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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · 6d

This is great, do you have any approximate date for the first releases?

Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22d

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/...

Polar stereographic map of sea surface temperature trends for Septembers from 1979 to 2024. Red shading is shown for warming trends, and blue shading is shown for cooling trends. All areas of the ocean are observing warming.

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · 22d

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...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 27d

📣📣 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! 🙏🙏

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · 29d

What remains of the former Fradusta Glacier (Pale di San Martino), in the Italian Dolomites.

Photos from Sept. 5, 2025

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Sep 6

A few snapshots of Travignolo #Glacier on Sept. 4, 2025. A small glacier nested in the Italian #Dolomites (Pale di San Martino).

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Aug 19

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/...

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

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Aug 12

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)

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Aug 2

Epic views from last Wednesday fieldwork in the Dolomites, close to Cima D'Uomo.

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Jul 21

Possibly the most unreachable webcam of the Julian Alps, monitoring the Canin East ice patch

#enlapse #julianalps #timelapse #cryosphere

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Jun 5

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?...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Jun 3

Fieldwork on Canin-Kanin East snow ice patch and surrounding areas. Photos from May 30th, 2025

#julianalps #kanin #massbalance

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · May 19

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...

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nicomaffe.bsky.social @nicomaffe.bsky.social · May 9

Glacier ice thickness maps produced globally with a machine learning system.

@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

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · May 6

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...

Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). 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. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Apr 30

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...

Warming stripes for deep ocean to upper stratosphere

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Apr 28

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 😞

Polar Geospatial Center @polargeospatial.bsky.social · Apr 28

📢 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

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Apr 16

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

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Apr 1

Sad news (but great work) from the Austrian Alps
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

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Mar 27

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/...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Feb 25

Marmolada Principale Glacier in 1980s and 2023, Italian #Dolomites

1980s photo from G. Zanon - I ghiacciai del Veneto

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Andrea Securo @andreasecuro.bsky.social · Feb 21

Antelao Superiore #Glacier (Italian #Dolomites), not aligned but you get the scale of the differences from more than 100 years ago. 1910-2024

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