Durham researchers have been in Oslo this week for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) meeting. They've been sharing their latest research and joining international discussions on the past, present, and future of Antarctica, from its ice and landscape to its oceans and life. 🐧❄️🏔️

Congratulations @hollywytia.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD yesterday (thanks to examiners @mikebentley.bsky.social & @dmrippin.bsky.social)! 🥳 It was a pleasure to supervise Holly's work on "Rivers on ice: the distribution & evolution of supraglacial channels on mountain glaciers"! ❄️

❓Can citizen science do more than generate data? New research led by @carolineclason.bsky.social assesses the value of crowd-sourced mapping of glaciers in the Peruvian Andes, and highlights that it can be a powerful tool for enhancing climate and spatial literacy! 🗺️ doi.org/10.1177/0309...

We're advancing understanding of the Arctic, and how we might better protect this crucial part of our planet. The Arctic was the subject of our latest Chancellor-in-Conversation event 👉 tinyurl.com/muvces6t @durhamanthropology.bsky.social, @geogdurham.bsky.social, @durhamglaciology.bsky.social

It’s not just how much glaciers are melting that matters—when and how meltwater makes its way to the ocean are also important. A new study shows that seasonal changes in the forces that stretch and squeeze ice play a big role in when glacial water is released. 🧊🧪 eos.org/research-spo...

Stretching and Squeezing Release Glacial Meltwater - Eos

Seasonal changes in the forces that pull and push ice play a major role in when meltwater runs through glaciers and into the ocean.

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Great to see our new work in AGU Advances, led by @tomchudley.bsky.social, highlighted in EOS. Read more below! 👇❄️

Eos@eos.org · 3mo ago

It’s not just how much glaciers are melting that matters—when and how meltwater makes its way to the ocean are also important. A new study shows that seasonal changes in the forces that stretch and squeeze ice play a big role in when glacial water is released. 🧊🧪 eos.org/research-spo...

New paper out now from Durham Glaciology PhD student @mappermundle.bsky.social! 👇❄️🥳

Edmund Lea@mappermundle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📃 The first paper from my PhD has just been published in JGR: Earth Surface, detailing insights into Arctic glacial history from morphometry and machine learning.❄️ 🛰️ doi.org/10.1029/2025... Co-authors @polarguy.bsky.social, @drfionaclubb.bsky.social and Neil Ross. @iapetusdtp.bsky.social

❄️ NEW PAPER out today led by Honary Fellow @tomchudley.bsky.social alongside others in the group. Tom's paper explores the role of seasonal varations in ice dynamics for the drainange of surface meltwater through crevasses on Store Glacier, Greenland agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Come find out more about research and community work by members of the Durham Glaciology Group at #EGU26! Presentations this year span palaeo reconstructions to glacier hydrology, plus an opportunity to find out more about publishing in The Cryosphere ❄️ @egu-cr.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social

Our new review paper is now out in Reviews of Geophysics! 🎉 We present the first comprehensive review of the role of sea ice and ice mélange in influencing outlet glacier dynamics across both polar regions ❄️ 🧊 Read more here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Influence of Sea Ice and Ice Mélange on Outlet Glacier Dynamics in the Arctic and Antarctic: Recent Progress and Future Challenges

Sea ice and mélange influence glacier dynamics directly through modulating calving, and indirectly through influencing ocean circulation Glacier responses to sea-ice change are influenced by loca...

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Really enjoyed contributing to this week's UNESCO World Day for Glaciers activities in Paris. ❄️ My colleagues and I hosted a side event on "Cryosphere in Crisis: Pathways for a Safe and Just Future" and introduced our new @iacscryo.bsky.social working group on Cryosphere Stewardship. 🌎💧🫶 (1/2)

New paper out today from Durham Glaciology member Lauren Gill! Lauren's interdisciplinary PhD is exploring how processes and change in glacial environments impact the preservation and analysis of human remains. ❄️🌡️🦴 @geogdurham.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Taphonomic impact on human remains in rapidly changing glacial environments: current insights and future directions - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Glaciers worldwide are undergoing accelerated down-wasting and retreat due to a warming climate, increasingly leading to the melt-out and exposure of...

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Down at the APPG Polar Regions meeting at Westminster yesterday to discuss UK research in Greenland. Thanks to Kelly Hogan and George Freeman MP for the invite. @geogdurham.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

Find out more about the UNESCO World Day for Glaciers, and how to join events in-person or online for free at: www.un-glaciers.org/en/world-day... with more about Caroline's side-event at: www.un-glaciers.org/en/articles/...

World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 2026

UNESCO, WMO and the IYGP Community will celebrate the World Day for Glaciers and the World Water Day at UNESCO's Headquarters in Paris on 18-19 March 2026, closing the International Year of Glaciers' ...

