Andrea Securo
@andreasecuro.bsky.social
PhD student at Ca' Foscari | Glaciology, Remote Sensing and Geomorphology
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Ice-free conditions continue in the Barents Sea region of the #Arctic Ocean. This is one area that has observed some of the largest losses of ice over the last few decades... compare the older years (dark/purple lines) to today!
Map of this region: zacklabe.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/b203...
Map of this region: zacklabe.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/b203...
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Ice-free conditions continue in the Barents Sea region of the #Arctic Ocean. This is one area that has observed some of the largest losses of ice over the last few decades... compare the older years (dark/purple lines) to today!
Map of this region: zacklabe.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/b203...
Map of this region: zacklabe.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/b203...
Relict rock glaciers and other periglacial landforms close to San Pellegrino pass, Italian Dolomites.
More info: www.gfdq.glaciologia.it/index.php/GF...
More info: www.gfdq.glaciologia.it/index.php/GF...
October 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Relict rock glaciers and other periglacial landforms close to San Pellegrino pass, Italian Dolomites.
More info: www.gfdq.glaciologia.it/index.php/GF...
More info: www.gfdq.glaciologia.it/index.php/GF...
A 3D animation from our last paper. We compared GPR ice thickness data with modelling approaches in two polythermal glaciers in W-Greenland.
Check it out: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
3D Data: Pléiades © CNES 2019, Distribution Airbus D&S
Check it out: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
3D Data: Pléiades © CNES 2019, Distribution Airbus D&S
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A 3D animation from our last paper. We compared GPR ice thickness data with modelling approaches in two polythermal glaciers in W-Greenland.
Check it out: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
3D Data: Pléiades © CNES 2019, Distribution Airbus D&S
Check it out: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
3D Data: Pléiades © CNES 2019, Distribution Airbus D&S
Reposted by Andrea Securo
Sea surface temperatures are warming across the entire periphery of the #Arctic Ocean in September.
This is especially observed in areas with long-term declines in sea ice concentration, such around the Chukchi and Kara Seas.
Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1. For more info arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
This is especially observed in areas with long-term declines in sea ice concentration, such around the Chukchi and Kara Seas.
Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1. For more info arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
September 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Sea surface temperatures are warming across the entire periphery of the #Arctic Ocean in September.
This is especially observed in areas with long-term declines in sea ice concentration, such around the Chukchi and Kara Seas.
Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1. For more info arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
This is especially observed in areas with long-term declines in sea ice concentration, such around the Chukchi and Kara Seas.
Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1. For more info arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
Our new paper compares GPR ice thickness data with models and looks at glacier thermal structures in Greenland, showing that thermal complexity (warm-cold ice) inside these glaciers is higher than expected.
Read it here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read it here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Our new paper compares GPR ice thickness data with models and looks at glacier thermal structures in Greenland, showing that thermal complexity (warm-cold ice) inside these glaciers is higher than expected.
Read it here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read it here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Andrea Securo
📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰
I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign!
Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍
I need your help! 🤍
To learn more:
wemakeit.com/projects/gla...
🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏
I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign!
Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍
I need your help! 🤍
To learn more:
wemakeit.com/projects/gla...
🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏
September 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰
I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign!
Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍
I need your help! 🤍
To learn more:
wemakeit.com/projects/gla...
🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏
I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign!
Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍
I need your help! 🤍
To learn more:
wemakeit.com/projects/gla...
🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏
What remains of the former Fradusta Glacier (Pale di San Martino), in the Italian Dolomites.
Photos from Sept. 5, 2025
Photos from Sept. 5, 2025
September 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What remains of the former Fradusta Glacier (Pale di San Martino), in the Italian Dolomites.
Photos from Sept. 5, 2025
Photos from Sept. 5, 2025
A few snapshots of Travignolo #Glacier on Sept. 4, 2025. A small glacier nested in the Italian #Dolomites (Pale di San Martino).
September 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
A few snapshots of Travignolo #Glacier on Sept. 4, 2025. A small glacier nested in the Italian #Dolomites (Pale di San Martino).
Reposted by Andrea Securo
2024 glacier loss in Svalbard was beyond imagination! 😱
- Anomaly of up to 4 SD!
- Amounts to ~61.7 Gt => 1% of the total ice volume
- Comparable to that of the Greenland ice sheet (55 Gt), which is 50 x larger!
... Otherworldly! 🪐
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Anomaly of up to 4 SD!
- Amounts to ~61.7 Gt => 1% of the total ice volume
- Comparable to that of the Greenland ice sheet (55 Gt), which is 50 x larger!
... Otherworldly! 🪐
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Svalbard’s 2024 record summer: An early view of Arctic glacier meltdown? | PNAS
A record-breaking melt season affected the Arctic glaciers of Svalbard in summer 2024
by a substantial margin. Across the entire archipelago, glaci...
www.pnas.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
2024 glacier loss in Svalbard was beyond imagination! 😱
- Anomaly of up to 4 SD!
