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📣 WE ARE HIRING 📣 1 yr Lectureship in Physical Geography (envt change, past envts, cryosphere). Details below👇🏼 Come and work with an exciting group of colleagues at Newcastle University in autumn 2024. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIB020/lec… APPLY BY 24 JUNE. Maternity replacement post.

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment Spoiler alert...NO! #Grants #academia

New research article: A machine learning approach to the geomorphometric detection of ribbed moraines in Norway doi.org/10.5194/esurf-…

What you are looking at are plants that were grown from seeds buried in permafrost for nearly 32,000 years after being discovered on the banks of the Kolyma River in Siberia in 2015 [read more: buff.ly/2U7XHRn]

Exciting new paper from UCD student Roland Neofitu. It was really fun to be involved and think about much older ice sheets. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until 2000 BC! But why did they go extinct? Were they doomed once stuck on the island? We went to Siberia, collected bones & teeth, and sequenced 21 complete genomes. Here is what we found (🧵) Paper in Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Great to see this paper out on the deglacial history of the NE Greenland ice stream authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S02… Massive thanks to everyone on the NEGIS team

Otherworldly snow tunnel colours today on Ben Nevis. I wasn’t expecting to see such a sight, so a very nice surprise.

A final one from the weekend. And perhaps the most enigmatic patch of snow in Scotland. Sitting at just above the 3,000ft (914 metres) contour, this relic of winter has in the last few years frequently been the last to melt or sole-surviving one in the country. Why such a

We received this amazing footage from Professor Alun Hubbard showing rare meltwater upwelling and moulins on the Western Greenland Ice Sheet yesterday after five days of high temperatures & clear skies. Professor Hubbard commented, “Surface melt, upwelling & moulins kicking off

Delighted that our englacial esker paper has been included in this ESPL special issue on geomorphology and glacier/ice-sheet behaviour - check it out ❄️❄️❄️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.100…

Made in Manchester and Leigh: Kathleen Drew-Baker (1901-57), a star botanist at the University of Manchester, made breakthroughs in cultivation of seaweed that saved Japan’s multi-billion pound sushi industry, for which she is commemorated there as ‘Mother of the Sea’. 1/6

New paper in NatureClimate on dryland soil organic C rdcu.be/dPqbV Our data show how vulnerable this global C store is to depletion by warming & aridification Proud to be part of the BIODESERT team & lovely to see some Kalahari pics Fernando T. Maestre Andy Dougill Geography and Earth Sciences @ Aber Uni

Here’s an elevation change map of the Chilcotin landslide using pre and post event lidar. Estimated volume about 6x10^6 m^3. Map and comparison by Hakai Institute, flown by KÎSIK, data GeoBC

Chilcotin landslide (as I understand) -Deep-seated slide in sandy glacial outwash (?) sediment (Wed. 7/31) -Blockage of Chilcotin River -Lake pooling over last 5 days (~0.1 km^3) -Leakage and then erosion of landslide today, with outflows reaching 1,000's of m^3/s

Glacial dam outburst floods Alaska's capital, damages homes reuters.com/business/envir… More than 100 homes in Alaska's capital Juneau have been damaged by a glacial dam outburst north of the city, an increasingly frequent phenomenon exacerbated by climate change.

Register your interest in attending the 2025 IGS sponsored ‘Internl. Symposium on Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers’ at Durham University UK, 20-25 July 2025. Go to bit.ly/470kiR5 to register 1st circ soon to be posted on the IGS website bit.ly/4dPkViq

The Embassy is seeking expressions of interest from early career researchers for Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders Programme for Arctic Frontiers 2025: Beyond Borders. Read more about the call here: ireland.ie/en/norway/oslo… Marine Institute Network of Arctic Researchers in Ireland (NARI)

Call for abstracts out now! IQUA is holding our annual Autumn Symposium and we are inviting abstract submissions through 22 November 2024. More information here can be found here: iqua.ie/call-for-abstr…