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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Apr 16

I can recommend this: www.outlookgooglecalendarsync.com

Sync your Outlook and Google calendars securely and for free! Can include meeting attendees, reminders, full description and more. Ideal for liberating your corporate Exchange calendar, making it avai...

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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Mar 17

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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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Feb 28

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 🧪🌍🌐

The progress flag in the shape of a shield against an outdoorsy background, titled "Pride guidelines: pointers for research that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable for LGBTQ+ fieldworkers"

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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Feb 4

Yes please - Scott Watson, University of Leeds

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Connie Harpur @connieharpur.bsky.social · Feb 3

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

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Jan 30

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...

Photograph showing automobiles and buildings buried under the sediments deposited by the flood cascade at Rangpo. Photo credits: Praful Rao

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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · Jan 30

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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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Dec 28

Through the puddle on the Boxing Day Chevin Chase 7m

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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · Dec 12

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...

Change in the LHI from 1990–2014 to 2091–2100 for the high mountains of Asia the two climate scenarios. Both show elevated occurrence of landslides across a wide area. From Stanley et al. (2024).

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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 21

Priority for those with tickets for tomorrow? I think it means prepare for another day of waiting in my experience. 🤞for VFR tomorrow

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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 20

🚨PhD opportunity - Reducing uncertainty in glacial lake outburst flood risk and decision making. Funding and application through UNRISK unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/red...

C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 20

🚨 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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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 20

🚨 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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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 19

Normal service will resume shortly

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · Nov 18

Diverse groups do better science. Happy #PolarPride #LGBTQinSTEM day!

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James Lea @jamesmlea.bsky.social · Nov 18

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...

Selfie of me wearing Polar Pride pin badge

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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 17

9 years ago. Retrieving temperature loggers from a frozen supraglacial pond on Khumbu Glacier, Nepal

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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 16

This was Dowley Gap. I didn't know about the parrot!

C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 16

Kingfisher number 2 somewhere in the distance

C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 16

Breakfast time for the kingfisher on the Leeds Liverpool canal

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Joe Mallalieu @joemallalieu.bsky.social · Nov 14

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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A cloud of volcanic ash emitting from the summit caldera of the glacier covered Mt Redoubt, Alaska during a 2009 eruption. Credit USGS.

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C. Scott Watson @cscottwatson.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hello Bluesky! Enjoy a photo overlooking Quito, Ecuador. Taken during the kick off meeting for the Tomorrow's Cities project in 2019.

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