Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova
@glacierhazard.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Utah | Mountain glaciers & glacier hazards
Mountain photography ~ Mental health in academia ~ International student support
Mountain photography ~ Mental health in academia ~ International student support
Some people said my AGU poster actually looks good, I’ll take it haha
My first PhD paper draft is almost done (not sure tho). There will definitely be more zoomed-in maps…
My first PhD paper draft is almost done (not sure tho). There will definitely be more zoomed-in maps…
December 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Some people said my AGU poster actually looks good, I’ll take it haha
My first PhD paper draft is almost done (not sure tho). There will definitely be more zoomed-in maps…
My first PhD paper draft is almost done (not sure tho). There will definitely be more zoomed-in maps…
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🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share!
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
nserc-crsng.canada.ca
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share!
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
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New cires.colorado.edu research shows that winter clouds in the Arctic may be warming the region more than expected. ☁️
Using surface observations from Alaska’s North Slope, scientists uncovered how shifting cloud patterns are influencing rising temperatures.
Read more ↓
https://bit.ly/3MtD4tQ
Using surface observations from Alaska’s North Slope, scientists uncovered how shifting cloud patterns are influencing rising temperatures.
Read more ↓
https://bit.ly/3MtD4tQ
Long-term surface observations reveal clouds play key role in Arctic winter warming
Ground-based measurements from Alaska's North Slope offer a new perspective on how changing Arctic clouds impact rising temperatures on Earth's surface.
www.colorado.edu
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
New cires.colorado.edu research shows that winter clouds in the Arctic may be warming the region more than expected. ☁️
Using surface observations from Alaska’s North Slope, scientists uncovered how shifting cloud patterns are influencing rising temperatures.
Read more ↓
https://bit.ly/3MtD4tQ
Using surface observations from Alaska’s North Slope, scientists uncovered how shifting cloud patterns are influencing rising temperatures.
Read more ↓
https://bit.ly/3MtD4tQ
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Join CLaSH at #AGU2025!
📘Wed: EPSP session: Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes
🌟Thu: Town Hall — Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH): Next Steps and Opportunities for Engagement
Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
#CLaSH #LandSurfaceHazards #EarthScience
📘Wed: EPSP session: Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes
🌟Thu: Town Hall — Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH): Next Steps and Opportunities for Engagement
Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
#CLaSH #LandSurfaceHazards #EarthScience
Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH): Next Steps and Opportunities for Engagement
Landslides and floods are examples of surface processes that contribute to cascading hazards – sequences of events in which one geohazard triggers another, resulting in cumulative impacts that are mor...
agu.confex.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Join CLaSH at #AGU2025!
📘Wed: EPSP session: Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes
🌟Thu: Town Hall — Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH): Next Steps and Opportunities for Engagement
Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
#CLaSH #LandSurfaceHazards #EarthScience
📘Wed: EPSP session: Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes
🌟Thu: Town Hall — Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH): Next Steps and Opportunities for Engagement
Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
#CLaSH #LandSurfaceHazards #EarthScience
No fun at AGU this year? It was expected, but still…
Take me to EGU 😪
Take me to EGU 😪
December 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
No fun at AGU this year? It was expected, but still…
Take me to EGU 😪
Take me to EGU 😪
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It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
It’s interesting to see how many ice avalanches occurred due to earthquake and aftershocks!
Yesterday, a M7.0 earthquake struck the Alaska-Canada border, directly beneath the Hubbard Glacier. Aftershocks reveal an unmapped fault in this already complex area.
Read our post for more, & also:
What happens when a fault offsets a glacier?
Is the glacier named after one of my ancestors?
⚒️ 🧪
Read our post for more, & also:
What happens when a fault offsets a glacier?
Is the glacier named after one of my ancestors?
⚒️ 🧪
M7.0 earthquake strikes Alaska-Canada border
Aftershocks suggest an unmapped fault beneath the Hubbard Glacier
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It’s interesting to see how many ice avalanches occurred due to earthquake and aftershocks!
While finalizing my class project on active remote sensing for glaciers, I ran into this animation again. Ten years ago I read the article behind it for my first academic assignment ever, and I still remember how excited I was. Science does not exist without emotions.
doi.org/10.5194/tc-9...
doi.org/10.5194/tc-9...
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
While finalizing my class project on active remote sensing for glaciers, I ran into this animation again. Ten years ago I read the article behind it for my first academic assignment ever, and I still remember how excited I was. Science does not exist without emotions.
doi.org/10.5194/tc-9...
doi.org/10.5194/tc-9...
Romanticizing overpriced ski towns is my guilty pleasure
📍Telluride, CO
📍Telluride, CO
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Romanticizing overpriced ski towns is my guilty pleasure
📍Telluride, CO
📍Telluride, CO
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A giant low angle glacier detachment (40 M m3) occurred on 1st Nov. 2022 in the remote Kunlun range (Tibet, 90.869° E, 35.969° N) and was discovered only 2 years later! 😲🧊🌊
Before collapsing the glacier reached speeds of up to 46 m/day! ⚡️
Must read! 🔥
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Before collapsing the glacier reached speeds of up to 46 m/day! ⚡️
Must read! 🔥
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
November 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A giant low angle glacier detachment (40 M m3) occurred on 1st Nov. 2022 in the remote Kunlun range (Tibet, 90.869° E, 35.969° N) and was discovered only 2 years later! 😲🧊🌊
Before collapsing the glacier reached speeds of up to 46 m/day! ⚡️
Must read! 🔥
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Before collapsing the glacier reached speeds of up to 46 m/day! ⚡️
Must read! 🔥
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
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A serac broke off high on the steep Ultar Glacier and the avalanche reached the Hunza Valley, covering Karimabad and surroundings with snow and dust! 🧊❄️😱
Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️
🎥 karimiehunzai
Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️
🎥 karimiehunzai
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A serac broke off high on the steep Ultar Glacier and the avalanche reached the Hunza Valley, covering Karimabad and surroundings with snow and dust! 🧊❄️😱
Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️
🎥 karimiehunzai
Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️
🎥 karimiehunzai
Based on climate trends in the Caucasus, Kolka Glacier was not expected to return after the 2002 collapse. But it did! Today it has already regained about 50% of its pre-collapse mass, mostly thanks to constant snow, ice, and rock avalanches filling the basin.
