Iconic St Kilda Pier in Melbourne, Australia

Super excited to see our new paper published today, led by @shahidyounis.bsky.social as part of his MSc work. We present the glacial and periglacial geomorphology of the Drang Drung, Haskira, and Pensilungpa glaciers in the Indian Himalayas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

❄️ 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. tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @heardislandgov.bsky.social @arcsaef.bsky.social

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!

🌏 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 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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 tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... 1/5 🧵

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... @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Australia is looking for someone to lead the Antarctic Division's Antarctic Climate program. Australian residents only, sorry. Closes May 12 dcceewjobs.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

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…

We (@andrewmackintosh.bsky.social, Rachael Lappan and I) were lucky to spend part of this week at Brewster Glacier, New Zealand. This trip was spent sampling recently exposed bedrock from surrounding & within a few hundred metres of the modern glacier. 1/2

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 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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? 👇

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. 🥳🥳🥳

Autumn coloured dog 🐕 🍁

Autumn in Melbourne, Australia

First post on BlueSky to mark the end of my Antarctic fieldwork in Queen Maud Land working with @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social and some other wonderful scientists at @arcsaef.bsky.social. Overall, trip was hugely successful, with some exciting science to come. 1/4

Welcome to the new Bluesky channel of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences!

Advice for the Marty McFlys out there… @jacquessch.bsky.social

Andy Tomkins (spacerockdoc.bsky.social) and I in Antarctica! Who is running the School??

Saying goodbye to Antarctica after a scientifically successful trip. Many thanks to Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future and White Desert for their exceptional support. @whitedeserttours.bsky.social arcsaef.com

Season’s Greetings from Santa’s sleigh 🎥 by Levan Tielidze

Congratulations to the amazing Dr Lauren Vargo for winning the @igsoc.bsky.social Early Career Scientist Award. Click here for further details bit.ly/49MORLq

We made it 😃

South!

From boulder to Beryllium. The journey of a glacially deposited #Antarctic rock destined for cosmogenic dating 🧊🪨✨. A whole lot of time in the lab, and no small amount of geochemical wizardry 🧙‍♂️. The past life of a glacier waiting to be uncovered.

Flowers of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

Ready to depart for Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, where we will join a team of #SAEF Biologists. @monashuniversity.bsky.social @utas.edu.au

The gear required to support one Antarctic glaciologiy trip… #SAEF @monashuniversity.bsky.social @utas.edu.au

Stationary cloud over Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. Getting ready to deploy to Antarctica with the amazing SAEF programme & White Desert arcsaef.com white-desert.com

Come and work with us in Australia! 😱🕷️

@katehelmstedt.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-are-boys...

We host an annual awards night in the School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment to celebrate the achievements of our students and early career researchers. It’s genuinely my favourite event of the year @monashuniversity.bsky.social Thanks @melaniefinch.bsky.social our guest speaker this year!

Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Red River Gum) in our neighbourhood Lost a branch in a recent storm Love the vibrant red colours and rings in this centuries-old wood

Happy #AntarcticaDay: December 1st is the anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. The Environmental Protocol, in Article 2, designates Antarctica as ” a natural reserve, devoted to #peace and #science.” Let’s keep it that way!

Celebrating Antarctica Day by …packing for Antarctica. Thanks to the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative ‘Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future’ for this opportunity. arcsaef.com

End of an era today with the retirement of Professor Michael Reeder. What a contribution he has made to @monashuniversity.bsky.social and the wider community! 📸 with his long-term collaborator and friend, Professor Christian Jakob.

What a great group ❤️ such a pleasure to work with you all!

We started glaciology @monashuniversity.bsky.social in 2020 - myself, @fsmccormack.bsky.social & @rsjones.bsky.social Look at us now! 📸 from our meeting today, with visiting speakers Tyler Pelle & Fakhra Muneeb. Also 🧁 saying goodbye to Indigo McKinnon & offering best wishes to Johanna Beckmann

I’m lucky to part of this group, with a project funded for cross-disciplinary (glacier-biodiversity) work with Steven Chown, @justineshaw.bsky.social Regine Hock and @iceybethan.bsky.social My thoughts are also with those who were unsuccessful. www.monash.edu/science/news...

You hear about our successes a lot on here, but I don't talk enough about the rejections. As of today, 10 out of the 12 grants members of our lab put in this year didn't get up. Most grants were led by early-career researchers in/with our team as a way for them to lead independent programs. 1/3

🌊🇦🇶Richard Jones talking about the contribution of Antarctic ice sheet to sea level rise. Poorly known - IPCC. Historical satellite data show it is mostly west Antarctica. need longer and more regional records. Can we use spatial and temporal global sea level changes to model the contribution?

🌊🇦🇶Jacinda O’Connor exploring sea level change in coastal sediment records around Shackleton Ice Shelf and Denman, east Antarctica.