📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University! 👉"What controls ice flow across Palmer and Ellsworth Lands, Antarctica?" This project will use remote sensing datasets to examine the controls on past, present and future ice flow in Antarctica. More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University! 👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores". This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat. More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Buried beneath Storegga is an even larger submarine megaslide - the Stad Slide! Bridget Tiller’s new paper (the first of her PhD) reveals the vast extent of this slide, discusses its possible causes, and considers whether it could have caused a tsunami 🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sun, sea and Physical Geography! We’re soaking up the rays on our Geography undergrad field trip to County Donegal, Ireland @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Here we share advice and reflections on organising an academic conference. The winning formula? Good science + good colleagues + good food!

Thank you to everyone who attended the QRA conference this week. Particular thanks to all our panelists and presenters, and to everyone at Newcastle Physical Geography who helped to organise! Pic is the icebreaker in the calm before the storm… @quaternaryra.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Coming to the QRA conference at Newcastle Uni in January? Early bird reduced registration is only available until Saturday! Register now at: sites.google.com/view/qraadm2... @quaternaryra.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social