Thanks Connie, although I think @geomorphmark.bsky.social deserves at least some credit/blame for suggesting I try this in the first place!

Hi Nick - could you add me to the starter pack? Thanks for setting it up!

Hi Dan - could you also add me to the starter pack? Thanks for setting it up!

For further details please read the paper using the link above or get in touch. There will be plenty more to come on this subject!

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…therefore, increases in glacier velocities (as monitored by satellites) may provide advance warning of volcanic activity and eruptions. This is useful because ice-covered volcanoes are amongst the most dangerous globally and the most difficult to monitor.

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We think this is likely due to higher levels of geothermal heating near volcanoes melting the base of overlying glaciers, causing them to slide faster than other glaciers. This is important because volcanoes can exhibit increased volcanic heating months ahead of an eruption…

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When controlling for other environmental variables, we find that glaciers within 5 km of an active volcano have median velocities 46% greater than those of other glaciers and that, for glaciers near active volcanoes, velocities further increase with proximity to the volcano.

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In the paper we pull together glacier, volcano and climate data for the world’s 217,000 glaciers to isolate the effect of volcano proximity on glacier flow for the period 2017-2018.

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Thanks to our team at the University of Birmingham, Manchester Metropolitan University, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social, Queen's University Belfast and Dickinson College, and our funders @leverhulme.bsky.social

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