Liz Bagshaw Glaciology

An Ice Sheet‐to‐Ocean Analysis of Carbon Stores and Fluxes in Earth's Polar Regions (RECCAP2, Polar Ice Sheets) Polar ice sheets, land fringes and oceans host vast carbon reserves (>10,000 billion tonnes, Gt) but with high uncertainty Polar ice sheets and their surrounding oceans are likely net sinks for C...

New paper! Led by Jemma Wadham on “An #Ice Sheet-to-Ocean Analysis of #Carbon Stores and Fluxes in Earth's Polar Regions (#RECCAP2, Polar Ice Sheets)” ❄️🧪🥼

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

So long, and thanks for all the Researchfish - LSE Impact Rob Johnson reflects on the demise of a platform that united the UK research community in one thing: complaining about it.

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@seismatters.bsky.social's greatest gift to the research community??

Climate Data Scientist | Climate Central Climate Central is seeking a highly-skilled Climate Data Scientist to join our team. Reporting to the Vice President for Science, the scientist will be part of a new initiative in climate services to ...

Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:

We're looking for a postdoctoral research associate to measure Greenland meltwater using Cryoeggs and seismometers. Join our dream team, apply here by 9 Feb: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Job ID ACAD108442
#glaciologyjobs

So jealous. Hi to all!

Key findings:

🔥 Summer: Most heat flows toward glaciers, concentrated in the upper 150 m thanks to subglacial discharge.
🌀 Winter: Circulation is surprisingly strong but more 3D than in summer.
➡️ Two distinct winter inflow events: one cold & deep, one relatively warm!

🏔️NEW in @natcomms.nature.com: “High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🤔There’s been lots of uncertainty about whether the number of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) has increased, decreased or flatlined in recent decades

Photo of a marine terminating glacier in Greenland with icebergs in front of it

🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT🚨

We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!

Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)

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Solar regulators for polar instrumentation: why night consumption matters Abstract. Autonomous instruments, powered using solar panels and batteries, are a vital tool for long-term scientific observation of the polar regions. However, winter conditions, with low temperature...

I love that on the day of the #AGU25 #MacGyver session in Hydrology (today! come to the poster hall!) this work by @drmikepj.bsky.social was published that he presented in a previous MacGyver session gi.copernicus.org/articles/14/...

Why night consumption of solar regulators matter for fieldwork!

Scientists hold up a 3m long graph

Happy scientists toast the end of the project with sparkling wine

Happy scientists in waterproofs gather round a trig point on top of a wet mountain

Celebrating the end of project #SLIDE the best way we know: getting really wet feet and looking at really long time series.

Chunks of ice melting into funnels in a lab

Nothing more pleasing than unearthing some ancient chunks of basal ice from the archive for a student experiment. Robyn's rig looks so sciencey!

New paper! Dr VB and a crack team of citizen scientists across the #riverwye compared performance of methods to measure phosphate and nitrate: links.email.frontiersin.org/ls/click?upn...
TL;DR: Hanna Checkers perform pretty well

Cop30 climate summit in Brazil disrupted after fire breaks out in venue Event thrown into confusion and 13 treated for smoke inhalation after conference centre evacuated

What a metaphor
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I haven't checked yet, but I would expect a pulse as all the runoff and yuck passes through. We have N sensors here too and they showed a spike as the flood passed. I'll be interested to see how long your P takes to subside!

Graph showing dramatic increase in water level on 16-17 November

I've got a sensor measuring a titchy stream near Monmouth to support one of our citizen science groups. It's usually 20-30 cm deep, but went up to >2m in just a few hours during Storm Claudia! Thinking of everyone affected.

Glacier terminating in a lake, similar to the one to be measured by this project

PhD project alert: monitoring ice dammed lakes in Iceland, observations, modelling and a dream team of supervisors. Apply now! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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)

Team SLIDE also features in this report. TL;DR: glaciers are changing fast, but they're not gone yet, and UK scientists are helping find out about it

Datasets and protocols for including anomalous freshwater from melting ice sheets in climate simulations Abstract. Anomalous freshwater fluxes from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves are impacting the surrounding oceans, and we need to be able to account for these effects in climate m...

Finally out! The outcome of a virtual workshop in Feb 2024 with modelers and observationalists to put together data and protocols to include historical changes in ice sheet/ice shelf discharge in CMIP models. Hopefully not too late for some CMIP7 runs!

gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

Such sad news, there's a tribute page linked below

The glaciers of South Georgia from the 1950s to 2100 CE

Delighted to be advertising an exciting PhD opportunity on South Georgia's glaciers through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. Please get in touch if you want to discuss and forward to any interested parties! iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Hey ice-sheet modellers! 👋

It’s time to register for the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP) protocol workshop being hosting here in Copenhagen (at GEUS) 23-25 March 2026.

Register: www.tilmeld.dk/ismip7worksh...

Learn more at how ISMIP supports the IPCC process: www.ismip.org

The Impact of Sewage Treatment Plant Discharges on the Water Quality of Receiving Rivers With increasing human populations, the need for sustainable management of wastewater becomes an ever-increasing issue, yet studies that consider the impact of the final effluent on the receiving rive....

Hanna's (Zihan Yang) first paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
paired data on 317 sewage works and 232 control reaches for 22 years to find out what impact of sewage has. What was getting worse or what was getting better with time and why? @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @jlaknapp.bsky.social

Oh reviewer #2, peeing on my bonfire again

Environmental controls of autotrophic biofilm biomass and community composition in subarctic lakes and streams in Greenland Photosynthetic biofilms are key components of Arctic freshwater ecosystems, supporting primary production and forming the base of aquatic food webs. While several environmental factors regulating bio...

Happy to share our new paper in L&O about autotrophic biofilms in subarctic lakes and streams 🦠 🏔️ @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hi #freshwater scientists! The Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH are advertising for a senior freshwater ecologist...could this be you?

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@ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco #job #science #ecology

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Screenshot of article search, suggesting to add 'problem of evil' and 'theodicy' quick keywords

No Web of Science, I do not wish to add these quick keywords to my search about a glacier

My turkey baster is right up there with my favourite screwdriver for top tools of the trade

Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Thought provoking article to share with your families and friends when they ask what you do, featuring the ever excellent @arwynedwards.bsky.social

Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing - Nature Iceberg calving can act as a submarine melt amplifier through excitation of transient internal waves.

Cool new paper using DAS to observe fracture, calving and mixing in a Greenland fjord www.nature.com/articles/s41...