Dear friends, colleagues, Bethan Davies I’m delighted to write that I have just been informed that as of 1st August 2024 I will be awarded a Personal Chair and will become Professor Bethan Davies. I’m truly delighted to have been awarded this and will seek to use my new position to continue to support and work with my colleagues and students. I’m looking forward to continuing those collaborations and partnerships that have sustained my career to date, and remain inspired and encouraged by the passionate early career researchers that I have the privilege to work with. Thank you to my colleagues ..read more

In June 2023, as part of our Deplete and Retreat project, Jeremy Ely, Tom Matthews, Wouter Buytaert and Jose Cuadros-Adriazola travelled to La Paz, Bolivia, to scope the installation of hydrological loggers and our automatic weather station at Zongo Glacier and Ancohoma, Bolivia. See more of our Deplete and Retreat News here. Location of La Paz, Zongo Glacier and Ancohuma, in the Kaka hydrological catchment. We met with, and were greatly supported by, the team led by Marcos Andrade at the Laboratorio de Fisica de la Atmosfera, at Universidad Mayor de San Andres. We are very grateful to him, Ju ..read more

Day 2 Today is another day in the office. On office days I’m usually busy with meetings, teaching, emails and administration. I try and keep a couple of days clear a week for more thoughtful work, and try and work from home, but it’s not always possible. 0800: I’m in the office bright and early, and, after securing a morning coffee, focus on reading a PhD thesis that I am examining soon. 1000 – 1100: I have an online meeting with a colleague about some teaching that we’re delivering together. We finish with a clear plan. 1100 – 1130: I have a pre-arranged coffee with a colleague to discuss res ..read more

Day 1 This is an example of one typical day at work for a mid-career academic. This semester I’m teaching a couple of undergraduate courses, a postgraduate course, and teaching a field class abroad. I’m supervising 5 PhD students and 1 MRes student, and am currently Director of Research and REF2029 lead for the Department of Geography. Today I have a number of meetings, with only short breaks in between. I spend a lot of time in meetings, and I try and cluster them on key days, to leave other days free for thoughtful work. 0800: I drop my daughter off to the school bus and return home to make ..read more

The University of Vienna is now advertising again two Ida Pfeiffer Professor positions. The application deadline is the 8 March 2024. The specialist focus is on Cosmos and Earth. Employment period should be the beginning of September 2024 to the end of February 2025. https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Visiting-Professor/1016010601/ https://fgga.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/ida-pfeiffer-professorship/ Please circulate in your networks! The post Ida Pfeiffer Professor 2024 appeared first on AntarcticGlaciers.org ..read more

Jump to Site Map Most Recent Webpages Shrinking Glaciers in Bhutan (1st Jan 2024) Measuring glacier velocity (28th Nov 2023) Increasing risk of Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (16th nov 2023) Organising glacier fieldwork in the Himalaya (2nd Nov 2023) Observing and Monitoring glaciers and ice sheets (26th Oct 2023) Free talks about Antarctica (8th Sept 2023) Mapping the glacier bed: radio echo sounding (6th September 2023) Calculating glacier volume change from space (12th June 2023) Climate change and the world’s three poles (video) (2nd May 2023) Video: Antarctica, ice melt and global sea leve ..read more

By Alex Hyde The sub-topical glaciers of Bhutan Bhutan is a small mountainous nation located in the Eastern Himalaya, with a population of around 727 000 people (Figure 1). The country has a sub-tropical climate in its south, where it borders lowland plains, and a Himalayan subalpine climate to the north where it meets the Tibetan plateau and elevations reach as high as 7500 m above sea level. Glaciation in this region covers around 1500 km2 with a volume close to 150 km3(1-2). Figure 1: Map of Bhutan, blue regions in the north show glacier coverage.Clean and debris-covered glaciers Glaciers v ..read more

By Alex Hyde Why is understanding glacier velocity important? In the Himalayas, and world-wide, climate change driving glacier retreat. In some mountain regions like the Himalayas, this climate change is also resulting in large scale changes in glacier ice-flow dynamics and velocity (1-2), which is impacting glacier response to climate change. Measuring these changes in glacier velocity is essential for understanding the impact of climate change on ice dynamics (Figure 1). In this article, we focus on how glacier velocity is measured, with a specific focus on glaciers in the Himalayas. Figure ..read more

I am pleased to announce three PhDs being advertised in the IAPETUS DTP that I am involved with. These are for 2024 entry, with a closing deadline of January 5th 2024. Information on how to apply here. #1. Palaeoglacier and Palaeoclimate reconstructions in the Chilean and Argentinian Lake District, Patagonia link here Rationale During past glaciations, the Patagonian Ice Sheet stretched from ~38°S to 55°S, with terrestrial outlet piedmont lobes forming at low elevations above sea level in the northern sector. Reconstruction of the Patagonian Ice Sheet through different and rapidly changing cli ..read more

By Caroline Taylor What is a glacial lake outburst flood? Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) refer to the sudden release of meltwater and sediment from a dammed lake1. Across the globe there are many types of glacial lake dams, including moraine-dams, ice-dams, bedrock-dams, and landslide-dams 2, all of which can produce GLOFs.   Dig Tsho in the Langmoche valley, Khumbu Himal, Nepal. This glacial lake breached catastrophically in 1985 due to an ice avalanche-induced wave and wiped out a recently finished hydroelectric plant as well as killing several people downstream (With permissions ..read more