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Allen Pope
@allenpope.bsky.social
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Polar scientist & glaciologist. Sec Gen for @igsoc.bsky.social. Trail running. Still new to this platform & figuring things out!
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glacierbytes.bsky.social

Hey ice sheet types! 👋

The memes about the insane number of starter packs on this thing motivated me to create one more.

Please let me know who I am missing from the ice sheet world. 👇

go.bsky.app/4SxszWw
November 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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eos.org
A new analysis of #CryoSat-2 data revealed that subglacial lake levels in Antarctica are changing not by centimeters but by *meters*.

New research from Sally Wilson @universityofleeds.bsky.social, comments from @leighstearns.bsky.social @upenn.edu. eos.org/articles/sat...
Satellite Data Reveal Changing Lakes Under Antarctic Ice - Eos
Radar altimetry observations have pinpointed 85 active subglacial lakes, shedding light on how water moves beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
eos.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
allenpope.bsky.social
I love how much this piece lets the readers nerd out (along with the journalist) about what processes may be at play with this retreat!
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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helenmillman.bsky.social
❄️ Calling all glaciology PhD students! ❄️

Applications are now open for next year’s Karthaus Summer School. It’s a great experience and you will be very well fed. Apply here: www.projects.science.uu.nl/iceclimate/k...
Ice and Climate : Karthaus summerschool
www.projects.science.uu.nl
October 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
allenpope.bsky.social
Trying to get more connected on here - any (other) glaciologists / snow scientists / sea-ice scientists / cryo-neds on this app that I should be following? Tag your cool friends! (Yes, that pun was intentional.)
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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exploreice.bsky.social
Amazing COLDEX.org results - 6Million year old ice, with bubbles of old atmosphere. Thank you ice, for the stories you share about our planet and its climate. Led by Sarah Shakleton #glaciology #womeninstem #cryosphere #Antarctica

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

news.oregonstate.edu/news/six-mil...
Miocene and Pliocene ice and air from the Allan Hills blue ice area, East Antarctica | PNAS
Antarctic ice cores provide a unique archive of Earth’s atmosphere and its largest extant ice sheet. The oldest continuous ice core extends back 80...
www.pnas.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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igsoc.bsky.social
Announcing the new Secretary General of the International Glaciological Society, ❄Allen Pope❄, and honouring the outgoing Secretary General, ❄Magnús Már Magnússon❄.
-> See details in attached letters <-
#glaciology #ice #snow #openscience #academicassociation #learnedsociety @allenpope.bsky.social
Letter from the IGS President Shin Sugiyama announcing the new Secretary General, Allen Pope, and thanking the outgoing Secretary General, Magnus Mar Magnusson. Followed by a letter from Allen Pope, who feels excited, as a glaciologist, to be appointed in this community-facing role, and who thanks Magnus for his leadership and for his help during this transition period. Photos of the new Secretary General of the IGS, Allen Pope, and the outgoing Secretary General, Magnus Mar Magnusson.
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
allenpope.bsky.social
Career update: I’m excited & honored to be @igsoc.bsky.social's new Secretary General! I’m particularly excited to return to my roots as a glaciologist in this community-facing role. As I’m getting up to speed, feel free to reach out & see you at IGS meetings and publishing in IGS journals soon?!
October 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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drtwilamoon.bsky.social
The disappearance of the inspiring science adventure film "For Winter" was crushing. Read the article (shorturl.at/02nDR) and...
➡️ Follow and support the amazing Alison Criscitiello
➡️ Tell National Geographic Society this is not OK and recalibrate your relationship with them.
➡️ Tell others.
Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector
If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
allenpope.bsky.social
And with Antarctica on top, no less. (Which is also consistent with Mātauranga Māori that I've seen presented.) I love it!
rsimmon.bsky.social Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · Oct 8
Hello Rumsey Map Center!
Large Bellerby globe oriented south up. Oceans are a desaturated blue, Antarctica is gray, Australia and Africa are muted reds, browns, and greens. Behind the globe is a shelf of antique maps.
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene! 🧊😲

What a surprise! (nope) 🙃

Another evidence we are leaving the climate crucible that saw human societies develop! 🔥📈