- Amounts to ~61.7 Gt => 1% of the total ice volume
- Comparable to that of the Greenland ice sheet (55 Gt), which is 50 x larger!
... Otherworldly! 🪐
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Anomaly of up to 4 SD!
- Amounts to ~61.7 Gt => 1% of the total ice volume
- Comparable to that of the Greenland ice sheet (55 Gt), which is 50 x larger!
... Otherworldly! 🪐
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Canin East Ice Patch in the Italian Julian Alps and the AWS nearby, managed by the Alpine-Adriatic Meteorological Society. Photo from last friday (Aug 8)
August 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Canin East Ice Patch in the Italian Julian Alps and the AWS nearby, managed by the Alpine-Adriatic Meteorological Society. Photo from last friday (Aug 8)
Epic views from last Wednesday fieldwork in the Dolomites, close to Cima D'Uomo.
August 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Epic views from last Wednesday fieldwork in the Dolomites, close to Cima D'Uomo.
Possibly the most unreachable webcam of the Julian Alps, monitoring the Canin East ice patch
#enlapse #julianalps #timelapse #cryosphere
#enlapse #julianalps #timelapse #cryosphere
July 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Possibly the most unreachable webcam of the Julian Alps, monitoring the Canin East ice patch
#enlapse #julianalps #timelapse #cryosphere
#enlapse #julianalps #timelapse #cryosphere
360 views of Canin-Kanin East Ice Patch in May 2025 and November 2024. Julian Alps.
360 from May 2025: kuula.co/share/hDl8k?...
360 from Nov 2024: kuula.co/share/hDYR4?...
360 from May 2025: kuula.co/share/hDl8k?...
360 from Nov 2024: kuula.co/share/hDYR4?...
June 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
360 views of Canin-Kanin East Ice Patch in May 2025 and November 2024. Julian Alps.
360 from May 2025: kuula.co/share/hDl8k?...
360 from Nov 2024: kuula.co/share/hDYR4?...
360 from May 2025: kuula.co/share/hDl8k?...
360 from Nov 2024: kuula.co/share/hDYR4?...
Reposted by Andrea Securo
Close up heli view of the former Klein Nesthorn ridge yesterday! 🚁😲
The summit ridge has lost more than 100 m in elevation and its north face ~130 m! 😱
All this mass ended up on the glacier, causing it to break up! 🌊
📷 D. Farinotti - @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
The summit ridge has lost more than 100 m in elevation and its north face ~130 m! 😱
All this mass ended up on the glacier, causing it to break up! 🌊
📷 D. Farinotti - @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Close up heli view of the former Klein Nesthorn ridge yesterday! 🚁😲
The summit ridge has lost more than 100 m in elevation and its north face ~130 m! 😱
All this mass ended up on the glacier, causing it to break up! 🌊
📷 D. Farinotti - @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
The summit ridge has lost more than 100 m in elevation and its north face ~130 m! 😱
All this mass ended up on the glacier, causing it to break up! 🌊
📷 D. Farinotti - @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
Fieldwork on Canin-Kanin East snow ice patch and surrounding areas. Photos from May 30th, 2025
#julianalps #kanin #massbalance
#julianalps #kanin #massbalance
June 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Fieldwork on Canin-Kanin East snow ice patch and surrounding areas. Photos from May 30th, 2025
#julianalps #kanin #massbalance
#julianalps #kanin #massbalance
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Already + 100,000 m3 fallen from the Klein Nesthorn N face at ~3200 m asl, and something between 1 to 5 Millions m3 more are 'forecasted'... 😱
That's quite a thing!
Blatten village evacuated 😭
The 'Crumblocene' is definitely a nice time to live! 🏔️🌊
www.20min.ch/fr/story/can...
That's quite a thing!
Blatten village evacuated 😭
The 'Crumblocene' is definitely a nice time to live! 🏔️🌊
www.20min.ch/fr/story/can...
May 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Already + 100,000 m3 fallen from the Klein Nesthorn N face at ~3200 m asl, and something between 1 to 5 Millions m3 more are 'forecasted'... 😱
That's quite a thing!
Blatten village evacuated 😭
The 'Crumblocene' is definitely a nice time to live! 🏔️🌊
www.20min.ch/fr/story/can...
That's quite a thing!
Blatten village evacuated 😭
The 'Crumblocene' is definitely a nice time to live! 🏔️🌊
www.20min.ch/fr/story/can...
Reposted by Andrea Securo
Glacier ice thickness maps produced globally with a machine learning system.
@ucirvine.bsky.social @unive Ca' Foscari
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
@ucirvine.bsky.social @unive Ca' Foscari
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
A gradient-boosted tree framework to model the ice thickness of the world's glaciers (IceBoost v1.1)
Abstract. Knowledge of glacier ice volumes is crucial for constraining future sea level potential, evaluating freshwater resources, and assessing impacts on societies, from regional to global. Motivat...
gmd.copernicus.org
May 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Glacier ice thickness maps produced globally with a machine learning system.
