Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊
@glaciocook.bsky.social
Research & teaching on Glaciers, Geohazards, Geomorphology, Climate Change at University of Dundee | https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/simon-cook
📘 New paper: Post-Little Ice Age Shrinkage of the Tsaneri–Nageba Glacier System and Recent Proglacial Lake Evolution in the Georgian Caucasus
📉Glacier shrank ~43% since ~1820
🌊Lake grew from ~14,000m² in 2015 to ~107,900 m² 2025
⚠️Hazard + water resources implications
www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...
📉Glacier shrank ~43% since ~1820
🌊Lake grew from ~14,000m² in 2015 to ~107,900 m² 2025
⚠️Hazard + water resources implications
www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
📘 New paper: Post-Little Ice Age Shrinkage of the Tsaneri–Nageba Glacier System and Recent Proglacial Lake Evolution in the Georgian Caucasus
📉Glacier shrank ~43% since ~1820
🌊Lake grew from ~14,000m² in 2015 to ~107,900 m² 2025
⚠️Hazard + water resources implications
www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...
📉Glacier shrank ~43% since ~1820
🌊Lake grew from ~14,000m² in 2015 to ~107,900 m² 2025
⚠️Hazard + water resources implications
www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...
Random thought. Thailand could pass for a glacier. Nice wide accumulation zone (though struggling in the mid section)
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Random thought. Thailand could pass for a glacier. Nice wide accumulation zone (though struggling in the mid section)
🏔️❄️New paper: “Multi-temporal DEMs used to quantify the geomorphological impact of a late 20th century glacier re-advance at Schwarzberggletscher, Switzerland”.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#glaciers #climatechange #sfm #geomorphology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#glaciers #climatechange #sfm #geomorphology
September 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🏔️❄️New paper: “Multi-temporal DEMs used to quantify the geomorphological impact of a late 20th century glacier re-advance at Schwarzberggletscher, Switzerland”.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#glaciers #climatechange #sfm #geomorphology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#glaciers #climatechange #sfm #geomorphology
Left high and dry, this former glacial meltwater channel was carved into the Sidlaw Hills just north of Dundee by the last ice sheet to occupy this region ~20,000 years ago. It’s one of several that i’ve been mapping with students & colleagues over the last couple of years.
September 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Left high and dry, this former glacial meltwater channel was carved into the Sidlaw Hills just north of Dundee by the last ice sheet to occupy this region ~20,000 years ago. It’s one of several that i’ve been mapping with students & colleagues over the last couple of years.
Northwest Scotland is hard to beat
August 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Northwest Scotland is hard to beat
🏔️🌊❄️NEW PAPER in Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences (NHESS)
Causes, consequences and implications of the 2023 landslide-induced Lake Rasac glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru.
nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
#glof #landslide #climatechange #climate #hazards
Causes, consequences and implications of the 2023 landslide-induced Lake Rasac glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru.
nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
#glof #landslide #climatechange #climate #hazards
April 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🏔️🌊❄️NEW PAPER in Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences (NHESS)
Causes, consequences and implications of the 2023 landslide-induced Lake Rasac glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru.
nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
#glof #landslide #climatechange #climate #hazards
Causes, consequences and implications of the 2023 landslide-induced Lake Rasac glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru.
nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
#glof #landslide #climatechange #climate #hazards
Magical morning yesterday at Loch Shiel, Glenfinnan 🏴 A 130m deep freshwater lake carved by glaciers
#scotland #lake #geography #geomorphology
#scotland #lake #geography #geomorphology
January 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Magical morning yesterday at Loch Shiel, Glenfinnan 🏴 A 130m deep freshwater lake carved by glaciers
#scotland #lake #geography #geomorphology
#scotland #lake #geography #geomorphology
Beautiful but cold day at Lunan Bay, Angus 🏴, yesterday. Parts of the beach and sand dunes were frozen.
January 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Beautiful but cold day at Lunan Bay, Angus 🏴, yesterday. Parts of the beach and sand dunes were frozen.
⛰️NEW PAPER⚒️
"Geology of the Mulkhura River Valley, Georgian Caucasus" in Geosciences: www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/14...
We present & describe a geological map of the area to enhance geohazard management (lots of landslides!), natural resource management, geoconservation & geotourism.
#geology #georgia
"Geology of the Mulkhura River Valley, Georgian Caucasus" in Geosciences: www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/14...
We present & describe a geological map of the area to enhance geohazard management (lots of landslides!), natural resource management, geoconservation & geotourism.
#geology #georgia
December 12, 2024 at 12:20 PM
⛰️NEW PAPER⚒️
"Geology of the Mulkhura River Valley, Georgian Caucasus" in Geosciences: www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/14...
We present & describe a geological map of the area to enhance geohazard management (lots of landslides!), natural resource management, geoconservation & geotourism.
#geology #georgia
"Geology of the Mulkhura River Valley, Georgian Caucasus" in Geosciences: www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/14...
We present & describe a geological map of the area to enhance geohazard management (lots of landslides!), natural resource management, geoconservation & geotourism.