Photos from our 2021 field trip!
Photos from our 2021 field trip!
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Based on climate trends in the Caucasus, Kolka Glacier was not expected to return after the 2002 collapse. But it did! Today it has already regained about 50% of its pre-collapse mass, mostly thanks to constant snow, ice, and rock avalanches filling the basin.
Photos from our 2021 field trip!
Photos from our 2021 field trip!
Reposted by Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova
#Avalanches are of key importance to #glaciers worldwide. An international research team led by Marin Kneib (WSL & ETH Zurich) shows that up to 22% of the snow on glaciers comes from avalanches. WSL-News: www.wsl.ch/en/news/aval... @marinkneib.bsky.social @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
Avalanches are of key importance to glaciers worldwide
An international research team shows that avalanches contribute significantly to the health of many glaciers.
www.wsl.ch
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
#Avalanches are of key importance to #glaciers worldwide. An international research team led by Marin Kneib (WSL & ETH Zurich) shows that up to 22% of the snow on glaciers comes from avalanches. WSL-News: www.wsl.ch/en/news/aval... @marinkneib.bsky.social @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
Avalanches again, but this time in beautiful Kyrgyzstan (2021). The mountains looked surreal in the windows of the Kyrgyz State Historical Museum. I really miss field trips now, even though I didn’t really enjoyed them at the time. Funny how that works.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Avalanches again, but this time in beautiful Kyrgyzstan (2021). The mountains looked surreal in the windows of the Kyrgyz State Historical Museum. I really miss field trips now, even though I didn’t really enjoyed them at the time. Funny how that works.
It is hard to believe, but I miss Russian winter after 3 years in the United States. Russian far North is my favorite place in the country (after Central Caucasus, of course). Here are some photos from Khibiny mountains (Kola peninsula), where we did snow and avalanche assessment in Jan 2018 & 2022
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It is hard to believe, but I miss Russian winter after 3 years in the United States. Russian far North is my favorite place in the country (after Central Caucasus, of course). Here are some photos from Khibiny mountains (Kola peninsula), where we did snow and avalanche assessment in Jan 2018 & 2022
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Zermatters are really working hard to destroy their land! 😭
After Gorner dam, digging Theodule gl. and excessive cable cars, introducing...
A 260 m-high tower! 😲
'to fix the housing shortage caused by tourist pressure' 😂
Wait, have you thought about regulating this unrestrained tourism?! 🤔🤬
1/
After Gorner dam, digging Theodule gl. and excessive cable cars, introducing...
A 260 m-high tower! 😲
'to fix the housing shortage caused by tourist pressure' 😂
Wait, have you thought about regulating this unrestrained tourism?! 🤔🤬
1/
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Zermatters are really working hard to destroy their land! 😭
After Gorner dam, digging Theodule gl. and excessive cable cars, introducing...
A 260 m-high tower! 😲
'to fix the housing shortage caused by tourist pressure' 😂
Wait, have you thought about regulating this unrestrained tourism?! 🤔🤬
1/
After Gorner dam, digging Theodule gl. and excessive cable cars, introducing...
A 260 m-high tower! 😲
'to fix the housing shortage caused by tourist pressure' 😂
Wait, have you thought about regulating this unrestrained tourism?! 🤔🤬
1/
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In this animation, we can see that the glacier detached sometime between September 4 and 21, 2025 (actually Sept 17-21), and a piece traveled ~5km down valley to just below the village of Safedob. And then on Oct 25, the glacier farther upvalley again advanced, pushing the detached piece another km
November 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In this animation, we can see that the glacier detached sometime between September 4 and 21, 2025 (actually Sept 17-21), and a piece traveled ~5km down valley to just below the village of Safedob. And then on Oct 25, the glacier farther upvalley again advanced, pushing the detached piece another km
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It's v hard to tell but it might be Didal Glacier, which is surge-type and actually was surging in the months prior to this video. I don't know if something switched allowing the runaway mode seen in the video. Curious for thoughts of other glaciologists 🧪⚒️❄️ www.planet.com/stories/dida...
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's v hard to tell but it might be Didal Glacier, which is surge-type and actually was surging in the months prior to this video. I don't know if something switched allowing the runaway mode seen in the video. Curious for thoughts of other glaciologists 🧪⚒️❄️ www.planet.com/stories/dida...
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UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
October 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
Reposted by Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova
FACTSHEET about Birch Glacier collapse by glaciologists of ETHZ @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social 🧊❄️
Don't miss that read! 🙏
polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...
📷 Pomona
Don't miss that read! 🙏
polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...
📷 Pomona
May 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
FACTSHEET about Birch Glacier collapse by glaciologists of ETHZ @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social 🧊❄️
Don't miss that read! 🙏
polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...
📷 Pomona
Don't miss that read! 🙏
polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...
📷 Pomona