Worst situation of glaciers in Central Asia ever... 🥵
Shown here is Grigoriev ice cap (4600 m asl, Kirghizistan)
Not a single snow patch left up to the summits, for the first time in over 10 years! 😱
Pics and MB data by @landervt.bsky.social 🙏
Melaine Le Roy
Glaciology PhD student at Durham Uni - mountain glacier hydrology and remote sensing of the cryosphere 🏔️🛰️
Holly Wytiahlowsky
A few of my recent creations from the office bake-off: the Antarcticake and my finale entry, ‘rake-off’. Happy to have placed first! Will be putting the winnings to good use and buying everyone extra nice Christmas presents this year.
Wonderful week spent with @geogdurham.bsky.social
students on the Arctic fieldtrip learning about Arctic environments, governance, and politics. Great enthusiasm all around! Students even led some roadside yoga and rounders when the bus broke down. Some pretty good northern lights too!
Endless debris flows...😱
These images of the debris flow that hit Bionaz (1600m, Valpelline) last night show why you should avoid rivers and streams during heavy thunderstorms in the mountains! 🌊
🎥 Meteo Valle d'Aosta
Via @johannsalpenweer.bsky.social
Had a lovely time at the @igsoc.bsky.social British Branch meeting in Oxford! Great to catch up with familiar faces and meet some new ones too. It was also nice to have received commendations for my talk and left with a new duck companion 🦆!
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Excited to share that some of the results from my master’s research have been published! Using SAR, we found evidence of winter meltwater persistence on George VI Ice Shelf and upstream of its grounding line 🛰️🧊
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
Our new review paper is now out in Reviews of Geophysics! 🎉
We present the first comprehensive review of the role of sea ice and ice mélange in influencing outlet glacier dynamics across both polar regions ❄️
🧊 Read more here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
🚨 Interested in the form and variability of the supraglacial hydrological system? @hollywytia.bsky.social et al. explore the controls on channel distribution and characteristics on Swiss Alpine glaciers in a new paper hot off the press at The Cryosphere! ❄️ tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
@hollywytia.bsky.social has written a short, public-friendly blog post about her new paper in the Cryosphere about supraglacial (ice-surface) streams on Swiss glaciers. Learn more at the link below 👇
durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r...
Another great day of the IGS symposium, with a field trip visiting evidence of glaciation in upper Teesdale, Eden Valley drumlins at Brough Castle, the fluvioglacial landscape of the Brampton Kame Belt, and streamlined bedforms from Tyne Gap ice streaming (plus Roman archaeology) at Hadrian's Wall!
Holly Wytiahlowsky
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Melaine Le Roy
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The presence and storage of meltwater on Antarctic ice shelves has implications for ice-shelf stability and collapse, while meltwater on grounded tributary g...
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Sea ice and mélange influence glacier dynamics directly through modulating calving, and indirectly through influencing ocean circulation Glacier responses to sea-ice change are influenced by loca...
Abstract. Supraglacial channels form a key component of glacier hydrology, transporting surface meltwater to englacial and proglacial positions, which impacts ice flow dynamics, surface mass balance a...
A new study led by Holly Wytiahlowsky of the Durham Glaciology Group has just been published, providing insight into glacier hydrology by producing the first inventory of supraglacial channels on m…
