Feel like my data are trying to tell me something #middlefinger

I’m quoted in this Smithsonian Magazine article about glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). It follows from the ice-dammed lake drainage at Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, earlier this year but covers other places affected by GLOFs. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...#glofs#glaciers#geohazards

When a Glacial Dam Burst, an Alaskan Town Was Hit With a Sudden Flood

From Alaska to Peru and the Himalayas, glacial lakes are suddenly breaking free and causing deaths and millions of dollars in damages

During the last six months there’s been a substantial increase in academics approaching me to ask about leaving #academia… This article articulates many of the reasons why they’re doing that…

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"It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker and external examiner and press pundit and grant bidder and editor."

It’s Not Your Fault That Academic Life is Getting Harder by Glen O’Hara

Universities are in trouble, and it’s not just money we’re talking about. They are living through something of a crisis of confidence, even of trust and faith. More and more, I find myself, and my col...

🌊 New Pre-Print: Causes, consequences and implications of the 2023 landslide-induced Lake Rasac GLOF, Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. In Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) Discussions egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...#glaciers#glofs#glof#flood#floods#peru#geohazards

Causes, consequences and implications of the 2023 landslide-induced Lake Rasac GLOF, Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru

Abstract. Glacierized Peruvian mountain ranges are experiencing accelerated, climate change-driven glacier ice loss. Peru’s second highest mountain range, the Cordillera Huayhuash, has lost about 40 %...

⛰ New series of educational videos about glaciers ❄ I've recorded a set of 5 short videos about glaciation with MASSOLIT, with a particular focus on the UK. These are intended for high-school students. They are behind a subsciption paywall but the first one is free. massolit.io/courses/glac...

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Oh that is cool. Needs to try it for the worm holes in star wars 😂

Thank you! I am schooled for the day :)

How did you do this, Kristen? Take screenshots from video and then metashape or similar?

🌊I was interviewed for BBC World Service Newshour programme about the unprecedented #floods#Kazakhstan#Russiawww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Newshour - 'Worst floods in decades' hit Kazakhstan and Russia - 'Worst floods in decades' hit Kazakhstan and Russia - BBC Sounds

Mass evacuations continue amid the worst flooding in eighty years