C. Scott Watson
@cscottwatson.bsky.social
UKRI FLF ǀ Remote sensing ǀ Natural hazards ǀ Glacial Lakes ǀ Glaciers ǀ Himalaya ǀ Nepal ǀ http://glacial-lake-observatory.org
🌍🏔️ PhD Opportunities in Glacial Lake Research! ❄️🌊
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November 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
🌍🏔️ PhD Opportunities in Glacial Lake Research! ❄️🌊
1️⃣ 🔗 yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
2️⃣ 🔗 unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/red...
1️⃣ 🔗 yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
2️⃣ 🔗 unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/red...
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As #COP30 heats up, superb visual storytelling in @nytimes.com about climate change & the threat of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya, featuring the work of @cscottwatson.bsky.social and quotes from @kristencook.bsky.social @sonamshp.bsky.social and me. 🧪⚒️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Melting Glaciers in the Himalayas Feed Lakes That Threaten Towns Below (Gift Article)
Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As #COP30 heats up, superb visual storytelling in @nytimes.com about climate change & the threat of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya, featuring the work of @cscottwatson.bsky.social and quotes from @kristencook.bsky.social @sonamshp.bsky.social and me. 🧪⚒️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Join us water@leeds talking about glaciology, remote sensing, hydrology, geomorphology, hazards, and ecology for World Day for Glacier and World Water Day. 21 March 13:00-14:30 GMT. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3ed65f...
March 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Join us water@leeds talking about glaciology, remote sensing, hydrology, geomorphology, hazards, and ecology for World Day for Glacier and World Water Day. 21 March 13:00-14:30 GMT. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3ed65f...
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New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐
February 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐
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Ice-marginal lakes across #Greenland- why do they matter?! 🇬🇱🧊 🌊
Our article in Geography introduces the importance of these chilly lakes and their impact on ice sheet change.
Read on for an IML crash-course plus some cool classroom tips ❄️💻✏️
@joemallalieu.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Z4jUh
Our article in Geography introduces the importance of these chilly lakes and their impact on ice sheet change.
Read on for an IML crash-course plus some cool classroom tips ❄️💻✏️
@joemallalieu.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Z4jUh
February 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ice-marginal lakes across #Greenland- why do they matter?! 🇬🇱🧊 🌊
Our article in Geography introduces the importance of these chilly lakes and their impact on ice sheet change.
Read on for an IML crash-course plus some cool classroom tips ❄️💻✏️
@joemallalieu.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Z4jUh
Our article in Geography introduces the importance of these chilly lakes and their impact on ice sheet change.
Read on for an IML crash-course plus some cool classroom tips ❄️💻✏️
@joemallalieu.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Z4jUh
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New paper today in @science.org focused on unraveling the chain of events that led to the 2023 Teesta disaster, which resulted in about 130 people either dead or missing in Sikkim, India. Short thread to follow. 🧪⚒️ doi.org/10.1126/scie...
January 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
New paper today in @science.org focused on unraveling the chain of events that led to the 2023 Teesta disaster, which resulted in about 130 people either dead or missing in Sikkim, India. Short thread to follow. 🧪⚒️ doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Our new paper in Science (Sattar et al 2025) analyses the causes, process and impacts of the 3-4 October 2023 landslide-triggered GLOF along the Teesta River in Northern India. This was an amazing event - I've provided a summary of the research on the Landslide Blog:- eos.org/thelandslide...
The 3-4 October 2023 Sikkim GLOF
Our new paper in the journal Science analyses the terrible landslide-triggered (GLOF) that struck India late in 2023.
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January 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Our new paper in Science (Sattar et al 2025) analyses the causes, process and impacts of the 3-4 October 2023 landslide-triggered GLOF along the Teesta River in Northern India. This was an amazing event - I've provided a summary of the research on the Landslide Blog:- eos.org/thelandslide...
Through the puddle on the Boxing Day Chevin Chase 7m
December 28, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Through the puddle on the Boxing Day Chevin Chase 7m
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A really interesting paper in the AGU journal Earth's Future (Stanley et al. 2024) suggests that landslide hazard in the high mountains of Asia will increase under the effects of climate change.
More information on the Landslide Blog:- eos.org/thelandslide...
More information on the Landslide Blog:- eos.org/thelandslide...
December 12, 2024 at 8:20 AM
A really interesting paper in the AGU journal Earth's Future (Stanley et al. 2024) suggests that landslide hazard in the high mountains of Asia will increase under the effects of climate change.
