Alison Banwell, Ph.D.
@alibanwell.bsky.social
Glaciologist | Antarctica and Greenland | Research Scientist, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder 🇺🇸 | Professor, CPOM, Northumbria University 🇬🇧 | Protect Our Winters Science Alliance | National Geographic Explorer
Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK:
"The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling"
More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️
"The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling"
More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK:
"The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling"
More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️
"The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling"
More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️
Excited to be featured in this new #STEM Super Stars colouring book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2YSJ9XW ❄️ 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Excited to be featured in this new #STEM Super Stars colouring book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2YSJ9XW ❄️ 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Great visit to U. Maine for radar field instrumentation training (GPR and ApRES) - next stop, the McMurdo Ice Shelf #Antarctica! 🇦🇶 ❄️
Thanks @alpinesciences.bsky.social, @km-schild.bsky.social and many wonderful @umaine.bsky.social grad students 👏🏻
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social 🧪
Thanks @alpinesciences.bsky.social, @km-schild.bsky.social and many wonderful @umaine.bsky.social grad students 👏🏻
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social 🧪
October 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Great visit to U. Maine for radar field instrumentation training (GPR and ApRES) - next stop, the McMurdo Ice Shelf #Antarctica! 🇦🇶 ❄️
Thanks @alpinesciences.bsky.social, @km-schild.bsky.social and many wonderful @umaine.bsky.social grad students 👏🏻
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social 🧪
Thanks @alpinesciences.bsky.social, @km-schild.bsky.social and many wonderful @umaine.bsky.social grad students 👏🏻
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social 🧪
Just another day in Boulder Colorado; a curious visitor dropped by... #boulderbears
July 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Just another day in Boulder Colorado; a curious visitor dropped by... #boulderbears
On the way back to the US after 3 weeks in Europe, culminating in an excellent 3-day ‘Ice Shelf Fracture Workshop’ @bas.ac.uk. Thanks to Rob Athern and Rosie Williams for organising (and yes, that is a Lego ice shelf!) ❄️ 🐧 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @ciresceee.bsky.social
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @ciresceee.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
On the way back to the US after 3 weeks in Europe, culminating in an excellent 3-day ‘Ice Shelf Fracture Workshop’ @bas.ac.uk. Thanks to Rob Athern and Rosie Williams for organising (and yes, that is a Lego ice shelf!) ❄️ 🐧 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @ciresceee.bsky.social
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @ciresceee.bsky.social
🎓 Huge congratulations to Dr. Emily Glen (@lancasteruni.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social) for smashing your PhD defense! 🥂
It’s been a pleasure being one of your supervisors and seeing your research (and confidence!) grow. Looking forward to whatever’s next! #proudadvisor @cires.colorado.edu
It’s been a pleasure being one of your supervisors and seeing your research (and confidence!) grow. Looking forward to whatever’s next! #proudadvisor @cires.colorado.edu
July 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
🎓 Huge congratulations to Dr. Emily Glen (@lancasteruni.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social) for smashing your PhD defense! 🥂
It’s been a pleasure being one of your supervisors and seeing your research (and confidence!) grow. Looking forward to whatever’s next! #proudadvisor @cires.colorado.edu
It’s been a pleasure being one of your supervisors and seeing your research (and confidence!) grow. Looking forward to whatever’s next! #proudadvisor @cires.colorado.edu
End of a very busy, exciting and HOT week at the @esa.int Living Planet symposium 2025 in Vienna! #LPS25 🛰️❄️
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
End of a very busy, exciting and HOT week at the @esa.int Living Planet symposium 2025 in Vienna! #LPS25 🛰️❄️
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Some good news for a change 🎉 Our 2023 @agu.org #GRL paper was among the top 10% most downloaded. Thanks to everyone who read and shared it!
We calculated meltwater volumes over all Antarctic ice shelves over 4 decades: doi.org/10.1029/2023...
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social 🧪
We calculated meltwater volumes over all Antarctic ice shelves over 4 decades: doi.org/10.1029/2023...