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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ruthmottram.bsky.social
🚨New paper 🚨@natgeosci.nature.com Greenlandification of Antarctica - comment by me + colleagues @dmidk.bsky.social @eo4cryo.bsky.social + @universityofleeds.bsky.social showing how Antarctica increasingly resembles Greenland- drawing on a mass of work from @esaclimate.bsky.social

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The Greenlandification of Antarctica
Nature Geoscience - Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of...
rdcu.be
October 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
Will landscape responses reduce glacier sensitivity to climate change in High Mountain Asia? 🧪⚒️❄️⛰️ New paper in @egu-cr.bsky.social The Cryosphere

tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
Will landscape responses reduce glacier sensitivity to climate change in High Mountain Asia?
Abstract. In High Mountain Asia (HMA), ongoing climate change threatens mountain water resources as glaciers melt, and the resulting changes in runoff and water availability are likely to have conside...
tc.copernicus.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
[1/2] Sometimes pictures say more than 1,000 words.
This repeat photography of Birchgletscher (1927–2025) shows a century of change, ending in this year’s tragic collapse that destroyed Blatten and claimed one life.

📷 1927 vs 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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bas.ac.uk
In three days, our iconic red planes will take off from Canada to make the epic journey across the world to Antarctica.

These flights mark the start of a new polar science season.

BUT ALSO that means there's three days left to send your name to Antarctica with us! tickettoantarctica.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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polarrobs.bsky.social
🧪🧵The deepest part of the three gravity cores collected nearest to Thwaites Glacier.
September 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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igs-egg.bsky.social
Deadline approaching soon! Submit your application for this special travel grant.
igs-egg.bsky.social IGS EGG @igs-egg.bsky.social · Aug 21
Call for a special IGS-EGG conference grant to attend CliC OSC 2026 (clic2026.com)

Read the eligibility criteria here igsegg.org/egg-events/c...

Deadline: September 30

@igsoc.bsky.social

#Grant #CliC2026 #IGS #ECR
September 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰

I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign!

Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍

I need your help! 🤍

To learn more:
wemakeit.com/projects/gla...

🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏
September 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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mjflepage.bsky.social
With emissions still rising 📈 and the catastrophic consequences 🔥 becoming ever clearer, geoengineering is getting ever more tempting 🧪

But a review has concluded that the main methods proposed to save polar ice 🧊 are not doable or won't work

www.newscientist.com/article/2495...
Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change
A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all wildly impractical, wouldn't work, or both
www.newscientist.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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ecoevolab.bsky.social
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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carolineclason.bsky.social
A reminder that submissions are now open for the @igsoc.bsky.social special collection of the Annals of Glaciology on ‘Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers’. Accepted papers will be published continuously and will be brought together in an online thematic collection in 2026: www.igsoc.org/ice-streams-...
Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers - call for papers | IGS
The International Glaciological Society (IGS) will prepare a special collection of the Annals of Glaciology with the theme ‘Ice Streams and Outlet
www.igsoc.org
September 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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propublica.org
Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

By @abrahm.bsky.social, w/ graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social
“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
www.propublica.org
September 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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igs-egg.bsky.social
Call for a special IGS-EGG conference grant to attend CliC OSC 2026 (clic2026.com)

Read the eligibility criteria here igsegg.org/egg-events/c...

Deadline: September 30

@igsoc.bsky.social

#Grant #CliC2026 #IGS #ECR
August 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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zacklabe.com
More sad news for the polar community... Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (@arcus-arctic.bsky.social) is shutting down.

We all lose here. The past 8 months have been unthinkable, and their consequences for the future even more so.
Screenshot from the ARCUS August 2025 newsletter: Dear ARCUS Community, It is with a mix of gratitude and sadness for our community that we share an important update about ARCUS’s future. After more than three decades of connecting, supporting, and facilitating collaboration within the U.S. Arctic research community, ARCUS will sunset its operations at the end of September 2025 and formally dissolve as a nonprofit organization. This decision comes after careful consideration and reflection on the changing needs of the Arctic research landscape. While ARCUS as an institution will close, the impact of the relationships, collaborations, and shared work we have fostered will continue to ripple through the community for years to come. We are profoundly grateful for the many individuals—past and present—who have served on our Board, worked on our staff, contributed as partners, and supported ARCUS’s mission with passion and dedication. We want to assure you that we remain active and committed right up to the end
August 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM