska paleogeodesy as part of NERC/NSF funded grant. More details here, application deadline is January 8th: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
