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
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…
"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."
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
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...
🌊I was interviewed for BBC World Service Newshour programme about the unprecedented #floods#Kazakhstan#Russiawww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Mass evacuations continue amid the worst flooding in eighty years
🏔️🌊NEW PAPER - Shaking up Assumptions: Earthquakes Have Rarely Triggered Andean Glacier Lake Outburst Floods - in Geophysical Research Letters, led by @eisstrom.bsky.socialagupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
New paper alert! Interested in the relationship between big #earthquakes#glacialdx.doi.org/10.1029/2023...
Excellent, Figure 5 illustrates that recently El Nino is noticeable noise on top of the large warming signal.
🚨NEW PAPER🚨Investigating the past, present and future responses of Shallap and Zongo Glaciers, Tropical Andes, to the El Niño Southern Oscillation In Journal of Glaciology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
