Becky McCerery
@beckymccerery.bsky.social
Glaciologist - biogeochemist - sedimentologist - avid mapper at Northumbria University, UK ❄️ She/Her
Currently working on: Biogeochemical cycles beneath the GrIS
https://rebeccamccerery.wixsite.com/website
Currently working on: Biogeochemical cycles beneath the GrIS
https://rebeccamccerery.wixsite.com/website
Our new paper is out in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social finally wrapping up a 2022 Svalbard season! Looking at microbial communities in different landforms and glacier types. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Microbial Communities in Sediments From Different Landform Systems, Svalbard
At the sequence level all glaciers and landforms were different in their biodiversity, only 72/1,268 sequences were detected in >2 samples Microbial richness was similar across all glacier locati...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Our new paper is out in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social finally wrapping up a 2022 Svalbard season! Looking at microbial communities in different landforms and glacier types. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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We have a new preprint out reviewing the monitoring & detection of Svalbard surging glaciers: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
We also compiled a new database of Svalbard's surge-type glaciers: zenodo.org/records/1524...
@dannipearce.bsky.social @hazlovell.bsky.social @adrianluckman.bsky.social
We also compiled a new database of Svalbard's surge-type glaciers: zenodo.org/records/1524...
@dannipearce.bsky.social @hazlovell.bsky.social @adrianluckman.bsky.social
Surging glaciers in Svalbard: Observing their distribution, characteristics and evolution
eartharxiv.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We have a new preprint out reviewing the monitoring & detection of Svalbard surging glaciers: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
We also compiled a new database of Svalbard's surge-type glaciers: zenodo.org/records/1524...
@dannipearce.bsky.social @hazlovell.bsky.social @adrianluckman.bsky.social
We also compiled a new database of Svalbard's surge-type glaciers: zenodo.org/records/1524...
@dannipearce.bsky.social @hazlovell.bsky.social @adrianluckman.bsky.social
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How can zombie microbes interact with the Earth system? 🦠🧟🌎
Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎
In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution
🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎
In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution
🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbial dormancy as an ecological and biogeochemical regulator on Earth - Nature Communications
Dormancy enables microbes to withstand periods of environmental harshness. It occurs throughout diverse ecosystems and spans vast timescales, and could play an important role in shaping the co-ev...
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
How can zombie microbes interact with the Earth system? 🦠🧟🌎
Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎
In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution
🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎
In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution
🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Peruvian scientist, conservationist, and National Geographic Explorer, Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, will give a public lecture about her work in the Amazon Rainforest.
📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle
💡 Discover more and register FREE here:
📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle
💡 Discover more and register FREE here:
The Spirit of the Rainforest
The Spirit of the Rainforest
www.northumbria.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Peruvian scientist, conservationist, and National Geographic Explorer, Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, will give a public lecture about her work in the Amazon Rainforest.
📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle
💡 Discover more and register FREE here:
📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle
💡 Discover more and register FREE here:
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Happy #WorldPenguinDay! 🐧🪶
Today we’re celebrating our favourite Antarctic co-workers. From curious onlookers near our research stations to the subjects of vital ecosystems studies, these charismatic birds are the true icons of Antarctica.
Today we’re celebrating our favourite Antarctic co-workers. From curious onlookers near our research stations to the subjects of vital ecosystems studies, these charismatic birds are the true icons of Antarctica.
April 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happy #WorldPenguinDay! 🐧🪶
Today we’re celebrating our favourite Antarctic co-workers. From curious onlookers near our research stations to the subjects of vital ecosystems studies, these charismatic birds are the true icons of Antarctica.
Today we’re celebrating our favourite Antarctic co-workers. From curious onlookers near our research stations to the subjects of vital ecosystems studies, these charismatic birds are the true icons of Antarctica.
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📣 The #Goldschmidt2025 conference program is now available! The schedule of sessions & presentations is now online.
To plan your week, browse the program by theme: buff.ly/1zvFrpU
or per day: buff.ly/8RQwc8M
Remember the presenter & early registration deadline is 21 May.
