Hey! My first post! Dpnt forget to sign up for the QRA ADM hosted by the Universoty of Brighton. Abstract deadline 17th November sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...

From Chamonix to the Mer de Glace (Géant seracs) with raw LiDAR data from IGN viewed with PurpleGeo 😲 🤩 6 Billions of points. Zero textures Raw LiDAR, instantly understandable. Source: Alex Ferrier

Holy moly - this glacier detachment in Tajikistan is WILD. It appears that there was a large piece of glacier ice much farther down the valley from a first detachment which then got pushed by a second soon thereafter. 🧵@planet.com @davepetley.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

I am very happy to advertise this PhD focusing on groundwater flooding, with partners at @bgs.ac.uk and plenty of applied and industry partnerships! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

“Some time after sunrise, maybe 10 a.m., the water receded…we could see the impression in the tundra where the boardwalk used to be — it had floated about eight feet over.” A really important read about the typhoon, Indigenous displacement from climate, & survival 🗃️ www.kyuk.org/arts-culture...

Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...

First newsletter published! simple.ghost.io/what-seems-t... If you like this sort of thing, sign up for more

Excited to advertise a new interdisciplinary PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social - "From ice to ecosystem: assessing the risk of glacier melt and legacy contamination for reindeer in Sápmi (Lapland)" ❄️ 🦌 To learn more about the project and how to apply visit: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Hello BlueSky! 👋 We are thrilled to be here and connect with everyone on this new platform! Interested in Quaternary science in the Nordics? Then follow us for news/opportunities/jobs, and more. Our network is also free to join at nordqua.org

Not about the archaeology or the former “green corridors”, but for anyone who is interested in the wonderful #NamibSandSea #desert #drylands heres a short 🎦 for you… youtu.be/AFSbln9uN-4?... @uomseed.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

Just now: Large slide in sensitive marine clays in Mid-Norway sweeps away the main E6 road and the railway. One person still missing. Image by Johan Arnt Nesgård, Trønder-Avisa.

Gloomy tourism by TikTokers among the fresh GLOF deposits of the Ghizer Valley! 😲 Via Araib Ali Baig

Satellite images reveal how a subglacial lake erupted through the Greenland ice sheet – a phenomenon never witnessed before which could be driven by rising temperatures.

Part of the Point Beach beach ridge complex, at two different scales. Not happy with the color scheme but something like this has potential, if I had the time to work on it. Data from USGS via @opentopography.org

Join us for the Sea Level and Coastal Change @slacc-qra.bsky.social conference from 8-10th September hosted by @uoyenvironment.bsky.social. Submit abstracts here forms.gle/tDxUpGK4QeYW... and register at store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...

SAVE THE DATE!! 5-8 Jan 2026 QRA Annual Discussion Meeting: “The Quaternary - Past Human and Environment Dynamics” at University of Brighton. Website and registration coming soon!! @quaternaryra.bsky.social

Placing Ireland's lakes on the international stage as a critical resource responding to a changing world - #Lakes in #Ireland - Mirrors of Change" eds. @cathdalt.bsky.social @edeeyto.bsky.social & Eleanor Jennings Read my #bookreview The Niche @britishecologicalsociety.org #limnology #research 🇮🇪

Today's walk was along the Ystwyth Trail, Llanilar to the bandstand in Aber. 13.5 miles this week, walking 60 miles in June to support pancreatic cancer research. Thinking of special friends all the way. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Please sign this petition to argue against compulsory redundancies at Newcastle University. chng.it/GxZdqW8xKv

BEFORE / AFTER Birch glacier collapse 😮😱 There WAS a glacier here! 🧊 Not only the front, but the entire ice mass has slid down the valley! 🌊 Glad Alain Amherd took two pics with the same angle! 📷🙏

Absolutely stunning frontal views of the entire path of the #Blatten event! 😮 Numerous debris flow run through the avalanche fan! 🌊 Shot by @ABettmeralp in early afternoon 🙏

Here is a factsheet on what is currently known about Birchgletscher, the Swiss glacier that catastrophically collapsed on 28 May 2025, following heavy debris loading from Kleines Nesthorn. Our thoughts are with all those most deeply affected. polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...