#geology #georgia
November 29, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Good morning from #Dundee
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A view over to the ice sheet-sculpted Devonian volcanic hills of Fife.
#geology #geography
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A view over to the ice sheet-sculpted Devonian volcanic hills of Fife.
#geology #geography
November 28, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Good morning from #Dundee
❄️🥶🌅
A view over to the ice sheet-sculpted Devonian volcanic hills of Fife.
#geology #geography
❄️🥶🌅
A view over to the ice sheet-sculpted Devonian volcanic hills of Fife.
#geology #geography
👋 new followers!
I mostly post about the impacts of climate change on glacial & mountain regions.
I variously describe myself as a glaciologist, geomorphologist, geographer, geologist, natural hazard scientist. Take your pick!
I’m also on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok usually under glacio_cook
I mostly post about the impacts of climate change on glacial & mountain regions.
I variously describe myself as a glaciologist, geomorphologist, geographer, geologist, natural hazard scientist. Take your pick!
I’m also on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok usually under glacio_cook
November 18, 2024 at 8:40 PM
👋 new followers!
I mostly post about the impacts of climate change on glacial & mountain regions.
I variously describe myself as a glaciologist, geomorphologist, geographer, geologist, natural hazard scientist. Take your pick!
I’m also on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok usually under glacio_cook
I mostly post about the impacts of climate change on glacial & mountain regions.
I variously describe myself as a glaciologist, geomorphologist, geographer, geologist, natural hazard scientist. Take your pick!
I’m also on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok usually under glacio_cook
Some shots from recent fieldwork in the Peloponnese, Greece 🇬🇷
October 18, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Some shots from recent fieldwork in the Peloponnese, Greece 🇬🇷
Feel like my data are trying to tell me something #middlefinger
September 24, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Feel like my data are trying to tell me something #middlefinger
🏔️🌊NEW PAPER - Shaking up Assumptions: Earthquakes Have Rarely Triggered Andean Glacier Lake Outburst Floods - in Geophysical Research Letters, led by @eisstrom.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
April 5, 2024 at 7:17 AM
🏔️🌊NEW PAPER - Shaking up Assumptions: Earthquakes Have Rarely Triggered Andean Glacier Lake Outburst Floods - in Geophysical Research Letters, led by @eisstrom.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
🚨NEW PAPER🚨Investigating the past, present and future responses of Shallap and Zongo Glaciers, Tropical Andes, to the El Niño Southern Oscillation
In Journal of Glaciology
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In Journal of Glaciology
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 15, 2024 at 11:14 AM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨Investigating the past, present and future responses of Shallap and Zongo Glaciers, Tropical Andes, to the El Niño Southern Oscillation
In Journal of Glaciology
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In Journal of Glaciology
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Some glacial striations from Balgay Hill in #Dundee
Signs of glacial erosion from the last ice sheet to cover Scotland.
Signs of glacial erosion from the last ice sheet to cover Scotland.
February 12, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Some glacial striations from Balgay Hill in #Dundee
Signs of glacial erosion from the last ice sheet to cover Scotland.
Signs of glacial erosion from the last ice sheet to cover Scotland.
#Dundee doing its thing this afternoon
January 5, 2024 at 4:14 PM
#Dundee doing its thing this afternoon
Wintry #Dundee today
December 2, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Wintry #Dundee today
Local stream, the Dighty Burn, now at record levels #StormBabet #Dundee
October 20, 2023 at 7:11 AM
Local stream, the Dighty Burn, now at record levels #StormBabet #Dundee
Led my 1st year #EnvironmentalScience students yesterday into the belly of a weathered-out volcanic cone at Elie, Fife 🏴 Was active during the Carboniferous and early Permian. Lots of tuff and pyroclastic deposits 🌋🪨
October 11, 2023 at 9:19 AM
Led my 1st year #EnvironmentalScience students yesterday into the belly of a weathered-out volcanic cone at Elie, Fife 🏴 Was active during the Carboniferous and early Permian. Lots of tuff and pyroclastic deposits 🌋🪨
Watch out for the polar bear!
October 8, 2023 at 6:31 AM
Watch out for the polar bear!
⛰️NEW PAPER⛰️
"A universal size classification system for landslides", in Landslides
🏔️Size is a basic property of #landslides, but we show it is described v inconsistently
🗻We devise a new, consistent size scheme
We hope it's useful!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"A universal size classification system for landslides", in Landslides
🏔️Size is a basic property of #landslides, but we show it is described v inconsistently
🗻We devise a new, consistent size scheme
We hope it's useful!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 5, 2023 at 7:54 PM
⛰️NEW PAPER⛰️
"A universal size classification system for landslides", in Landslides
🏔️Size is a basic property of #landslides, but we show it is described v inconsistently
🗻We devise a new, consistent size scheme
We hope it's useful!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"A universal size classification system for landslides", in Landslides
🏔️Size is a basic property of #landslides, but we show it is described v inconsistently
🗻We devise a new, consistent size scheme
We hope it's useful!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...