To plan your week, browse the program by theme: buff.ly/1zvFrpU
or per day: buff.ly/8RQwc8M
Remember the presenter & early registration deadline is 21 May.
April 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
📣 The #Goldschmidt2025 conference program is now available! The schedule of sessions & presentations is now online.
To plan your week, browse the program by theme: buff.ly/1zvFrpU
or per day: buff.ly/8RQwc8M
Remember the presenter & early registration deadline is 21 May.
To plan your week, browse the program by theme: buff.ly/1zvFrpU
or per day: buff.ly/8RQwc8M
Remember the presenter & early registration deadline is 21 May.
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Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right?
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
Change in iceberg calving behavior preceded North Sea ice shelf disintegration during the last deglaciation - Nature Communications
Massive tabular icebergs broke off of the UK during the last ice age. The widespread break-up of the ice shelves which produced these giant icebergs can be traced to around 18,000 years ago, and likel...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right?
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
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"In daily life I meet people who ask me if the Arctic is actually changing," says Iain Rudkin, Arctic Operations Manager for the British Antarctic Survey.
"I wish they could see how much it's lost so quickly."
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
"I wish they could see how much it's lost so quickly."
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Treading gently: The scientists who leave little trace at the world's northernmost lab
Scientists in the high Arctic are lifting their labs into the air to avoid damage from melting permafrost.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"In daily life I meet people who ask me if the Arctic is actually changing," says Iain Rudkin, Arctic Operations Manager for the British Antarctic Survey.
"I wish they could see how much it's lost so quickly."
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
"I wish they could see how much it's lost so quickly."
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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I have worked with the Global Glacier Casualty list to add two new stories this week on Darwin Glacier, Sierra Nevada of California and Ice Worm Glacier, North Cascades, Washington. Darwin Glacier was lost in 2022 and Ice Wrom Glacier in 2023.
glaciercasualtylist.rice.edu
glaciercasualtylist.rice.edu
April 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I have worked with the Global Glacier Casualty list to add two new stories this week on Darwin Glacier, Sierra Nevada of California and Ice Worm Glacier, North Cascades, Washington. Darwin Glacier was lost in 2022 and Ice Wrom Glacier in 2023.
glaciercasualtylist.rice.edu
glaciercasualtylist.rice.edu
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📢 6-month paid Masters internship available with me and @reymourot.bsky.social
Investigating Microbial Dormancy Responses to Stress Cycles in the Cryosphere ❄️🦠🧬😴🌡️
Join us in beautiful Marseille @mioceanologie.bsky.social ☀️🌊⛰️🇫🇷
#ERC_SIESTA
Apply by 15 April
RT
Link 👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/329851
Investigating Microbial Dormancy Responses to Stress Cycles in the Cryosphere ❄️🦠🧬😴🌡️
Join us in beautiful Marseille @mioceanologie.bsky.social ☀️🌊⛰️🇫🇷
#ERC_SIESTA
Apply by 15 April
RT
Link 👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/329851
M2 internship 2025-2026: Investigating Microbial Dormancy responses to stress cycles in the cryosphere
Supervisors: James A. BRADLEY (james.bradley@mio.osupytheas.fr) and Rey MOUROT (rey.mourot@mio.osupytheas.fr)
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
March 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📢 6-month paid Masters internship available with me and @reymourot.bsky.social
Investigating Microbial Dormancy Responses to Stress Cycles in the Cryosphere ❄️🦠🧬😴🌡️
Join us in beautiful Marseille @mioceanologie.bsky.social ☀️🌊⛰️🇫🇷
#ERC_SIESTA
Apply by 15 April
RT
Link 👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/329851
Investigating Microbial Dormancy Responses to Stress Cycles in the Cryosphere ❄️🦠🧬😴🌡️
Join us in beautiful Marseille @mioceanologie.bsky.social ☀️🌊⛰️🇫🇷
#ERC_SIESTA
Apply by 15 April
RT
Link 👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/329851
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⚠️ Daily average atmospheric #CarbonDioxide levels have exceeded 430ppm for the first time since records began, and likely for the first time in at least 3 million years according to @iccinet.bsky.social: pml.ac.uk/news/a-stark...