FACTSHEET about Birch Glacier collapse by glaciologists of ETHZ @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social 🧊❄️ Don't miss that read! 🙏 polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/... 📷 Pomona

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

Video of the collapse occurring in the link - thanks, Melanie!

SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱 All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊 Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠 📷 Pomona

Update of the Klein Nesthorn landlside after the night, with close up view of the scar at the top of the NW face! 😱 Credit: Pomona

INSANE !! 😱 Evolution of the upper NW face of Klein Nesthorn this afternoon (2:00 to 6:40 pm) The whole mountain is collapsing... 🏔️❄️🧊 www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/droh...

RIP Paul Durcan - a really incredible poet, simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreaking

Now available to buy at www.qra.org.uk ….

Now available to buy at www.qra.org.uk ….

📣 REMINDER 📣 We're advertising for a PhD position "Constraining the Behaviour of the British-Irish Ice Sheet over Multiple Glacial Cycles" with myself and @remyveness.bsky.social. I'd strongly encourage potential applicants to contact me before applying. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Delighted to share my upcoming book in the @yalebooks.bsky.social Little Histories Series: “A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs” yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 23-09-25

Here is the research article (that mine comments on) by Kavan et al.: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

❄️ ⛱️ 🌊 NEW ARTICLE out today in Nature Climate Change: ‘Glaciers give way to new coasts’ This ‘News & Views’ article coincides with the UN International Day of Glacier Preservation. Arctic glacier recession has revealed ~2500 km of new coastline since the year 2000. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1.2 million years - have you heard of ice this old?! 🧊 These ice cores were retrieved as part of the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project, which aims to unlock crucial insights into Earth's past climate and atmospheric conditions #ice #climate Read the full story 👇 www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

This is a fantastic resource, highlighting differences in terminology between disciplines to help us all work together better.

To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay we asked some women in quaternary science: "What sparked your interst in climate science?" Here are their responses....🧵1/6

On Friday morning a small airplane crashed on Mer de Glace accumulation area (Géant Glacier) in the Gros Rognon sector (~3500 m). Two people were slightly injured. Two days later it became a freestyle spot! 🙃🤩🏂 Let's hope it doesn't stay there 🚮 🎥 Gaspard Ravanel / IG

Early career academic? Looking for an exciting challenge? We have a whopping FIVE Assistant Professor positions open for application! Please visit here for more information: www.tcd.ie/naturalscien... The deadline for all applications is March 24th. Please circulate within your networks! Thanks.

Job Alert! Permanent Lecturer in Physical Geography (Teaching & Research), specialising in peatland science. Come join our Department of Geography at The University of Manchester! Deadline 27 March 2025 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Peatland and peatland-adjacent researchers take note - my place is hiring a Lecturer in Physical Geography (Research & Teaching position, NOT fixed term). Apply by 27 March 2025. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Fichtner et al present the results of seismic measurements from the EastGRIP borehole in Greenland. Earthquakes that were measured in the core reveal brittle deformation mechanisms that are not accounted for in the most commonly used ice flow law, Glen's Flow Law. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Heinrich “Stadial” 1 deglaciation of Connemara, Ireland. Excellent work as always from Adrienne Foreman, @gordonbromley.bsky.social, and their team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⚒️🧪 Registration & abstract submission for the @igsoc.bsky.social Symposium on Ice Streams & Outlet Glaciers, hosted at @geogdurham.bsky.social from 21st-25th July 2025, is now open! ❄️ Abstracts can be submitted until 24th March & registration is open until 5th May: pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...

And if you don't believe me (because this is the only #lidarday post on bluesky) see here lidarday.com

Having just discovered that it is #WorldLidarDay (thanks to @watershedlab.bsky.social), I'm celebrating with a hillshaded DEM of the Clara Esker (part of the Eiscir Riada), central Ireland, formed between two ice lobes during ice retreat. Other glacial features in the image are.....1/2

Trá Mhaighrois, #IorrasAithneach #Conamara