Iconic St Kilda Pier in Melbourne, Australia

❄️ A landmark new study has revealed that glaciers on Australia’s remote sub-Antarctic Heard Island are shrinking at an accelerating rate due to rising temperatures and climate change.
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Melting glaciers on remote Australian island spark concern Glaciers on the remote Australian territory of Heard Island have lost almost a quarter of their size over the past seven decades amid rising temperatures in the sub-Antarctic region, new research show...

Australia's only glaciers are shrinking fast.

Important work led by @levantielidze.bsky.social @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @arcsaef.bsky.social

paper here: tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
news here:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

These two positions are closing in 5 days!

Fram and Gjøa in one place is a lot

Wilson’s Promontory or Yiruk Wamoon, 3 hours drive from Melbourne, Australia, is National Park with magnificent peaks, beaches, rainforest, and the world’s southernmost mangroves. A hiking and boating paradise, the promontory and surrounding islands are the exposed portions of a Devonian granite batholith.

🌏 Rare opportunity to join us!

We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university

🔬 Isotope Geochemistry
🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial
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obviously not my field but ppm measurement needs lab. Ice is transported frozen, often in insulated boxes.

Congratulations Jess. The figures look amazing btw!

How do extreme ENSO events affect Antarctic surface mass balance? Abstract. Extreme El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events have far-reaching impacts globally, yet their impacts on Antarctica are poorly understood. In particular, how extreme ENSO events influence...

New Paper out today! How do extreme ENSO events impact Antarctic snow accumulation❄️🧊🌨️? with @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @fsmccormack.bsky.social @benhenley.bsky.social @helenmcgregor @ariaan.bsky.social
@arcsaef.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social
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Air bubbles trapped in glacier ice recently calved off Brewster Glacier in Aotearoa / New Zealand.

We don’t know the age of this ice but I estimate a few centuries - suggesting the bubbles would record pre-industrial CO2 levels.

Peak Melbourne #ridetowork

Happy to live in a liberal democracy where voting has a calm, polite and almost festive vibe, and people respect one another and the system.

Today we were privileged to be visited by Kirrae Wurrung/ Bundjalung Elder Uncle Lionel Lauch, who carried out an Acknowledgment of Country and Smoking Ceremony in the @monashuniversity.bsky.social Earth Science Garden. We are grateful for his generosity to share knowledge so central to our School.

A reminder about this rare opportunity- closing 2nd May!

❄️I am pleased to announce that our new study titled "Post-Little Ice Age Equilibrium-Line Altitude and Temperature Changes in the Greater Caucasus Based on Small Glaciers" has been published in Remote Sensing www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17...
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Congratulations Levan. Having seen these glaciers first hand with you, I am very pleased to be part of this study.

Australia is looking for someone to lead the Antarctic Division's Antarctic Climate program.

Australian residents only, sorry.

Closes May 12

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Lyrebirds and kookaburras in Nanadhong (Cathedral Ranges), two hours from Melbourne, Australia

On holiday, and also on an international science planning Zoom call. I can’t fault the setting…

A chance to join our amazing School of 🌍 💨 🔥 @monashuniversity.bsky.social as a continuing Lecturer or Senior Lecturer

Atmospheric dynamics, modelling, physical meteorology…

Reduced teaching load due to @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social

Pls repost

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Scientists collect unique sea creatures during voyage to East Antarctica From giant sea spiders to "sea pigs" and "sea butterflies" — analysing the rich biodiversity in Antarctica has thrilled researchers studying the impacts of climate change.

On the edge of #Antarctica, 60 scientists aboard RSV Nuyina are researching the impact of climate change on the fastest-melting glacier in the eastern part of the icy continent — ABC News with @utas.edu.au, @arcsaef.bsky.social, AAD and @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social

▶️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

📢 New paper alert 📢
Amazing interdisciplinary effort by Emma bringing together Antarctic ice sheet and biological evidence.

But what does it tell us? 👇

Adam J Kessler ‪Monash University‬ - ‪‪Cited by 1,473‬‬ - ‪denitrification‬ - ‪permeable sediments‬ - ‪early diagenetic modelling‬ - ‪bioirrigation‬

3/ Dr Adam Kessler, an amazing biogeochemist
scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Adam is our chair of education and with @ruthreef.bsky.social (previous chair) Dr Sophia Tsang (new education specialist) and others, they have reimagined the teaching programme in our School into something wonderful.

Dr Andrew Gunn wins internationally prestigious Luna B. Leopold Early Career Award Dr Andrew Gunn has been named the American Geophysical Union’s 2024 Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Luna B. Leopold Early Career Award and Robert Sharp Lecture recipient.

2/ Dr Andrew Gunn, @agunn.bsky.social an expert in land surface processes, particularly wind transport of sediment on earth and other planets. Won the AGU Luna B Leopold award last year.
www.monash.edu/science/news...

Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state - Communications Earth & Environment Record-low sea ice coverage around Antarctica in 2022 and 2023 co-occurred with substantial subsurface ocean warming, which could be indicative of a change in the mechanisms that govern Antarctic sea ...

1/ Dr Ariaan Purich @ariaan.bsky.social, an expert in coupled climate modelling and the Southern Ocean. She’s made a huge impact. Check out her paper with @edoddridge.bsky.social on the recent decline in Antarctic sea ice - 180 citations since 2023!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Three staff members in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment @monashuniversity.bsky.social were promoted to Senior Lecturer this week. All inspiring scientists and educators. Let’s walk through them one by one.

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Autumn coloured dog 🐕 🍁

The beginning of the leaf fall season in a part of Melbourne, Australia that is dominated by European trees.

Autumn in Melbourne, Australia