Dr Alastair Curry

@hertsgep delivering the FIRST #drone-piloting (UAV) course for our #Geography and #Environment students at our environmental field station. Herts is one of a handful of UK universities offering hands-on #drone flight experience to students. #GoHerts #ChooseGeography @rgs_ibg @theies_uk

After Easter we took our 2nd year #geography and #environment BSc students to Wester Ross for the @hertsgep #Quaternary field-course. An amazing week of Scottish sunshine, stunning scenery and fabulous fieldwork, with students gaining lots of key field skills. #iceage @uniofherts

Glorious day for surveying, sediments and geotechnical analysis of the landslides at Warden Point, Kent with 2nd year geomorphology class @hertsgep @uniofherts #fieldworkfriday #landslide #geography #university

Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 - Nature An intercomparison exercise reassesses mass loss from glaciers worldwide based on the main in situ and satellite methods from 2000 to 2023; the results are consistent with previous assessments and pro...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please add me Bethan, thanks

Very exciting to grow lenses of segregation #ice and observe frost heave in our final year #periglacial lab today @hertsgep @uniofherts.bsky.social

3 weeks to go til our @hertsgep final year #Glacial and #Periglacial #fieldtrip to #Snowdonia @UniofHerts @uniofhertslms @RGS_IBG #fieldwork #ChooseGeography

Two future possibilities of the future warming stripes - rapid action or delayed action.

What will the future of the warming stripes be?

2024 could be the start of a stabilisation of global temperatures, or it might appear to be a cool year.

Which one of these stories becomes reality depends on our choices today, and every day until then.

We are likely to regret not acting sooner.

Graph showing annual global mean temperatures from 1850 to 2024 as differences from the 1850-1900 average. Data are from six data sets: HadCRUT5, Berkeley Earth, GISTEMP, NOAAGlobalTemp, ERA5 and JRA-3Q. 2024 is clearly the warmest year at around 1.55 degrees C above the 1850-1900 average.

So, we have the global temperatures for the whole of 2024.

It was the warmest year on record (1850-2024) across six widely used datasets: HadCRUT5, Berkeley Earth, GISTEMP, NOAAGlobalTemp, ERA5 and JRA-3Q.

Photo showing a braided river with mountains in the background

📸BSG ART COMPETITION 2024🎨
🚨FIVE days🚨

Scroll through your field photos or get out your paint brush #geomorphology

Prizes:
£100 🥇
£50 🥈🥉
Deadline: 10th Jan
T&Cs: geomorphology.org.uk/2024/11/26/n...
Make sure you tag us, #BSGAC24 and add a caption!

Nice raised beach deposits (~+4 m OD) of possible MIS7 or 5e age, with #periglacial head and windblown sands at #Godrevy #Quaternary #Kernow

There’s a nice sand-blow story for someone to reconstruct down here if not done already. Medieval field systems upslope …

Last bit of #fieldwork for the year - some nice #moraine work in the Shap Fells, Cumbria. Time to warm up and dry out @hertsgep

Geoffrey and Jemima were really loving the excellent London #Quaternary Lectures up until the bit about Pleistocene #megafauna extinctions @rhulgeography.bsky.social

Poster, LQL logo. The London Quaternary Lectures. Wednesday 27th November 2024. 16:00 Professor Joy Singarayer, University of Reading. Lecture title: “Agents of Change: Exploring how humans shaped and were shaped by Late Quaternary climate” [LQL No.111]. Refreshments from 17:00 - 17:30. 17:30 Professor Sarah Woodroffe, Durham University. Lecture title: "Relative sea-level changes and the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet" [LQL No.112] Wine reception from 18:30. Shilling Lecture Theatre, Shilling Building, Royal Holloway, University of London. Centre of Quaternary Research Logo, Royal Holloway, University of London Logo, In person, All welcome, #CQRLQL

This years London Quaternary Lectures are on Wednesday 27th November from 4pm in the Shilling Lecture Theatre.
In person, all welcome - hope to see you there !
#CQRLQL #Quaternary #QuaternaryScience #royalhollowayuniversityoflondon #RoyalHollowayUniversity #lectureseries

Fantastic, Jana, very very well done!!

My first post on this platform so thought I’d share some treasures from a recent trip to the Early-Mid Pleistocene ‘Contorted Drift’ in N Norfolk: chalk rafts, glacitectonite and thrusts galore!