Sammie Buzzard
@treacherousbuzz.bsky.social
Glaciology and climate ❄️🐧🐻❄️
@cpom-uk.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Northumbria Uni
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/b/sammie-buzzard/
Chief butler to Pingo the rescue dog 🐕
Trail running 🏃🏼♀️ oboist 🎶 Barnet FC 🧡
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@cpom-uk.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Northumbria Uni
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/b/sammie-buzzard/
Chief butler to Pingo the rescue dog 🐕
Trail running 🏃🏼♀️ oboist 🎶 Barnet FC 🧡
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🚁 At the Lit & Phil last week, CPOM's @andyshepherd.bsky.social & @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social showed how drones are transforming fieldwork in polar regions, sharing these highlights from a CPOM PhD research trip to Iceland last year ❄️
#PolarScience #ClimateResearch #Dronetech
#PolarScience #ClimateResearch #Dronetech
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🚁 At the Lit & Phil last week, CPOM's @andyshepherd.bsky.social & @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social showed how drones are transforming fieldwork in polar regions, sharing these highlights from a CPOM PhD research trip to Iceland last year ❄️
#PolarScience #ClimateResearch #Dronetech
#PolarScience #ClimateResearch #Dronetech
I've been working on it for over a decade but the scale of the ice in Antarctica still 🤯
Look for the scale bar in the bottom right, 4km
Look for the scale bar in the bottom right, 4km
Ice Calving, Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica
Late winter hi-res image of the glacier that flows into the Amundsen Sea, producing this spectacular calving event (ice floes). If Thwaites were to collapse from climate change, it could raise global sea levels by 65 centimetres.
Late winter hi-res image of the glacier that flows into the Amundsen Sea, producing this spectacular calving event (ice floes). If Thwaites were to collapse from climate change, it could raise global sea levels by 65 centimetres.
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I've been working on it for over a decade but the scale of the ice in Antarctica still 🤯
Look for the scale bar in the bottom right, 4km
Look for the scale bar in the bottom right, 4km
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Polar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’
Polar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’
Underwater curtains and artificial ice thickening divert attention from cutting fossil fuel use, says group of climate scientists
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Polar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’
Our paper is out, providing alternative viewpoints to some polar geoengineering ideas covered in the media recently. Lots still to talk about but let's focus on decarbonising instead of drilling Antarctica for now? 🇦🇶
Thanks @newscientist.com @mjflepage.bsky.social for covering this important issue!
Thanks @newscientist.com @mjflepage.bsky.social for covering this important issue!
CPOM Director for Knowledge Exchange Sammie Buzzard @northumbriauni.bsky.social (@treacherousbuzz.bsky.social) comments in this article from the New Scientist on research published today on the risks and realities of polar geoengineering 👇
www.newscientist.com/article/2495...
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 9:49 AM
Our paper is out, providing alternative viewpoints to some polar geoengineering ideas covered in the media recently. Lots still to talk about but let's focus on decarbonising instead of drilling Antarctica for now? 🇦🇶
Thanks @newscientist.com @mjflepage.bsky.social for covering this important issue!
Thanks @newscientist.com @mjflepage.bsky.social for covering this important issue!
2 weeks internet free in camp. Nothing bad happened in the UK or the world in general while we were away... right? 😬
August 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
2 weeks internet free in camp. Nothing bad happened in the UK or the world in general while we were away... right? 😬
I've got test tubes am I a real scientist now? 👩🏼🔬
August 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I've got test tubes am I a real scientist now? 👩🏼🔬
It's a double pole summer, can I even call myself a modeller any more?
The SLIDE team all safely arrived in Kangerlussuaq and ready to science (after sleep)!
The SLIDE team all safely arrived in Kangerlussuaq and ready to science (after sleep)!
August 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It's a double pole summer, can I even call myself a modeller any more?
The SLIDE team all safely arrived in Kangerlussuaq and ready to science (after sleep)!
The SLIDE team all safely arrived in Kangerlussuaq and ready to science (after sleep)!
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CPOM's @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social joined @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk to investigate what lies beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, Antarctica 🌊
Watch the 📽️ - cpom.org.uk/what-lies-be...
Watch the 📽️ - cpom.org.uk/what-lies-be...
August 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
CPOM's @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social joined @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk to investigate what lies beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, Antarctica 🌊
Watch the 📽️ - cpom.org.uk/what-lies-be...
Watch the 📽️ - cpom.org.uk/what-lies-be...
Back at @bas.ac.uk and the scale model of the Sir David Attenborough is so much more fun when you can spot your own cabin. Wishing I was back south and not in the Cambridge heat though! 🥵
July 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Back at @bas.ac.uk and the scale model of the Sir David Attenborough is so much more fun when you can spot your own cabin. Wishing I was back south and not in the Cambridge heat though! 🥵
Two days, two school visits, two excellent sets of students, thanks yr 8 @hebburncomp.bsky.social & yr 12 @ St Mary's! Hopefully a few future glaciologists inspired by my adventures on Boaty McBoatface (picture taken by one of the SDA crew in Lemaire Channel 🇦🇶, I'm on the tiny boat by the big berg!)
June 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Two days, two school visits, two excellent sets of students, thanks yr 8 @hebburncomp.bsky.social & yr 12 @ St Mary's! Hopefully a few future glaciologists inspired by my adventures on Boaty McBoatface (picture taken by one of the SDA crew in Lemaire Channel 🇦🇶, I'm on the tiny boat by the big berg!)
"Antarctic research is central to global climate strategies. Although geoengineering solutions have been proposed, their high costs and environmental risks make them less viable compared to more effective strategies like reducing global carbon emissions."
