Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊
@glaciocook.bsky.social
Research & teaching on Glaciers, Geohazards, Geomorphology, Climate Change at University of Dundee | https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/simon-cook
❄️🌊 NEW PAPER: Transboundary outburst floods from giant supraglacial lakes over the Himalayan China–Nepal border. Published in Advances in Climate Change Research In July 2025 two giant supraglacial lakes drained across the China-Nepal border. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️
Interviewed yesterday on @bbc5live.bsky.social about glacier shrinkage in the Pamir mountains, central Asia. An area that, up to just a few years ago, had been characterised by relative glacier stability and even growth ❄️🤒 Even these last stalwarts now falling in line with global trend of shrinkage
Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊@glaciocook.bsky.social · 2mo ago📻🎙️I’ll be on BBC 5 Live just after 13:30 today talking to Naga Munchetty and Chris Smith about the recent reversal in fortunes of glaciers in the Pamir Mountains as reported in this recent paper: lnkd.in/evhZ3nvj and this New Scientist article: lnkd.in/e6Qk_kJH
This was delayed and will now happen Tuesday 9th June sometime after 13:30
Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊@glaciocook.bsky.social · 2mo ago📻🎙️I’ll be on BBC 5 Live just after 13:30 today talking to Naga Munchetty and Chris Smith about the recent reversal in fortunes of glaciers in the Pamir Mountains as reported in this recent paper: lnkd.in/evhZ3nvj and this New Scientist article: lnkd.in/e6Qk_kJH
📻🎙️I’ll be on BBC 5 Live just after 13:30 today talking to Naga Munchetty and Chris Smith about the recent reversal in fortunes of glaciers in the Pamir Mountains as reported in this recent paper: lnkd.in/evhZ3nvj and this New Scientist article: lnkd.in/e6Qk_kJH
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“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this roundabout on the edge of Cheadle” William Shakespeare
After two field expeditions and one year in the making, very pleased to share my second paper from my PhD is now published! ⛰️ We obtained the first dataset of ice-contact lake physical conditions in the Himalaya throughout the critical monsoon and glacier melt season ⬇️ doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Monsoon and Glacial Meltwater Input Drive Seasonal Cooling of a Himalayan Ice‐Contact Lake
Lake surface temperatures exceeded 9°C at the surface, and were consistently warmer close to the glacier front, driven by convection Monsoon-specific meteorological conditions and input of glacia...
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University and College Union (UCU) Scotland say Dundee is the "canary in the coal mine" of a jobs crisis.
Dundee University union demands emergency funding package as staff begin strike
University and College Union (UCU) Scotland say Dundee is the "canary in the coal mine" of a jobs crisis.
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🏔️❄️New book chapter on GLACIAL HAZARDS now published in ‘Comprehensive Cryospheric Science and Environmental Change’. Covers paraglacial landslides, permafrost degradation, ice &snow avalanches, glacier detachments, GLOFs, ice-volcano interactions Full: lnkd.in/eGtqQf8H Pre-print: lnkd.in/ek59Swfu
Lots of dune erosion and slumping at Lunan Bay, east Scotland, after what can be described as ‘pants’ weather recently. 6 y.o. for scale. #coast #landslide #beach #dune
Trump should return to his Scottish roots and take my Polar Environments course @dundeeuni.bsky.social 🐧 The penguin is even our university mascot…because of Dundee’s links to ANTARCTICA
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 6mo agoThere are many serious governments in the world. The US is not one of them. (There are no penguins in Greenland.)
❄️ 💧 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 (1/2)
High frequency of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) driven by global warming Overall, the long-term trajectory of reported GLOF frequency closely parallels variations in global air temperature, exhibiting a lag-correlated pattern on timescales of ~20 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming - Nature Communications
The study presents an updated global inventory of glacial lake outburst floods, revealing a sharp rise in event frequency since the 1980s and a strong delayed link to climate warming, highlighting gro...
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🏔️NEW in @natcomms.nature.com: “High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming” www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤔There’s been lots of uncertainty about whether the number of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) has increased, decreased or flatlined in recent decades
📘 New paper: Post-Little Ice Age Shrinkage of the Tsaneri–Nageba Glacier System and Recent Proglacial Lake Evolution in the Georgian Caucasus 📉Glacier shrank ~43% since ~1820 🌊Lake grew from ~14,000m² in 2015 to ~107,900 m² 2025 ⚠️Hazard + water resources implications www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...
Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike. On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible. Support our action to save jobs and save the University! #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity
These low-angle glacier detachments are, mercifully, rare, but can be incredibly destructive. Good review here, though several events since it was published in 2021: tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/...
Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers – more frequent than thought?
Abstract. The detachment of large parts of low-angle mountain glaciers resulting in massive ice–rock avalanches have so far been believed to be a unique type of event, made known to the global scienti...
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Melaine Le Roy@subfossilguy.bsky.social · 9mo agoUTTERLY 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! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1
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! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1
Random thought. Thailand could pass for a glacier. Nice wide accumulation zone (though struggling in the mid section)
Storm Amy has been record breaking ⚠️ An air pressure of 947.9 hPa was recorded at Baltasound, Shetland, provisionally setting a new UK lowest pressure record for October. Northern Ireland provisionally recorded its strongest October wind gust on record, with a gust of 92 mph at Magilligan.
🏔️❄️New paper: “Multi-temporal DEMs used to quantify the geomorphological impact of a late 20th century glacier re-advance at Schwarzberggletscher, Switzerland”. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #glaciers #climatechange #sfm #geomorphology
Left high and dry, this former glacial meltwater channel was carved into the Sidlaw Hills just north of Dundee by the last ice sheet to occupy this region ~20,000 years ago. It’s one of several that i’ve been mapping with students & colleagues over the last couple of years.
Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK. The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK
Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
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The extent of the deposit from the Birch Glacier collapse over Blatten as seen by newly available high-resolution satellite imagery collected by Maxar! 🛰️ Processed by @wxnb.bsky.social
First heli inspection of what remains of Blatten yesterday evening... 🚁😱🌊 SHOCKING! Few buildings left are flooded Little debris flow run through the deposit Look at the height reached on the counterslope! 😮 🎥 Pomona
On 28 May 2025, the Birch Glacier in Switzerland catastrophically failed, generating a massive landslide that has partially buried Blatten. So what happens next? eos.org/thelandslide...
