Looking for postdoc positions in the UK studying weather extremes? Two jobs with deadline 4th Jan: Historical windstorms, working with two insurance companies: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Storylines of extreme events, as part of a European collaboration: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

22-month postdoctoral position in the Durham Geography department working on Alaska paleogeodesy as part of NERC/NSF funded grant. More details here, application deadline is January 8th: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

22-month postdoctoral position in the Durham Geography department working on Alaska paleogeodesy as part of NERC/NSF funded grant. More details here, application deadline is January 8th: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Job opportunity - Postdoctoral Research Associate working alongside @sealevelchange.bsky.social - Job Description - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Physical Geography (25001689) closing date 11:59pm 8th January 2025

Our colleague Chris Stokes is currently at COP30 sharing some of the science around ice sheets and sea level rise, including a recent paper from earlier this year: www.nature.com/articles/s43... Here he is with an update and a few words on what he's been up to....

A great few days of outreach activity at the Celebrate Science event at Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham. Pictured here are Lauren Pretorius and @sealevelchange.bsky.social who kindly staffed our augmented reality sand box.

Congratulations to Olivia Griffin Roach who has been announced as the joint winner of the 2025 Social & Cultural Geography Research Group dissertation prize for her project 'Beyond the Bump: Understanding How Women Experience and Navigate Pregnancy & Early Motherhood in the Financial Service Sector'

The Geographical Magazine of the RGS-IBG has just published a supplement on choosing University Geography courses. Two of the five 'case study' students are from Durham - Mia Yearwood and Cameron Powell. They provide some valuable insights on what its like to study on our BA and BSc programmes.

We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6 #geosky

A preprint describing our concerns with Voortman and De Vos posted here:

So I & 14 colleagues (incl. @richardtol.bsky.social @vsrikrish.bsky.social @goneri76.bsky.social) wrote an expression of concern, laying out the problems with the paper and calling for its retraction. We first provide scientific context, and the paper's failure to engage with related studies. 2/

I had an engagement with blogger, failed California gubernatorial candidate, and self-identified reporter Michael Shellenberger this past week, which started out being about this new paper being heralded by climate skeptics as disproving global sea-level acceleration. (LONG 🧵)

The UK just had its warmest spring on record. It was also the sunniest on record. And the driest in more than 50 years. "A sign of our changing climate", says @metoffice.bsky.social www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Durham Geography @geogdurham.bsky.social is looking to appoint an Associate Professor in the field of Heritage Landscapes and/or Social Justice and Wellbeing in heritage. Happy to answer questions. Please share widely #geography #heritage #universityjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH544/a...

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.

Chris's work has also featured in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

USGS research has uncovered a 700-year sequence of major earthquakes in the eastern Aleutian Islands through tsunami evidence and modeling. This work enhances our understanding of seismic hazards in the region. 🌋⚒️🧪 #Seismology #TsunamiResearch #AleutianIslands #EarthquakePreparedness

Our Cascadia earthquake-driven subsidence and sea-level rise paper is featured in a PNAS "In This Issue" highlight. doi.org/10.1073/iti1.... There's a pug and cat on the cover of the issue so that's also cool 😺 And check out the paper here! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨New Study Alert!🚨 Our new PNAS study shows how earthquake-driven land subsidence + rising seas = major flood hazards along the Cascadia subduction zone. 🌊🌎 @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social (1/🧵) www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

3-year postdoc here in Geography at Durham working on sand extraction with Dr. Laura Schoenberger: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

March 27, 1964 - a M9.2 subduction #earthquake struck southern #Alaska. Shaking was felt across much of #BritishColumbia and Yukon and the resulting #tsunami caused damage in some coastal BC communities. More (USGS): earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... Video: youtube.com/watch?v=L6TB... ⚒️🧪🌊

Our colleague Jonathan Darling gave evidence at the Home Affairs Committee on how the current model of asylum accommodation is failing, offering poor value for money to the taxpayer, inadequate shelter to those in need, and a lack of considered and sustained engagement with communities.

Congratulations to our recent graduate George Buckland whose dissertation was awarded first place by the Urban Geography Research Group. George's dissertation was entitled 'The gaybourhood never sleeps: Mapping the intergenerational (re)configurations of queer urban space (Manchester’s Gay Village).