More information on the Landslide Blog:- eos.org/thelandslide...
More information on the Landslide Blog:- eos.org/thelandslide...
🚨PhD opportunity - Reducing uncertainty in glacial lake outburst flood risk and decision making. Funding and application through UNRISK unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/red...
November 20, 2024 at 1:08 PM
🚨PhD opportunity - Reducing uncertainty in glacial lake outburst flood risk and decision making. Funding and application through UNRISK unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/red...
🚨 PhD opportunity - Interactions between glacier loss, proglacial lake development and downstream river ecosystems. Funding and application through YES DTN yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/int... 🧪 ⚒️
Interactions between glacier loss, proglacial lake development and downstream river ecosystems - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
As glaciers retreat worldwide, large numbers of new mountain lakes are forming. Directed studies are needed to understand how ecosystems can be expected to respond to future changes in glacier runoff ...
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November 20, 2024 at 11:39 AM
🚨 PhD opportunity - Interactions between glacier loss, proglacial lake development and downstream river ecosystems. Funding and application through YES DTN yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/int... 🧪 ⚒️
🚨 PhD opportunity - The future of Himalayan glacial lakes: uncovering subsurface features and instabilities with fieldwork and remote sensing observations. Funding and application through YES DTN yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the... 🧪 ⚒️
The future of Himalayan glacial lakes: uncovering subsurface features and instabilities with fieldwork and remote sensing observations - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Project background This project will analyse field-based (Nepal) and earth observation data to explore key glacial lake characteristics that can be used to inform glacier evolution and disaster risk r...
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November 20, 2024 at 11:33 AM
🚨 PhD opportunity - The future of Himalayan glacial lakes: uncovering subsurface features and instabilities with fieldwork and remote sensing observations. Funding and application through YES DTN yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the... 🧪 ⚒️
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November 19, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Normal service will resume shortly
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Diverse groups do better science. Happy #PolarPride #LGBTQinSTEM day!
November 18, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Diverse groups do better science. Happy #PolarPride #LGBTQinSTEM day!
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Rocking my #PolarPride
badge ahead of an exciting day of science in Copenhagen!
If you want to find out more about why Pride matters for polar research, last year I wrote a blog post about being LGBTQ+ in polar science and the progress that is yet to be made
www.polarregions.co.uk/post/why-pri...
badge ahead of an exciting day of science in Copenhagen!
If you want to find out more about why Pride matters for polar research, last year I wrote a blog post about being LGBTQ+ in polar science and the progress that is yet to be made
www.polarregions.co.uk/post/why-pri...
November 18, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Rocking my #PolarPride
badge ahead of an exciting day of science in Copenhagen!
If you want to find out more about why Pride matters for polar research, last year I wrote a blog post about being LGBTQ+ in polar science and the progress that is yet to be made
www.polarregions.co.uk/post/why-pri...
badge ahead of an exciting day of science in Copenhagen!
If you want to find out more about why Pride matters for polar research, last year I wrote a blog post about being LGBTQ+ in polar science and the progress that is yet to be made
www.polarregions.co.uk/post/why-pri...
9 years ago. Retrieving temperature loggers from a frozen supraglacial pond on Khumbu Glacier, Nepal
November 17, 2024 at 11:07 AM
9 years ago. Retrieving temperature loggers from a frozen supraglacial pond on Khumbu Glacier, Nepal
Kingfisher number 2 somewhere in the distance
November 16, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Kingfisher number 2 somewhere in the distance
Breakfast time for the kingfisher on the Leeds Liverpool canal
November 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Breakfast time for the kingfisher on the Leeds Liverpool canal
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I'm pleased to announce our exciting new paper in Comms Earth & Environment: 'Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity', in which we find glaciers located near volcanoes flow almost 50% faster than those located elsewhere. @natureportfolio.bsky.social
Available here: rdcu.be/dZ0Ie
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Available here: rdcu.be/dZ0Ie
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November 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM
I'm pleased to announce our exciting new paper in Comms Earth & Environment: 'Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity', in which we find glaciers located near volcanoes flow almost 50% faster than those located elsewhere. @natureportfolio.bsky.social
Available here: rdcu.be/dZ0Ie
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Available here: rdcu.be/dZ0Ie
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Hello Bluesky! Enjoy a photo overlooking Quito, Ecuador. Taken during the kick off meeting for the Tomorrow's Cities project in 2019.
November 13, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Hello Bluesky! Enjoy a photo overlooking Quito, Ecuador. Taken during the kick off meeting for the Tomorrow's Cities project in 2019.