❄️🌊 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...

New paper out in QSR 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We establish Younger Dryas and Tapes sea level transgressions of 5-9 and ~10 m, respectively, in southern Norway. The YD sea level transgression and highstand reflect the glacial readvance and subsequent stillstand during the Stadial.

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Making eDNA more digestible: A pizza analogy for understanding false negatives and occupancy modeling

Abstract. Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing from water samples has emerged as a promising and cost-effective approach to collect comprehensive freshwater

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In the depths of polar winter, our Antarctic teams have been quietly preparing for World Cup glory. England and Scotland – the reinforcements are ready ⚽ Far from home. With you in spirit. Good luck from the bottom of the world! #FifaWorldCup2026 #Antarctica

🚨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. 🧪⚒️

📻🎙️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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A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

How could you not love geomorphology? 🏔️🧊🤍 Here's a perfect alpine glacier forefield, featuring: - the 1980s moraine (last glacier advance), - the 1920s/1890s doublet-that crosscuts-meaning fairly similar extents - the LIA maxima, with 1850 in violet. (length along flowline ~900 m) 📷 LiDAR HD IGN

Who wants to see how 81 different census variables correlate with this May's local election results? Of course you do: www.datawrapper.de/_/avuui/?v=4

Local elections 2025: aggregate-level correlations | Created with Datawrapper

Pearson correlation coefficients between aggregate-level census data and the 2025 local election vote share of each party, for the electoral ward or County Electoral District.

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Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

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

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...

IGS Global Seminar: Harold Lovell | March 25

Topic: Glacier surges and surge hazards in a changing climate Speaker: Harold Lovell Institution: University of Portsmouth Zoom link to join.

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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

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...

Ice Sheets of North America - AntarcticGlaciers.org

During the Quaternary Period, North America was covered by three ice sheets: the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Laurentide Ice Sheet and Innuitian Ice Sheet. During the last glacial cycle, these ice sheets we...

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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...

Frontiers | The Antarctic Peninsula under present day climate and future low, medium-high and very high emissions scenarios

The Antarctic Peninsula is warming rapidly, with more frequent extreme temperature and precipitation events, reduced sea ice, glacier retreat, ice shelf coll...

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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

Palaeoglacier reconstruction and dynamics of Cordillera Vilcanota in the tropical high Peruvian Andes

We provide a geomorphological analysis of Cordillera Vilcanota and use morphostratigraphic principles to reconstruct palaeo icefield extent and palaeoglacier readvances, likely during the Antarctic ...

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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...

❄️ 💧 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)

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!

Flow‐pattern evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet indicated by the subglacial lineation record over Norway, Sweden and Finland

We present a 25-stage reconstruction of the ice-flow pattern evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet based on mapping and analysis of ~240 000 subglacial lineations and lineation fields across Norway...

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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