Are you a PhD or Masters student in Paleoclimate looking to learn and network with your community? Excited to announce that applications to USSP 2025 are now open until 6th March. 🦖⚛️🪨🌊🔬🧑🏽‍💻 Please share! 🤩

Today’s #MisconceptionMonday is a little bit outside of my normal discourse, but I’m gonna go with it. Today is the anniversary of the idea of Continental Drift, so we’re going to discuss some misunderstandings around how science progresses. 1/n (long, as usual)

🔥New paper alert!🔥 We show that ice near Thwaites Glacier was thicker 1.4 kyr ago, which fits West Antarctica growing in the Common Era. Led by @cosmokeir.bsky.social, with key work from @radatmines.bsky.social, @mmglacialgeo.bsky.social, @geologicaljo.bsky.social, @stever60.bsky.social, + more. 🧵

🔥New paper alert! 🔥 Jacky Austermann and I show that simultaneous Antarctic collapse + Laurentide persistence during the Last Interglacial (130,000 - 115,000 years ago) could explain the local sea level oscillation observed in the Bahamas, Seychelles, Australia, and elsewhere. tinyurl.com/yjj7w2mr 🧵

A great opportunity at a fantastic department - Assistant Professor in Physical Geography @geogdurham.bsky.social. We are looking for candidates with expertise in ice sheets and glaciers that will complement and extend our current work. Closing date 12th January.❄️⚒️🧪 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Enjoying the mix of obstacles, geomorphology and water at the 64th running of the Blyth Sands race

We all know that for many years, many people with great ideas and potential have faced barriers to entering science (economic/class/ethnicity). If you are from a historically disadvantaged group, there is an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social scheme to support you too! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Yes, we're hiring at Durham Geography in the UK. Yes, two posts in human geography. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

An exciting PhD opportunity has come up w/ the Ngā Ngaru Wakapuke program in"Understanding earthquake sequences using near- and on-fault paleoseismology on the western Marlborough Fault System". To work with leading paleoseismologists from VUW (J Howarth) & GNS. Contact [email protected] for pdf

Our new paper in discussion in @egu-esurf.bsky.social publishes the results of Scotland's Big Sediment Survey - a citizen science project to document the grain size of Scottish rivers led by Anya Towers during her PhD. Find out more here: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

If you think Direct Air Capture (DAC) is going to save us, please read this. This is isn’t some left-wing fringe environmental group saying this. It’s MIT. news.mit.edu/2024/reality...

A new paper led by Sebastian Sippel just appeared in Nature arguing that ocean temperature measurements in the early 20th century have a cold bias. It's a fun story illustrating the process of scientific discovery, so let me talk about it a bit. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Making the most of the Durham snow

👋 Hello, Bluesky!

Redrawing the global warming stripes. In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought. Thread... (1/13)

100%. Plus, the discourse has convinced many that 1.5 C is a “tipping point” as opposed to a policy milestone that signifies that we are already experiencing dangerous climate change, and the discourse is laying groundwork for a loss of credibility when 1.50 C turns out to be nothing special.

⚒️🧪🚨Job alert🚨 The Department of Geography at Durham University is currently seeking a 36-month Postdoctoral Research Associate focussed on glacimarine sedimentology to work alongside Professor Colm O’Cofaigh. More details about the post here 👉 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

No matter how many versions I see of this data, it is always eye-catching. And yes, this particular one is a very nice chart!

I have a new paper out, in a study led by Karla Rubi-Sandoval, on the unique preservation of four sea level highstands in Camarones, in Patagonia, Argentina! #SeaLevel #ClimateChange #Paleoclimate ⚒️🧪 🧵 1/6 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

School teachers - if your school is a member of the Royal Geographical Society then you & your students can attend my lecture on glaciers and climate change next week for free! www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #geographyteacher #glaciers #climatechange

Animation of daily normal precipitation throughout the year using stations data from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Probably my favorite animation.

Global sea level inspired by Hokusai's Great Wave #dataviz

Science doesn't exist in a vacuum. Values always play a role, especially in thorny issues like climate change. Here, @christelvaneck.bsky.social, @lydiamessling.bsky.social & I argue it's time to move beyond the pipe dream of neutrality + empower scientists to engage openly with societal values. 🧪

My recent research shows that when comparing storms from the 70s-80s to storms since 2001, modern Atlantic hurricanes are >3 times as likely to strengthen from Category 1 or weaker into Major Hurricanes within 12 hours--I guess #HurricaneHelene wanted to join the club. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello #earthsci grad students! Interested in working with (literal) boatloads of geophysical data & sediment cores to investigate earthquake records from lakes in Alaska? Then we have an excellent postdoc opportunity for you! Please share and reach out if interested. 🧪⚒️ www.usgs.gov/centers/mend...

Lakes are excellent recorders of #earthquakes! Here’s an overview of an excellent new study from Lake Ozette in coastal Washington that details major (M8-9) earthquake recurrence along the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest. 🧪⚒️ www.usgs.gov/centers/pcms...