@ucirvine.bsky.social @unive Ca' Foscari
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
@ucirvine.bsky.social @unive Ca' Foscari
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
Reposted by Andrea Securo
This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
Reposted by Andrea Securo
The Warming Stripes have now been extended downwards into the ocean and upwards into the stratosphere!
Collaborative paper which tells the story of how the stripes were developed, and discusses their extension across the Earth system, is now available in BAMS: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Collaborative paper which tells the story of how the stripes were developed, and discusses their extension across the Earth system, is now available in BAMS: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
April 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The Warming Stripes have now been extended downwards into the ocean and upwards into the stratosphere!
Collaborative paper which tells the story of how the stripes were developed, and discusses their extension across the Earth system, is now available in BAMS: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Collaborative paper which tells the story of how the stripes were developed, and discusses their extension across the Earth system, is now available in BAMS: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
It's so sad to see that this incredible dataset, which has redefined how we approach many Arctic-related studies, may not be updated in the future 😞
📢 The final ArcticDEM & REMA release is here - and it might be the last. Funding cuts put vital polar data at risk. Help us rally support: take the survey! 🔗https://z.umn.edu/pgc-dem-survey #PolarScience #SavePolarData
April 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's so sad to see that this incredible dataset, which has redefined how we approach many Arctic-related studies, may not be updated in the future 😞
I finally tried Gaussian Splatting using some handheld photos taken inside an ice cave. In just 10 minutes of training-rendering, the results were stunning, impressive! 😁 For now only for visual purposes...
#gaussiansplatting #icecave #digitaltwin
#gaussiansplatting #icecave #digitaltwin
April 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I finally tried Gaussian Splatting using some handheld photos taken inside an ice cave. In just 10 minutes of training-rendering, the results were stunning, impressive! 😁 For now only for visual purposes...
#gaussiansplatting #icecave #digitaltwin
#gaussiansplatting #icecave #digitaltwin
Sad news (but great work) from the Austrian Alps
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
Recent observations and glacier modeling point towards near-complete glacier loss in western Austria (Ötztal and Stubai mountain range) if 1.5 °C is not met
Abstract. Most glaciers in Austria are expected to disappear in the coming decades. The general trend to deglaciation is apparent from observations of past glacier change as well as projections of fut...
tc.copernicus.org
April 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Sad news (but great work) from the Austrian Alps
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
Check out our latest work from the Dolomites. We tried to estimate the mass balance of the remaining Dolomites glaciers since the 1980s using LiDAR, SfM and historical imagery. No surprise: huge mass loss, shrinking area, and increasing debris cover.
Paper: tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
Paper: tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
March 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Check out our latest work from the Dolomites. We tried to estimate the mass balance of the remaining Dolomites glaciers since the 1980s using LiDAR, SfM and historical imagery. No surprise: huge mass loss, shrinking area, and increasing debris cover.
Paper: tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
Paper: tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
Reposted by Andrea Securo
Pisgana West (Adamello, IT)
1990 | 2021
Remember the 1990s? ⌚️❄️
Seems so far away from a glaciological point of view! 😱
And the most recent pic here was taken before the recent record-breaking heatwaves which wiped out 10% of Alpine ice in just 2 years! 🔥
📷 Servizio Glaciologico Lombardo
1990 | 2021
Remember the 1990s? ⌚️❄️
Seems so far away from a glaciological point of view! 😱
And the most recent pic here was taken before the recent record-breaking heatwaves which wiped out 10% of Alpine ice in just 2 years! 🔥
📷 Servizio Glaciologico Lombardo
February 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Pisgana West (Adamello, IT)
1990 | 2021
Remember the 1990s? ⌚️❄️
Seems so far away from a glaciological point of view! 😱
And the most recent pic here was taken before the recent record-breaking heatwaves which wiped out 10% of Alpine ice in just 2 years! 🔥
📷 Servizio Glaciologico Lombardo
1990 | 2021
Remember the 1990s? ⌚️❄️
Seems so far away from a glaciological point of view! 😱
And the most recent pic here was taken before the recent record-breaking heatwaves which wiped out 10% of Alpine ice in just 2 years! 🔥
📷 Servizio Glaciologico Lombardo
Marmolada Principale Glacier in 1980s and 2023, Italian #Dolomites
1980s photo from G. Zanon - I ghiacciai del Veneto
1980s photo from G. Zanon - I ghiacciai del Veneto
February 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Marmolada Principale Glacier in 1980s and 2023, Italian #Dolomites
1980s photo from G. Zanon - I ghiacciai del Veneto
1980s photo from G. Zanon - I ghiacciai del Veneto