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Caroline Clason@carolineclason.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm looking foward to heading to Paris next week to celebrate the World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 2026, with events taking place online and in-person at UNESCO HQ. I'll be speaking about resource security in a side event on 'Cryosphere in Crisis: Pathways for a Safe and Just Future' (1/3)

An @theconversation.com article on our recent paper on glacier surges, written with Chris Stokes @durhamglaciology.bsky.social: theconversation.com/some-glacier...

Some glaciers can suddenly surge forward – with dangerous consequences

A global study of 3,000 glaciers reveals the risks of surging ice in a warming world.

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We’re a leading centre for research into glaciers and ice sheets. Recently @carolineclason.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social co-authored a major report for the UK National Commission for @unesco.org on the effect of melting ice on people and planet 👉 bit.ly/4r51PMl

Our innovative and impactful research transforms lives and makes a difference, globally and locally. Discover more in our Global Research Newsletter 👉 mailchi.mp/96a54d0bd591... #DUresearch

It’s been a busy winter so far for us, with a selection of our activities recently highlighted in Durham University’s Global Research Newsletter: tinyurl.com/bdc88kk4 ❄️ Find out more about just some of what we’ve been up to across Arctic, Antarctic and mountain glacier regions! tinyurl.com/mshk3ute

Caroline will explore glacier change in regions like the Andes & Himalayas, and what communities can do to adapt to a rapidly warming world. 📅 Mon 26 Jan 2026 🕑 2–3pm 📍 TLC106 or Teams 👉 lnkd.in/e2_jSwzp A must‑attend for anyone interested in climate resilience and Earth’s disappearing ice.

🌍 IHRR Seminar Join us for Dr Caroline Clason’s talk on the risks of glacier decline and what shrinking “mountain water towers” mean for global water, energy, and food security. 💧 “Thousands have lived without love, but not one without water.”

Our first paper from the 'EPIC' project- 'How will Emperor Penguins Respond to Changing Ice Conditions?'🐧❄️ - is now out. 🎉 My first first-author penguin paper🐧! w co-authors @changingice.bsky.social, Chris Stokes, Melanie Marochov, @ptfretwell.bsky.social, Stéphanie Jenouvrier tinyurl.com/4635pdwh

Congratulations to Cameron Powell who won the postgraduate poster prize at last week's @quaternaryra.bsky.social ADM in Brighton! There was lots of Durham palaeoglaciology research on show, including work by @hollyjenk.bsky.social and Molly Gath. 👇❄️ durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/d...

📢 Excited to advertise a PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social and @ihrr.bsky.social generously funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation. There are ten projects to select from (two highlighted below), and the deadline is 6th February. Learn more at: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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...

Polar Medal for two Durham glacial geologists

We are delighted to announce that Professors Colm O’Cofaigh and Dave Roberts have been awarded the prestigious Polar Medal in the King’s New Year Honours list, which recognises outstanding achievem…

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@hollywytia.bsky.social has written a short, public-friendly blog post about her new paper in the Cryosphere about supraglacial (ice-surface) streams on Swiss glaciers. Learn more at the link below 👇 durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r...

Rivers on ice: understanding meltwater pathways on mountain glaciers

A new study led by Holly Wytiahlowsky of the Durham Glaciology Group has just been published, providing insight into glacier hydrology by producing the first inventory of supraglacial channels on m…

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Looking forward to co-chairing a new IACS Working Group on Cryosphere Stewardship. It aims to explore frameworks to address the diminishing cryosphere while strengthening coordinated action for its stewardship. We'll shortly be inviting the wider cryosphere community to join! ❄️ lnkd.in/eW4isT55

International Association of Cryospheric Sciences@iacscryo.bsky.social · 9mo ago

IACS is plased to announce two new working groups: -International classification of snow avalanches -Cryosphere Stewardship Read more in our December newsletter: cryosphericsciences.org/wp-content/u...

🚨 Interested in the form and variability of the supraglacial hydrological system? @hollywytia.bsky.social et al. explore the controls on channel distribution and characteristics on Swiss Alpine glaciers in a new paper hot off the press at The Cryosphere! ❄️ tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

Distribution and characteristics of supraglacial channels on mountain glaciers in Valais, Switzerland

Abstract. Supraglacial channels form a key component of glacier hydrology, transporting surface meltwater to englacial and proglacial positions, which impacts ice flow dynamics, surface mass balance a...

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Thinking about EGU 2026? Check out our session on "Impacts, risks and adaptation to a changing cryosphere"! We invite abstracts on a range of topics from cascading hazards to social and ecological impacts, resource security to environmental risk... 👇 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

@carolineclason.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social has co-authored a major new report from the UK National Commission for UNESCO looking at the consequences of melting ice on people and planet. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @cop30brazil.bsky.social

Research by Prof Chris Stokes @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social is part of a new report from the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative on the effect of climate on the world’s ice sheets. The report is presented at @cop30brazil.bsky.social 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Durham research informs report warning of dangerous acceleration of global ice loss - Durham University

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