Passed my MSc thesis defense!!!! 🤩

We’ve just published the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet (called Bedmap3), and we learnt some pretty cool facts about Antarctica that you can use to impress your pals. Ready?

Graphic: Hamish Pritchard et al

Great day at the Spring Conference of the Geoscience Society of Iceland!

Certified fresh: the Earth Science Women starter pack with almost 70 global women geoscientists for you to follow! Please help me out and submit more names, especially LBTQ+ women and women of color. Also any feeds that should be included. Rock on, sisters! go.bsky.app/BLDWXKt 🧪⚒️

Polar Stratospheric Clouds over Reykjavík today!

A new gigantic outburst flood from Catalina lake in East Greenland [Catalinadal, Renland, Scoresbysund].

total volume: 3.4 km3
peak discharge: ~7200 m3/s
top-10 #GLOF in terms of both numbers.
previous outburst 2013

I'm sending out a press release today about it.
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Yes, there is no real "scientific debate" about this. The polar science community is fairly united in its view that proposed geoengineering schemes are unrealistic, potentially dangerous, ungovernable and geopolitical divisive fantasies. Let's just focus on the real solution: reducing emissions.

Norway's plans to open mining on the Arctic seabed have been stopped...for now.

Images of glacial retreat posted by 66N°, a clothing brand in Iceland, in honor of their annual ‘Glacier Friday’, where 25% of sales is donated to support research of the Icelandic Glaciological Society.

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Walked in on a sleepy cat in the GIS lab this morning

Updated yearly zonal mean temperature anomalies since 1900 (by latitude) - regional trends, greater year-to-year variability in the N. Hemisphere, & pronounced #Arctic warming

Note: uncertainties in Southern Ocean data & latitude is not scaled by distance. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Aaaaand another eruption has begun here in Iceland, started just less than an hour ago at 23:14 GMT. #Geology

Surge fronts of Vallåkrabreen and Scheelebreen from a fieldwork day with UNIS earlier this year ❄️

#glaciology #Svalbard

My name is Chelsea Hill, a MSc student at the University of Iceland, focusing on glaciology and glacial geomorphology. Current research focuses on controls of ice-surface structures during a surge, on post-surge glacial landsystem.