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
The UK and the Antarctic environmentUK ParliamentDownload iconShare icon
Report of the Environmental Audit Committee
publications.parliament.uk
June 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"Antarctic research is central to global climate strategies. Although geoengineering solutions have been proposed, their high costs and environmental risks make them less viable compared to more effective strategies like reducing global carbon emissions."
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
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reports almost daily of Palestinians being killed while trying desperately to get to supplies.
what a horrific catch 22 Gazans are trapped in.
what a horrific catch 22 Gazans are trapped in.
BREAKING: At least 20 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid near the Netzarim Corridor, south of Gaza City, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing al-Quds Hospital.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/0tdlv3
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/0tdlv3
June 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
reports almost daily of Palestinians being killed while trying desperately to get to supplies.
what a horrific catch 22 Gazans are trapped in.
what a horrific catch 22 Gazans are trapped in.
We came looking for chlorophyll and our acoustician found this... At 180m tall I guess we found out where the monster hangs out when not in Loch Ness @biopole.bsky.social?
www.instagram.com/p/DJ4LOnONVg...
www.instagram.com/p/DJ4LOnONVg...
May 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We came looking for chlorophyll and our acoustician found this... At 180m tall I guess we found out where the monster hangs out when not in Loch Ness @biopole.bsky.social?
www.instagram.com/p/DJ4LOnONVg...
www.instagram.com/p/DJ4LOnONVg...
Making new friends in the Lemaire Channel 😍
May 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Making new friends in the Lemaire Channel 😍
The science team currently on the RRS Sir David Attenborough 🚢
We've been finding out more about what's going on in the polar ocean and atmosphere as the southern hemisphere heads into winter ❄️
📷 @drbradbrad.bsky.social
@cpom-uk.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social
We've been finding out more about what's going on in the polar ocean and atmosphere as the southern hemisphere heads into winter ❄️
📷 @drbradbrad.bsky.social
@cpom-uk.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The science team currently on the RRS Sir David Attenborough 🚢
We've been finding out more about what's going on in the polar ocean and atmosphere as the southern hemisphere heads into winter ❄️
📷 @drbradbrad.bsky.social
@cpom-uk.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social
We've been finding out more about what's going on in the polar ocean and atmosphere as the southern hemisphere heads into winter ❄️
📷 @drbradbrad.bsky.social
@cpom-uk.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social
Some of the @biopole.bsky.social team and our science buddies enjoyed a walk around Rothera this morning, it's definitely getting wintery here! Necessary exercise to burn off all the incredible food on the RRS Sir David Attenborough. Fish and chips Friday tonight 😋
May 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Some of the @biopole.bsky.social team and our science buddies enjoyed a walk around Rothera this morning, it's definitely getting wintery here! Necessary exercise to burn off all the incredible food on the RRS Sir David Attenborough. Fish and chips Friday tonight 😋
Good morning from Boaty McBoatface 🚢
May 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Good morning from Boaty McBoatface 🚢
In 2016 @tjy511.bsky.social and I were lucky enough to be invited to the keel laying for the RRS Sir David Attenborough through @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social. Neither of us ever expected to go on the ship but there was a free breakfast and we almost got a selfie with the man himself 🚢
May 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In 2016 @tjy511.bsky.social and I were lucky enough to be invited to the keel laying for the RRS Sir David Attenborough through @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social. Neither of us ever expected to go on the ship but there was a free breakfast and we almost got a selfie with the man himself 🚢
Parents have been clearing out my old school books and turns out I've actually been concerned about Antarctica for quite some time. Promise not to make a fire once I get there 😬
May 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Parents have been clearing out my old school books and turns out I've actually been concerned about Antarctica for quite some time. Promise not to make a fire once I get there 😬
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It’s been a wonderful final day of #EGU25 with a talk and poster from CPOM’s @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) and posters from Adam Bateson and David Schroeder (@uniofreading.bsky.social).
Here are some photos of the team in action!
Wishing everyone a safe journey home.
Here are some photos of the team in action!
Wishing everyone a safe journey home.
May 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It’s been a wonderful final day of #EGU25 with a talk and poster from CPOM’s @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) and posters from Adam Bateson and David Schroeder (@uniofreading.bsky.social).
Here are some photos of the team in action!
Wishing everyone a safe journey home.
Here are some photos of the team in action!
Wishing everyone a safe journey home.
6 years of the session admin, 2 convening virtually and now finally 1 in person. This had better be one hell of a party...
May 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
6 years of the session admin, 2 convening virtually and now finally 1 in person. This had better be one hell of a party...
Strong start to the last day of EGU25, it's finally ice sheet hydrology time!!❄️💧
Kicking us off it's our invited speaker Tim Hill with his statistical approach to subglacial modelling.
Kicking us off it's our invited speaker Tim Hill with his statistical approach to subglacial modelling.
May 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Strong start to the last day of EGU25, it's finally ice sheet hydrology time!!❄️💧
Kicking us off it's our invited speaker Tim Hill with his statistical approach to subglacial modelling.
Kicking us off it's our invited speaker Tim Hill with his statistical approach to subglacial modelling.
Excited to announce that the SLIDE team have won EGU25. Commiserations to all others participating.
May 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Excited to announce that the SLIDE team have won EGU25. Commiserations to all others participating.
It's nice to be shown "nice landforms" by Chris in the safety of an EGU lecture than from the car in Greenland while he was definitely much more excited about the landforms than the direction the road was going in 😂
May 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's nice to be shown "nice landforms" by Chris in the safety of an EGU lecture than from the car in Greenland while he was definitely much more excited about the landforms than the direction the road was going in 😂