We’re thrilled to share that AOS professor Dan Vimont was one of six recipients of the inaugural Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring last week. Congratulations and well deserved, Dan!
Post-storm road salt can lead to toxins in runoff water, research shows.
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John Christian, former postdoc, now prof at @uoregon.bsky.social, led this study on how ice sheets and sediment work together to make grounding zone wedges, explaining pauses in Antarctic retreat over otherwise smooth reverse-sloping beds during the last deglaciation dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Schematic illustration of a conceptual model of Earth’s marine ice sheets
⚒️ Perspective: A new paradigm for understanding the Earth's marine ice sheets
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
![Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihzjireqyhyztitogqi7khxntfzmhzmyqdfvycvl2qcf5yik4z5zm)
Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]
Landscape Features
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Typed text: "It is my belief that this paper should not be published in its present form. For the most part it is a re-hash of older opinions without any new data. As a matter of fact, there is no new interpretation either as the author comes to the same conclusion as Martin did long ago. There are many references to earlier opinions without stating specifically who expressed them. Some of these are clear cut cases of beating dead horses. Others are apparently the result of a grudge against the Geological Survey and perhaps still other sources that are less apparent. If this paper is ever to be published it must be carefully rewritten. I have made no effort to correct the many grammatical and typographical errors. So far as I can tell, there is nothing publishable in this report. However, some additional work might make it worthy of a note in the Bulletin."
A 1959 peer review. It's of Fred Thwaites' manuscript, "Evidences of dissected erosion surfaces in the Driftless Area," submitted to GSA Bulletin. I wonder who anonymously said it was "a re-hash of older opinions without any new data". Published later in the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy.
These photos are from Devils Lake, WI (Devils Lake State Park) not North Dakota
🌊🧪I am honored to be the 2026 recipient of the Selby Fellowship, awarded by the Australian Academy of Science. Looking forward to speaking to (& with!) the public about climate change, sea level rise & coral reefs, drawing upon my field work in AU & around the world science.org.au/news-events/...
A portrait of Eric Wilcots under the arches of Bascom Hall.
Congratulations to current College of Letters & Science Dean Eric Wilcots for his appointment as UW–Madison’s interim chancellor effective May 17.
Read more: www.wisconsin.edu/news/archive...
Here is a talk I gave last week on glacier slip for the @igsoc.bsky.social Global Seminar Series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFY2...
We are chipping away at Greenland dirty secrets! @instaar.bsky.social @tommarchitto.bsky.social @colorado.edu
www.colorado.edu/instaar/2026...
We're looking for a postdoctoral research associate to measure Greenland meltwater using Cryoeggs and seismometers. Join our dream team, apply here by 9 Feb: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Job ID ACAD108442
#glaciologyjobs
A study in Science reveals an extensive precolonial agricultural landscape in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, suggesting Indigenous American communities cultivated maize intensively between 1000 and 1600 CE, despite a cold climate and marginal growing conditions. https://scim.ag/49voBGO
This is really nice
Grad student Tanner May has a new fun paper out in the Journal of Glaciology that is kind of magical. The magic trick that Tanner performs is that he manages to estimate thickness of glaciers using only surface elevations and nothing else.
This shouldn't work, but it does. Let me tell you why.
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A new Glaciers & Whatnot article is live! Let's talk about glacier slip and why its formulation is important for projecting sea level change 👇
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Interesting piece here on glacier slip.
Congrats to @yasmeenorellana.bsky.social on her first lead-author paper, out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! Check it out to learn about Holocene alpine ice position at Villarrica Volcano, Chile! #Geochronology #CosmogenicNuclides #Climate #Glaciers #Holocene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to @winnie-polargeo.bsky.social for earning an NSF CAREER grant to map temperatures at the base of the Antarctic ice sheet — the first project of its kind.
This research will refine climate models and help predict future melt, protecting coastal communities.
b.gatech.edu/3LyaveA
Map of Lake Superior bathymetry, which shows multiple deep north-south troughs in the easternmost part of the lake.
The bathymetry of eastern Lake Superior, the part that would be crossed by an ore carrier coming from the NW, trying to make Whitefish Bay in a storm, is fascinating. I have heard those N-S troughs explained as subglacially eroded tunnel channels, but there are probably other ideas out there.
New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt
Lovely to receive the first copies of my new book, "Life on a Little-Known Planet." Thanks to www.evangaffneydesign.com for the great cover design.
UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
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📽️ via @volcaholic1
Letter from the IGS President Shin Sugiyama announcing the new Secretary General, Allen Pope, and thanking the outgoing Secretary General, Magnus Mar Magnusson. Followed by a letter from Allen Pope, who feels excited, as a glaciologist, to be appointed in this community-facing role, and who thanks Magnus for his leadership and for his help during this transition period.
Photos of the new Secretary General of the IGS, Allen Pope, and the outgoing Secretary General, Magnus Mar Magnusson.
Announcing the new Secretary General of the International Glaciological Society, ❄Allen Pope❄, and honouring the outgoing Secretary General, ❄Magnús Már Magnússon❄.
-> See details in attached letters <-
#glaciology #ice #snow #openscience #academicassociation #learnedsociety @allenpope.bsky.social
Do you love Glacial Geology and Corn Mazes? If so come check out this talk I'm giving at Treinen Farm tomorrow www.wisconsinsciencefest.org/event/badger.... @uwmadscience.bsky.social
Award made of rocks with plaque reading: "Presented to Andrea Dutton 2025 GSA Public Service Award in honor of Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker"
Picture of Andrea Dutton smiling and holding her (heavy) award made of rocks.
Some personal news: This week I was awarded the Geological Society of America Public Service award for all my work communicating climate science to the public. I received this beautiful award (they know their audience, geologists love rocks!)
People of the Big Voice. van Schaick's photos of Ho-Chunk families, with text by Ho-Chunk scholars and artists and others involved in producing the book. shop.wisconsinhistory.org/people-of-th...
New paper on how wave and shear flow can align particles and alter light transmission into the water column!! aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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