“A stark reminder”: Record-breaking CO2 Levels Recorded for Earth’s Polar Regions
The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) has announced that atmospheric CO2 levels surpassed the key threshold of 430 parts per million (ppm) for the first time.
pml.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
⚠️ Daily average atmospheric #CarbonDioxide levels have exceeded 430ppm for the first time since records began, and likely for the first time in at least 3 million years according to @iccinet.bsky.social: pml.ac.uk/news/a-stark...
Deadline is today to submit to our @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social session on biogeochemical processes in extreme environments!
We are running a session at Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague this July on biogeochemical processes in extreme environments. Abstract submissions are open until Feb 26th and we are particularly interested in seeing work re: #polarscience #polarchemistry and #polarmicrobiology
February 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Deadline is today to submit to our @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social session on biogeochemical processes in extreme environments!
Reposted by Becky McCerery
Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
August 31, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
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Proud to have contributed to the @royalsociety.org STEM Research Career roadmap yourstemcareerpath.royalsociety.org which celebrates diverse pathways into stem, changing sectors and disciplines etc.
Home — STEM Research Career Roadmap
yourstemcareerpath.royalsociety.org
February 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Proud to have contributed to the @royalsociety.org STEM Research Career roadmap yourstemcareerpath.royalsociety.org which celebrates diverse pathways into stem, changing sectors and disciplines etc.
Reposted by Becky McCerery
This Research Fellow post @northumbriauni.bsky.social is closing for applications this week!
Deadline 19/2/25
Love Earth Observation research?🛰️ Don't miss out! Apply now 👇
Deadline 19/2/25
Love Earth Observation research?🛰️ Don't miss out! Apply now 👇
Looking for your next role in Earth Observation research?🛰️ 🌍
The UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) has just advertised a new research fellow position 👇
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
#sciencejobs #careersinSTEM #academiajobs
The UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) has just advertised a new research fellow position 👇
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
#sciencejobs #careersinSTEM #academiajobs
February 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This Research Fellow post @northumbriauni.bsky.social is closing for applications this week!
Deadline 19/2/25
Love Earth Observation research?🛰️ Don't miss out! Apply now 👇
Deadline 19/2/25
Love Earth Observation research?🛰️ Don't miss out! Apply now 👇
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Three-dimensional maps of glacier surfaces across Greenland reveal that cracks are growing rapidly where land ice meets the sea — and climate change is to blame
https://go.nature.com/419xEck
https://go.nature.com/419xEck
The Greenland Ice Sheet is fracturing faster than expected
Cracks in Greenland's glaciers deepened by climate change.
go.nature.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Three-dimensional maps of glacier surfaces across Greenland reveal that cracks are growing rapidly where land ice meets the sea — and climate change is to blame
https://go.nature.com/419xEck
https://go.nature.com/419xEck
I'm giving a talk at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social seminar series on best practice interventions for fieldwork focusing on toileting outdoors, menstruation and safeguarding - free tickets can be found here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... We'll be recording the talk too!
Best practice and interventions for accessible fieldwork - RGS
This session will cover best practice and positive interventions for fieldwork, with a focus on menstruation and menstrual health.
www.rgs.org
February 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I'm giving a talk at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social seminar series on best practice interventions for fieldwork focusing on toileting outdoors, menstruation and safeguarding - free tickets can be found here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... We'll be recording the talk too!
Reposted by Becky McCerery
A new iceberg, ~30x14 km in size, recently calved from the southern end of the George VI Ice Shelf. It's called A84 and is already making quite an impact, bumping into the Stange Ice Shelf over the weekend! These Copernicus Sentinel-1 images from Polar View show the new berg over the last few days.
February 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A new iceberg, ~30x14 km in size, recently calved from the southern end of the George VI Ice Shelf. It's called A84 and is already making quite an impact, bumping into the Stange Ice Shelf over the weekend! These Copernicus Sentinel-1 images from Polar View show the new berg over the last few days.
