Owen King
@owenking.bsky.social
Glacier botherer, skier, runner and owner of old dog.
Tonga's Sipi Tau coming up against the All Blacks Haka at St James's Park in 2015 remains the coolest sports thing I've witnessed first hand. Ma'a Nonu Vs the Haka would run it bloomin' close though... youtube.com/shorts/iCwj9...
Ma’a Nonu Faces the All Blacks Haka 🔥
YouTube video by All Blacks
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In no way does it balance the scales of recent times, but the Central Andes are having an actual winter at last. Local pro skiers (Adrià Millan) are having a lot of fun with it. www.instagram.com/reel/DbqlXNy...
Keo are going to release one hell of an album on 25th September. This is very, very good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQUI...
Keo - Pistol (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Keo
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Many more people in universities will lose their jobs if nothing changes in the way HE is (under) funded. Even more prospective students will not be able to go to university, especially here in the Norheast. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @markfergusonmp.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social
It is a delight to launch our Greenland Connection resources! These tell the hidden stories and histories of the UK-led exploration of Greenland. www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and...
The Greenland Connection: decolonising UK-Greenland exploration - AntarcticGlaciers.org
The Greenland Connection is a project funded by the NERC Arctic Office, which aims to illustrate the diversity of people involved in UK-led explorations to Greenland. The Greenland Connection comprise...
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Very happy to share the first paper of my PhD, out now in @commsearth.nature.com! Looking across the Greenland Ice Sheet, we found that glaciers flowing into lakes are up to 3.3 times faster than glaciers terminating on land 🧊 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Ice-marginal proglacial lakes enhance outlet glacier velocities across Greenland - Communications Earth & Environment
Lake-terminating glaciers across Greenland flow more rapidly at their termini, with 44% showing down-ice accelerations, and with greater accelerations associated with larger lakes, according to analys...
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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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Today's coffee stop, on The Stuic, looking to Lochnagar. It's bonkers how much snow is bulging in the distance, above the coire. Difficult to gauge scale but that drooping tongue of snow is still more than 1.5km away! There were two walkers passing above it but you can't see them, they're so small.
A new global synthesis of glacier surging is out now in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/e3BIH We explore: - the diversity in surge behaviour - mechanisms responsible for surging - controls on surge-type glacier distribution - surge hazards - climate change impacts on surging
Glacier surging and surge-related hazards in a changing climate
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Glacier surges are rapid ice flow acceleration and mass transport events, which can threaten nearby communities, infrastructure and habitats. This Review...
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***Our review paper on glacier surging is out!*** Lovell H, Benn DI, Jiskoot H and 12 others (2026) “Glacier surging and surge-related hazards in a changing climate.” Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 7(2). doi.org/10.1038/s430... @hazlovell.bsky.social #cryosphere #glaciology #science #glaciers
Glacier surging and surge-related hazards in a changing climate - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Glacier surges are rapid ice flow acceleration and mass transport events, which can threaten nearby communities, infrastructure and habitats. This Review discusses the global distribution, behaviour a...
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Our new study documents glacier loss in the Himalaya accelerating since 2003. Annual ice losses are consistent with those projected under the high emissions scenario. This is impactful, but not joyful, science led by Javed Hassan (DTU). ⤵️ Open-access article: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...
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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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When we first came across Suyuparina Glacier in the field a couple of years ago its potholed surface and irregular margin caught our eye. Some of it's neighbours looked similarly chewed, some didn't. We've had a closer look at what's going on in this new paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
As scientists 🧪 who regularly attend UN #climate summits, we've noticed efforts to downplay, confuse and dilute the latest scientific findings, especially from the cryosphere ❄️. This is alarming. More details in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/earths-froze... @geogdurham.bsky.social
Earth’s frozen regions are sending a clear warning about climate change – but politicians are ignoring it
The warning lights from the cryosphere have been flashing red for several years and governments and policymakers ignore this at their peril.
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⬇️ LAUNCHED TODAY ⬇️ State of the Cryosphere Report 2025 Over 50 leading cryosphere scientists warn that current climate commitments, leading the world to well over 2°C, spell disaster for billions from global ice loss – but that damage can still be prevented. Read here: iccinet.org/statecryo25/
Fantastic to see our colleagues Professor Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social and Dr Owen King contributing to UNESCO & WMO’s new volume Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes! www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
Newcastle scientists contribute to UNESCO glacier loss report
Scientists from Newcastle University have contributed to a major new international report highlighting accelerating decline of glaciers and ice sheets and the consequences for people and the planet.
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I'm delighted to inform you that teens are still playing The Game. Also, since it's likely been a while, you just lost The Game.
Some amazing information about Andrzej Bargiels O2less ski descent of Everest here. Also talks of big changes in his 13 years on the mountain and increasing risk in a warmer world. Yikes. explorersweb.com/andrzej-barg...
Andrzej Bargiel Describes How He Skied Down Everest » Explorersweb
Until now, we knew very little about the strategy the Polish skier used to ski down Everest without bottled oxygen. Here's his detailed account.
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Fab week in Innsbruck featuring some light International Mountain Conferencing and a bit more ice creaming and exploring.
My tallest sunflower got too big for its very tiny boots. 6ft 4 me for scale.
The #Glacier Loss Day is reached in Switzerland! From now on all melt that occurs on glaciers until October is unsustainable. This tipping point has only been reached so early in the record-shattering year 2022. Expect big ice loss due to the prolonged melt season and feedback effects
A very pretty satellite image taken over the South Patagonian Icefield in 1973. Apparently I am not allowed to set this as my desktop background for university IT reasons, so here you go Bluesky.
So NERC have quietly announced this afternoon that they're delaying/cancelling/suspending, whatever 'not launched at this time' means, their 2025 Independent Research Fellowship round. After announcing it 34 days ago. Flip-flopping like this is really detrimental to early career researchers.
Inspired by many, many viewings with my kids, I wrote something for @uk.theconversation.com that imagines how the Arendelle glacier in Disney's Frozen might look after 200 years of climate change: theconversation.com/frozen-thawe...
Frozen, thawed: how Arendelle’s glacier would fare under modern climate change
A glaciologist investigates a Disney classic.
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Is it hot right now in the UK? New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal. istheukhotrightnow.com Built by @roostweather.bsky.social.
