That’s a wrap after 21 great years at Newcastle University! Although retired from full-time work I'll not be retiring from academia and am looking forward to working on a number of collaborative research projects.

We invite abstracts (deadline 13 June - tomorrow!) to our session 'Distributary landforms: past, present and future' at the IAG International Congress on Geomorphology Christchurch New Zealand, Feb 2026.
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Anya Leenman, Sam Woor, Andy Russell & Anastasia Piliouras

I’ve witnessed significant #glacier
recession in SE #Iceland over the past four decades accompanied by major changes in ice marginal processes and landscape. #WorldGlacierDay #InternationalYearofGlacierPreservation #Svínafellsjökull #Skeiðarárjökull

#Jökulhlaup en route through #Skeiðarárjökull from #Grímsvötn subglacial lake.
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Some photos of the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets on the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022.

Iceland Meteorological Office have provided a comprehensive summary of the ongoing seismic activity at #Bardarbunga as well as a range of possible scenarios for one of Iceland's biggest subglacial volcanoes.
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On this day in 2015 I took an overflight of some of the geomorphological impacts of #StormDesmond on the River Derwent, Cumbria, UK #FieldphotoFriday

High Force, Teesdale

#FieldPhotoFriday Flashback to our final year undergraduate Applied Fluvial Geomorphology field trip in October characterising the impacts of #StormAshley on the wandering gravel bed #RiverCoquet #Northumberland.

Celebrating Student Research Scholarships and Expeditions 2024 - Great evening hearing about the findings of this years Newcastle University Physical Geography Expeditions to Greenland and Bhutan.

For my inaugural post on Bluesky I thought I'd dig out some photos of ice-dammed lake drainage and jökulhlaup impacts from my PhD work at the Russell Glacier, west Greenland way back in 1987!