Our new paper is out in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social finally wrapping up a 2022 Svalbard season! Looking at microbial communities in different landforms and glacier types. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

We have a new preprint out reviewing the monitoring & detection of Svalbard surging glaciers: eartharxiv.org/repository/v... We also compiled a new database of Svalbard's surge-type glaciers: zenodo.org/records/1524... @dannipearce.bsky.social @hazlovell.bsky.social @adrianluckman.bsky.social

How can zombie microbes interact with the Earth system? 🦠🧟🌎 Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎 In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Peruvian scientist, conservationist, and National Geographic Explorer, Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, will give a public lecture about her work in the Amazon Rainforest. 📅 13 May 2025 ⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm 📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle 💡 Discover more and register FREE here:

Happy #WorldPenguinDay! 🐧🪶 Today we’re celebrating our favourite Antarctic co-workers. From curious onlookers near our research stations to the subjects of vital ecosystems studies, these charismatic birds are the true icons of Antarctica.

📣 The #Goldschmidt2025 conference program is now available! The schedule of sessions & presentations is now online. To plan your week, browse the program by theme: buff.ly/1zvFrpU or per day: buff.ly/8RQwc8M Remember the presenter & early registration deadline is 21 May.

Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right? No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bas.ac.uk

"In daily life I meet people who ask me if the Arctic is actually changing," says Iain Rudkin, Arctic Operations Manager for the British Antarctic Survey. "I wish they could see how much it's lost so quickly." www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I have worked with the Global Glacier Casualty list to add two new stories this week on Darwin Glacier, Sierra Nevada of California and Ice Worm Glacier, North Cascades, Washington. Darwin Glacier was lost in 2022 and Ice Wrom Glacier in 2023. glaciercasualtylist.rice.edu

📢 6-month paid Masters internship available with me and @reymourot.bsky.social Investigating Microbial Dormancy Responses to Stress Cycles in the Cryosphere ❄️🦠🧬😴🌡️ Join us in beautiful Marseille @mioceanologie.bsky.social ☀️🌊⛰️🇫🇷 #ERC_SIESTA Apply by 15 April RT Link 👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/329851

⚠️ Daily average atmospheric #CarbonDioxide levels have exceeded 430ppm for the first time since records began, and likely for the first time in at least 3 million years according to @iccinet.bsky.social: pml.ac.uk/news/a-stark...

Deadline is today to submit to our @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social session on biogeochemical processes in extreme environments!

Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪 landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

Proud to have contributed to the @royalsociety.org STEM Research Career roadmap yourstemcareerpath.royalsociety.org which celebrates diverse pathways into stem, changing sectors and disciplines etc.

This Research Fellow post @northumbriauni.bsky.social is closing for applications this week! Deadline 19/2/25 Love Earth Observation research?🛰️ Don't miss out! Apply now 👇

Three-dimensional maps of glacier surfaces across Greenland reveal that cracks are growing rapidly where land ice meets the sea — and climate change is to blame https://go.nature.com/419xEck

I'm giving a talk at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social seminar series on best practice interventions for fieldwork focusing on toileting outdoors, menstruation and safeguarding - free tickets can be found here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... We'll be recording the talk too!

A new iceberg, ~30x14 km in size, recently calved from the southern end of the George VI Ice Shelf. It's called A84 and is already making quite an impact, bumping into the Stange Ice Shelf over the weekend! These Copernicus Sentinel-1 images from Polar View show the new berg over the last few days.

The #Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change.  Research led by @tomchudley.bsky.social from @geogdurham.bsky.social found crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth in just five years 👉 bit.ly/4aKE8l7 @leverhulme.bsky.social #DUresearch

A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID

We are running a session at Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague this July on biogeochemical processes in extreme environments. Abstract submissions are open until Feb 26th and we are particularly interested in seeing work re: #polarscience #polarchemistry and #polarmicrobiology

Multi-day, tuition-FREE expeditions for high school girls* blending science, art, and backcountry travel 🏔️ inspiringgirls.org/apply 📅 Deadlines: Girls* on Ice Canada - 2/7 Girls* on Rock & Girls* in Icy Fjords - 2/9 Girls* on Ice Switzerland & Girls* on Ice Austria - 2/14 Girls* on Ice Alaska - 3/2

Research led by our own @tomchudley.bsky.social has found that crevasses on Greenland Ice Sheet are increasing in size & depth – and may cause more rapid loss of ice from the region. Read more about Tom's work here: tinyurl.com/3mms3wau

Beautiful Sentinel-2 imagery of George VI Ice Shelf with lots of meltwater from yesterday. The patterns that this water produces is like artwork! Fossil Bluff is shown in the second image, and Hodgson Lake shown in the last - a former subglacial lake sealed under ice thick perennial ice ❄️

Some favourite penguins for #penguinawarenessday though I think some are more aware than others. Looking forward to getting back south to the penguins soon.

❄️It's that time of year again!❄️ The Antarctic Science International Bursary is open for applications! £6000 bursaries available to ECRs anywhere in the world for #Antarctic science projects that extend the scope of current work. Deadline 21 March antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an...

Unbeatable snow days in Northumberland - though I fear the last of the season 😔

Full article for @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

If you're based in the North East come and hear me talk about all things Arctic and Antarctic at the Lit and Phil in Newcastle on the 27th ❄️🐻‍❄️🐧 www.litandphil.org.uk/event/inspir...

Really thoughtful and inspiring EDI session at QRA ADM. So important that we have these conversations, thanks to @iceybethan.bsky.social @proftashabarlow.bsky.social Martin Siegert, Clare Warren, Rebecca McCerery @quaternaryra.bsky.social

Looking forward to presenting some mapping work done in Svalbard at the AGI/USGS ECR webinar - promising lots of landforms and muddy fieldwork 🧊 from my fav place on Earth