Reposted by Becky McCerery
The #Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. Research led by @tomchudley.bsky.social from @geogdurham.bsky.social found crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth in just five years 👉 bit.ly/4aKE8l7
@leverhulme.bsky.social #DUresearch
@leverhulme.bsky.social #DUresearch
February 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The #Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. Research led by @tomchudley.bsky.social from @geogdurham.bsky.social found crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth in just five years 👉 bit.ly/4aKE8l7
@leverhulme.bsky.social #DUresearch
@leverhulme.bsky.social #DUresearch
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A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID
February 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID
We are running a session at Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague this July on biogeochemical processes in extreme environments. Abstract submissions are open until Feb 26th and we are particularly interested in seeing work re: #polarscience #polarchemistry and #polarmicrobiology
February 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We are running a session at Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague this July on biogeochemical processes in extreme environments. Abstract submissions are open until Feb 26th and we are particularly interested in seeing work re: #polarscience #polarchemistry and #polarmicrobiology
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Multi-day, tuition-FREE expeditions for high school girls* blending science, art, and backcountry travel 🏔️
inspiringgirls.org/apply
📅 Deadlines:
Girls* on Ice Canada - 2/7
Girls* on Rock & Girls* in Icy Fjords - 2/9
Girls* on Ice Switzerland & Girls* on Ice Austria - 2/14
Girls* on Ice Alaska - 3/2
inspiringgirls.org/apply
📅 Deadlines:
Girls* on Ice Canada - 2/7
Girls* on Rock & Girls* in Icy Fjords - 2/9
Girls* on Ice Switzerland & Girls* on Ice Austria - 2/14
Girls* on Ice Alaska - 3/2
APPLY — Inspiring Girls Expeditions
inspiringgirls.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Multi-day, tuition-FREE expeditions for high school girls* blending science, art, and backcountry travel 🏔️
inspiringgirls.org/apply
📅 Deadlines:
Girls* on Ice Canada - 2/7
Girls* on Rock & Girls* in Icy Fjords - 2/9
Girls* on Ice Switzerland & Girls* on Ice Austria - 2/14
Girls* on Ice Alaska - 3/2
inspiringgirls.org/apply
📅 Deadlines:
Girls* on Ice Canada - 2/7
Girls* on Rock & Girls* in Icy Fjords - 2/9
Girls* on Ice Switzerland & Girls* on Ice Austria - 2/14
Girls* on Ice Alaska - 3/2
Reposted by Becky McCerery
Research led by our own @tomchudley.bsky.social has found that crevasses on Greenland Ice Sheet are increasing in size & depth – and may cause more rapid loss of ice from the region. Read more about Tom's work here: tinyurl.com/3mms3wau
Cracks in Greenland Ice Sheet growing more rapidly - Durham University
tinyurl.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Research led by our own @tomchudley.bsky.social has found that crevasses on Greenland Ice Sheet are increasing in size & depth – and may cause more rapid loss of ice from the region. Read more about Tom's work here: tinyurl.com/3mms3wau
Reposted by Becky McCerery
Beautiful Sentinel-2 imagery of George VI Ice Shelf with lots of meltwater from yesterday. The patterns that this water produces is like artwork! Fossil Bluff is shown in the second image, and Hodgson Lake shown in the last - a former subglacial lake sealed under ice thick perennial ice ❄️
January 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Beautiful Sentinel-2 imagery of George VI Ice Shelf with lots of meltwater from yesterday. The patterns that this water produces is like artwork! Fossil Bluff is shown in the second image, and Hodgson Lake shown in the last - a former subglacial lake sealed under ice thick perennial ice ❄️
Reposted by Becky McCerery
Some favourite penguins for #penguinawarenessday though I think some are more aware than others. Looking forward to getting back south to the penguins soon.
January 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Some favourite penguins for #penguinawarenessday though I think some are more aware than others. Looking forward to getting back south to the penguins soon.