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social 🧪
April 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Some good news for a change 🎉 Our 2023 @agu.org #GRL paper was among the top 10% most downloaded. Thanks to everyone who read and shared it!
We calculated meltwater volumes over all Antarctic ice shelves over 4 decades: doi.org/10.1029/2023...
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social 🧪
We calculated meltwater volumes over all Antarctic ice shelves over 4 decades: doi.org/10.1029/2023...
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social 🧪
Thanks @chuckgreene1.bsky.social Glad to see that Diversity and Inclusion is back on the AGU website! @celestelabedz.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thanks @chuckgreene1.bsky.social Glad to see that Diversity and Inclusion is back on the AGU website! @celestelabedz.bsky.social
On the same theme as my post yesterday afternoon, here are some friendly chinstrap #penguins I met near @bas.ac.uk Rothera station #Antarctica in late 2022. 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
On the same theme as my post yesterday afternoon, here are some friendly chinstrap #penguins I met near @bas.ac.uk Rothera station #Antarctica in late 2022. 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
Now for some lighter, non-political
Sunday afternoon viewing… A video I took (sped up x2) leaving @bas.ac.uk Rothera station, Adelaide Island, #Antarctica in December 2022 on a Dash-7 ✈️. Beautiful. 😎 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
Sunday afternoon viewing… A video I took (sped up x2) leaving @bas.ac.uk Rothera station, Adelaide Island, #Antarctica in December 2022 on a Dash-7 ✈️. Beautiful. 😎 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Now for some lighter, non-political
Sunday afternoon viewing… A video I took (sped up x2) leaving @bas.ac.uk Rothera station, Adelaide Island, #Antarctica in December 2022 on a Dash-7 ✈️. Beautiful. 😎 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
Sunday afternoon viewing… A video I took (sped up x2) leaving @bas.ac.uk Rothera station, Adelaide Island, #Antarctica in December 2022 on a Dash-7 ✈️. Beautiful. 😎 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
Goodbye @agu.org 2024! 👋
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📷 @amfox37.bsky.social #AGU24
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📷 @amfox37.bsky.social #AGU24
December 14, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Goodbye @agu.org 2024! 👋
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📷 @amfox37.bsky.social #AGU24
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📷 @amfox37.bsky.social #AGU24
Congratulations to Masters student Michela Savignano and PhD student Ethan Carr @ecarr48.bsky.social for presenting their research at #AGU24 👏
@agu.org @agucryo.bsky.social @ciresnews.bsky.social
@agu.org @agucryo.bsky.social @ciresnews.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Congratulations to Masters student Michela Savignano and PhD student Ethan Carr @ecarr48.bsky.social for presenting their research at #AGU24 👏
@agu.org @agucryo.bsky.social @ciresnews.bsky.social
@agu.org @agucryo.bsky.social @ciresnews.bsky.social
#AGU24 really is GIGANTIC! This is the poster hall, with 1000s of posters covering a wide range of earth science topics… There are x2 poster sessions a day, over 5 days. With 27,000 registered attendees! 😳 (filmed during lunch, so only a few folk in this video).
@agu.org @ciresnews.bsky.social
@agu.org @ciresnews.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 3:27 AM
#AGU24 really is GIGANTIC! This is the poster hall, with 1000s of posters covering a wide range of earth science topics… There are x2 poster sessions a day, over 5 days. With 27,000 registered attendees! 😳 (filmed during lunch, so only a few folk in this video).
@agu.org @ciresnews.bsky.social
@agu.org @ciresnews.bsky.social
‘Chill but passionate, like a polar bear at a climate summit’ ?!?!?
(Blueskyroast.com)
(Blueskyroast.com)
December 4, 2024 at 6:13 AM
‘Chill but passionate, like a polar bear at a climate summit’ ?!?!?
(Blueskyroast.com)
(Blueskyroast.com)
Lots of blue sky in #Boulder today! @ciresnews.bsky.social @colorado.edu @bouldercolorado.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Lots of blue sky in #Boulder today! @ciresnews.bsky.social @colorado.edu @bouldercolorado.bsky.social