Christine Batchelor
@christinebatchelor.bsky.social
Head of Physical Geography at Newcastle University. Ice sheets past and present, marine geology and geophysics, glacial geomorphology. 🧊🏔️🚢
Reposted by Christine Batchelor
Over the moon that this paper is now out! A lot of work and submitted during maternity leave, but really proud of the final version. Thanks goes to all the co-authors on this.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ocean driven retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream following the Last Glacial Maximum - Nature Communications
Warm Atlantic Water was a major driver of both initial NEGIS retreat from 21.6 ka BP and the collapse of its ice shelf ~15.2 ka BP. This study demonstrates the key role of ice-ocean interactions in co...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Over the moon that this paper is now out! A lot of work and submitted during maternity leave, but really proud of the final version. Thanks goes to all the co-authors on this.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University!
👉"What controls ice flow across Palmer and Ellsworth Lands, Antarctica?"
This project will use remote sensing datasets to examine the controls on past, present and future ice flow in Antarctica.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
👉"What controls ice flow across Palmer and Ellsworth Lands, Antarctica?"
This project will use remote sensing datasets to examine the controls on past, present and future ice flow in Antarctica.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University!
👉"What controls ice flow across Palmer and Ellsworth Lands, Antarctica?"
This project will use remote sensing datasets to examine the controls on past, present and future ice flow in Antarctica.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
👉"What controls ice flow across Palmer and Ellsworth Lands, Antarctica?"
This project will use remote sensing datasets to examine the controls on past, present and future ice flow in Antarctica.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University!
👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".
This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".
This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University!
👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".
This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".
This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.
More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Buried beneath Storegga is an even larger submarine megaslide - the Stad Slide!
Bridget Tiller’s new paper (the first of her PhD) reveals the vast extent of this slide, discusses its possible causes, and considers whether it could have caused a tsunami 🌊
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Bridget Tiller’s new paper (the first of her PhD) reveals the vast extent of this slide, discusses its possible causes, and considers whether it could have caused a tsunami 🌊
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Stad Slide: Preconditioning and failure of one of the world's largest megaslides
Submarine landslides can generate tsunamis and pose risks to underwater infrastructure, but a lack of direct observations of such slides hinders our understanding of their development and hazard pote...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Buried beneath Storegga is an even larger submarine megaslide - the Stad Slide!
Bridget Tiller’s new paper (the first of her PhD) reveals the vast extent of this slide, discusses its possible causes, and considers whether it could have caused a tsunami 🌊
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Bridget Tiller’s new paper (the first of her PhD) reveals the vast extent of this slide, discusses its possible causes, and considers whether it could have caused a tsunami 🌊
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Sun, sea and Physical Geography! We’re soaking up the rays on our Geography undergrad field trip to County Donegal, Ireland @newcastleuni.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Sun, sea and Physical Geography! We’re soaking up the rays on our Geography undergrad field trip to County Donegal, Ireland @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Here we share advice and reflections on organising an academic conference.
The winning formula? Good science + good colleagues + good food!
The winning formula? Good science + good colleagues + good food!
Organising an academic conference in 2025? See our reflections here from the @quaternaryra.bsky.social Annual Discussion meeting: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/01/how-...
How to organise a conference: advice and reflections from the 2025 Quaternary Research Association (QRA) Annual Discussion Meeting - AntarcticGlaciers.org
By Christine Batchelor, Louise Callard, Becky Sanderson and Bethan Davies 1. Introduction Together with other colleagues from Newcastle University, we organised the Quaternary Research Association (QR...
www.antarcticglaciers.org
January 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Here we share advice and reflections on organising an academic conference.
The winning formula? Good science + good colleagues + good food!
The winning formula? Good science + good colleagues + good food!
Thank you to everyone who attended the QRA conference this week. Particular thanks to all our panelists and presenters, and to everyone at Newcastle Physical Geography who helped to organise!
Pic is the icebreaker in the calm before the storm…
@quaternaryra.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Pic is the icebreaker in the calm before the storm…
@quaternaryra.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended the QRA conference this week. Particular thanks to all our panelists and presenters, and to everyone at Newcastle Physical Geography who helped to organise!
Pic is the icebreaker in the calm before the storm…
@quaternaryra.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Pic is the icebreaker in the calm before the storm…
@quaternaryra.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Coming to the QRA conference at Newcastle Uni in January?
Early bird reduced registration is only available until Saturday!
Register now at: sites.google.com/view/qraadm2...
@quaternaryra.bsky.social
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
Early bird reduced registration is only available until Saturday!
Register now at: sites.google.com/view/qraadm2...
@quaternaryra.bsky.social
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
QRA ADM 2025 - Registration
Registration is now open
Registration for the Annual General Meeting is open. Early Bird reduced registration rates are available until 30th November 2024, with a concessionary rate available (for s...
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November 28, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Coming to the QRA conference at Newcastle Uni in January?
Early bird reduced registration is only available until Saturday!
Register now at: sites.google.com/view/qraadm2...
@quaternaryra.bsky.social
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
Early bird reduced registration is only available until Saturday!
Register now at: sites.google.com/view/qraadm2...
@quaternaryra.bsky.social
@newcastleuni.bsky.social