With the EGU abstract deadline fast approaching, a reminder to check out our session on "impacts, risks and adaptation to a changing cryosphere" (CR1.3) when choosing where to submit! ❄️🌡️💧

Funded PhD! Building Resilience to Interactions and Cascades Between Hydrometeorological and Biological Hazards in African Rangelands (Project 2). co-supervisors @carolineclason.bsky.social Jed Stevenson. Funded by Christoper Moyes Memorial Studentship @ihrr.bsky.social Link 👇 Contact if interested

📢 Excited to advertise a PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social and @ihrr.bsky.social generously funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation. There are ten projects to select from (two highlighted below), and the deadline is 6th February. Learn more at: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

CONGRATULATIONS to @geogdurham.bsky.social's own Dave Roberts and Colm O'Cofaigh who have both been awarded the prestigious Polar Medal by the King in the 2026 New Year's Honours List. Such a well-deserved achievement for two excellent colleagues! ❄️🍾🥂 durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/p...

Wishing everyone a very merry festive season and a happy 2026! 🥂 This year, in place of sending cards, I've donated to St Mungo's who provide pet-friendly support to people experiencing homelessness. Best wishes from my furry bestie and I! 🐾🎄♥️

@hollywytia.bsky.social has written a short, public-friendly blog post about her new paper in the Cryosphere about supraglacial (ice-surface) streams on Swiss glaciers. Learn more at the link below 👇 durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r...

Looking forward to co-chairing a new IACS Working Group on Cryosphere Stewardship. It aims to explore frameworks to address the diminishing cryosphere while strengthening coordinated action for its stewardship. We'll shortly be inviting the wider cryosphere community to join! ❄️ lnkd.in/eW4isT55

🚨 Interested in the form and variability of the supraglacial hydrological system? @hollywytia.bsky.social et al. explore the controls on channel distribution and characteristics on Swiss Alpine glaciers in a new paper hot off the press at The Cryosphere! ❄️ tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

#Cop30 - Closing plenary now started - proposed final deal does not include a plan for a transition away from fossil fuels #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thinking about EGU 2026? Check out our session on "Impacts, risks and adaptation to a changing cryosphere"! We invite abstracts on a range of topics from cascading hazards to social and ecological impacts, resource security to environmental risk... 👇 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

@carolineclason.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social has co-authored a major new report from the UK National Commission for UNESCO looking at the consequences of melting ice on people and planet. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @cop30brazil.bsky.social

As the United Nations marks the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation and the opening of COP30 in Brazil, I'm happy to have been able to contribute a chapter to a new UK National Commission for UNESCO report on "Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes". (1/2)

📣 We are advertising a range of glaciology/polar PhD projects at @geogdurham.bsky.social funded by @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. ❄️ For more information on these projects, and info on eligibility, support for under-represented groups, and how to apply, visit durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/opportunities/

Very happy to announce that I have just started as Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Cryosphere! ❄️ The Cryosphere is an open-access, not-for-profit journal of @egu.eu, providing an inclusive publishing space for the global cryospheric community. I'm really looking forward to contributing in this new role!

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...

Relieved to have got round the Kielder Marathon in one piece yesterday, and to (miraculously after the last few weeks) have finished a bit faster than last year too. It really is a beautiful but relentlessly hilly race! The joint care supplements in the finishers bag were very apt... 😅

📣 Deadline extended until 30th November! We welcome submissions from studies offering both modern and palaeo perspectives of ice streams and outlet glaciers and hope this special collection will help to cross-pollinate ideas and theoretical insights into one of glaciology's most important topics! ❄️

A good example of why spatial literacy is an important skill and why geography is as relevant now as ever! #epicfail #studygeography @rgsibg.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A reminder that submissions are now open for the @igsoc.bsky.social special collection of the Annals of Glaciology on ‘Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers’. Accepted papers will be published continuously and will be brought together in an online thematic collection in 2026: www.igsoc.org/ice-streams-...

Be sure to check out our sessions at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference tomorrow! The sessions are jam-packed with variety and include live performances and displays of creative work. I wasn't able to attend in-person sadly, but @hywelgriffiths.bsky.social will be chairing in the room!

Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Bank holiday activities included catching up with @beardydylan.bsky.social while he's visiting from Canada (lovely to get a copy of his PhD thesis too - I'm a very proud supervisor! 😊), and painting the front door and garage to brighten up the house a bit... I think it looks better?! 😬🖌️🩵

Looking forward to convening the @geolsoc.bsky.social GeoFutures conference on 15th September. We have five fantastic keynote talks (including by @klausdodds.bsky.social who will discuss "making sense of a no longer reliably frozen Arctic" ❄️). Come join us online! www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/geofu...

Reflecting back on how enjoyable it was to host the @igsoc.bsky.social Symposium here at @geogdurham.bsky.social. A big thank you to everyone who attended, presented and contributed to organisation! It was lovely to see so many friendly faces and to hear about some fantastic glaciological science! ❄️

Excited to have started a new role as Co-Director of the IHRR. I'll be developing my work on environmental risk, hazards and water security in glacial environments, while fostering new cross-sector collaborations and supporting others with their own research ideas. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

The @ihrr.bsky.social is hosting the UK Alliance for Disaster Research (UKADR) Annual Conference on 4-5 September 2025 at @durham-university.bsky.social, with a theme of "Pathways to Practice and Resilience: UK Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Research on the National and Global Stage". (1/3)

Enough.

Motherfucking wind farms…

This is an interesting thing to ponder. In university settings it sometimes feels like we are moving away from oracy, debate, and presentations due to the the fear of causing anxiety to some students, but in doing so we are in danger of neglecting a vital skill. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I might not have come home with a finisher's medal this year but Islay suits the Lakeland 100 race buff and is happily providing cuddles! 🐾❤️🤣

Apparently organizing a symposium and finishing Lakeland 100 don't mix... my first DNF. Not enough rest or the right food over the week, conference dinner the night before the race, lots of nausea, and bad feet from the wet conditions. It just wasn't going to happen this time, but I gave it a shot!

Another great day of the IGS symposium, with a field trip visiting evidence of glaciation in upper Teesdale, Eden Valley drumlins at Brough Castle, the fluvioglacial landscape of the Brampton Kame Belt, and streamlined bedforms from Tyne Gap ice streaming (plus Roman archaeology) at Hadrian's Wall!

Fantastic turnout at the @igsoc.bsky.social symposium ECR event last night! Really insightful advice from @iceybethan.bsky.social and Becky Sanderson about how to navigate networking and conferences! We enjoyed putting their tips into practice during speed networking afterwards.

It's been a great first two days hosting the @igsoc.bsky.social symposium on ice streams and outlet glaciers. We've had excellent talks & posters spanning both contemporary and palaeo glaciology, and a sunny icebreaker in the courtyard of Durham Castle. ❄️🥂 Looking forward to tomorrow's excursion!

We're really looking forward to hosting the @igsoc.bsky.social International Symposium on Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers here at @geogdurham.bsky.social next week! ❄️ To learn more about glaciology research at Durham check out our brand new website! durhamglaciology.wordpress.com

Last long run before Lakeland 100 in two weeks - what a scorcher it is today. 🥵 I guess I could call it 'heat training' in case it ends up being similarly toasty during Lakeland! I've had too much going on lately to fully think about the race, but the excitement (and fear!) is starting to kick in! 😬

An exciting new study from our group, led by @polarguy.bsky.social, sheds light on the ancient pre-glacial landscape beneath East Antarctica and how an extensive network of fluvial surfaces has modulated subsequent ice sheet response to climate. Read more here! 👇❄️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Such a pleasure to welcome our students and their supporters to the Department yesterday on graduation day and to celebrate your achievements. We hope you have some great memories of your time with us and we wish you all every happiness and success as you set off on the next stage of your journeys ❤️

Is there anything more joyful than a dog rolling in the grass in the sun? 🥰 (unless fox poo or a dead animal is involved! 🤣)

Congratulations to @cristinabalaban.bsky.social who was back visiting Durham today for graduation! 🎓 Cristina's PhD research reconstructed the past glaciation of the Southern Carpathians, Romania, and she is now continuing her palaeoglaciological work as a postdoc in Prague. Well done Cristina! 👏❄️🍾

Lovely surprise from one of my dissertation students today... 🪴 A little boost during a very busy and challenging few weeks, and good to know I'm doing an okay job (because, like many people in academia, I often question that)! 🫶

Enjoying a glaciology group writing retreat this morning, with excellent cake provided by @hollywytia.bsky.social! ✍️🍰❄️

Nothing to see here... ❄️🌡️💧 (source: BBC News)

The @ihrr.bsky.social is hosting the UK Alliance for Disaster Research (UKADR) Annual Conference on 4-5 September 2025 at @durham-university.bsky.social, with a theme of "Pathways to Practice and Resilience: UK Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Research on the National and Global Stage". (1/3)

Can't remember when I last sat outside and read a book, but I don't think I'm good for much else today! An absolute scorcher at the end of a long week.

Great to talk to our work experience student John yesterday about my research on mountain glacier contamination and water security. John has been contributing to @geogdurham.bsky.social social media during his time with us and is definitely a budding future geographer!

Durham Dales Challenge done... 48km of heat, humidity and hills. 🥵 Not a fast one today, but happy to just get it done in these conditions!

Absolutely stoked for Matias, even if he is now showing up his supervisor in terms of ultra running (to be fair, my legs are significantly older and shorter! 🤣)! ⭐💪

An appeal to dredge the River Wear for the benefit of a rowing event, but no mention of the cygnet that was hit by a boat and killed at the weekend during the regatta, despite the swans and their young having been spotted beforehand. Can't nature come first for once?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CONGRATULATIONS to our very own @mikebentley.bsky.social who has been awarded an OBE for his services to Antarctic Science! Mike has not only made an outstanding contribution to polar science, he is also a fantastic colleague and we are all delighted for him! ❄️🥳 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...