Polar biogeoscientist at Durham University, working on sea ice reconstruction.
Palaeoenvironments | sea ice | geochemistry | dendrochronology | Arctic environment & climate
Georgia Melodie Hole
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Some folks are (purportedly) continually surprised that pretty much anywhere that people live is warming faster than the global mean.
It's not that tricky, since we mostly don't live in the ocean.
For millenia, for the whole of the Holocene epoch, we have built housing, reservoirs, roads and rail, and agriculture to live in a climate that no longer exists.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Want to read Hole et al.'s study for yourself? Find it here, in our #OpenAccess journal "Ecosphere": doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Seeing this everywhere. While the sight of bluebells and the morning cacaphony of blackbirds brings me joy, this is just the latest confirmation of unprecedented, terrifying global warming. Early bluebells in spring; heat waves and drought in the summer.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Attending the #RENKEI UK-Japan Collaboration Lab 2026 🇬🇧🇯🇵
My first time in Japan visiting Tohoku and Sophia Universities in Sendai and Tokyo has been brilliant; making new connections and potential collaborations already, and loving the food, landscape and welcoming people 🚅🍱⛩️🏯🍜
@durham.ac.uk
It has been heartening hearing at #EGU26 how valuable the #P2F syntheses of #seaice proxy datasets for the Holocene, LGM and Last Interglacial will be for palaeoclimate communities.
They are on their way (for both poles!), so watch this space! 🌊🧊
@egu.eu @durham.ac.uk @geogdurham.bsky.social
Landmark report calls for widespread air conditioning and says UK temperatures forecast to exceed 40C by 2050
Nice coverage of our recent @esajournals.bsky.social research in Canada's national paper, The Globe and Mail, with new evidence of "what Inuvialuit communities have long witnessed": beavers’ expansion "into the Far North, with cascading consequences for waterways, wildlife and a way of life."🦫⬆️
Our new media tip sheet is out! Explore fresh research from our journals on:
🐦a new metric for migratory birds
🦊mid-sized carnivore scavenging
🐻❄️polar bear adaption
🌲European forestry for birds
🦫& beavers reshaping the Arctic
Read it here: https://ow.ly/O5eU50YAEwh
Georgia Melodie Hole
ESA Journals
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Rage Against the Miocene
Rage Against the Miocene
Gavin Schmidt
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Ecological Society of America
Citizen science data reveals early flowering, nesting and insect activity as global heating accelerate seasonal change
Very nice to see our new paper feature in the March research news from the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social:
Eager beavers busy moving north 🦫 🌿 ⬆️
Read the highlight and link to the paper to learn more:
esa.org/blog/2026/03...
Georgia Melodie Hole
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is expanding its distribution in the Arctic tundra. Due to the species' capacity to engineer ecosystems, they can transform surface water dynamics and bi...
