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A small ice avalanche, Morsarjokull, Iceland
🏔️❄️New book chapter on GLACIAL HAZARDS now published in ‘Comprehensive Cryospheric Science and Environmental Change’.
Covers paraglacial landslides, permafrost degradation, ice &snow avalanches, glacier detachments, GLOFs, ice-volcano interactions
Full: lnkd.in/eGtqQf8H
Pre-print: lnkd.in/ek59Swfu
Dan, many thanks for your support!
the last time i remember feeling great in my country was during the football world cup in 2018. i was happy. i did not want to leave. it was my home. but now i am here. because that militarized system, driven by propaganda and fear, no longer feels like my country.
they blocked all the social media. they blocked whats app, youtube, telegram. i can't call my grandmother. my partner has not seen his parents since he left russia, because he cannot safely return. he would be forced into military service, as in russia, all men are required to serve
all real opposition is destroyed. opposition leaders are imprisoned or killed. people report each other, like during stalin’s time. prison sentences have increased dramatically, for things like “fake information about the russian army”, which can mean saying the truth or expressing your opinion.
i know the situation in america is difficult right now, but it is hard to explain how much worse the situation in russia is. you cannot speak freely. you cannot protest. there are no protests anymore. there is silence. and maybe the most painful part is that many people support it.
i still visit home sometimes. i miss my big family very bad.
but it does not feel like home anymore.
but there is also another side. people in russia who are against the war, maybe 5% of the population, they also lost their homes in a different way. they lost connection with their parents. with their relatives. because the people closest to them became strangers.
and somehow they continue to support the situation, or at least accept it, because of the incredibly powerful machine of russian propaganda. it is very difficult to describe how i feel about ukrainian people. i feel deep sorrow. i feel guilt. and i believe there are no words that can express that.
i feel very blessed to be here. because back home, in moscow, where i was born, raised, and lived my whole life, there are still my friends and family. and many of them say that everything is “not very clear”. that it’s “not that obvious”.
today is four-year anniversary since the russian invasion of ukraine started. in these four years, a lot of things have changed. i feel very lucky to write this from the united states. i feel very lucky to know english. i feel very lucky to be in academia for the past three years.
Incinération d’un Lama, Tibet, 1927, crayon sur papier, 23,5 x 32 cm. Coll. J.D.
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🛰️ Rock–ice avalanche 🏔️ spotted on an unnamed glacier in the Himalaya during random Google Earth browsing 🔎🌍
'La Mer de Glace'
Léon Gimpel
1911
Shortly after invention by the Lumière brothers in 1904, Gimpel already mastered the autochrome technique: 'the brightness of the ice made it a photogenic subject par excellence for colour' 📷🌈
This view is remarkable for its precision, quite rare in autochromes.
In recognition of International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb 11), it's a great time to re-share this paper from 2010 - lots of progress and lots more room to grow. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
***Our review paper on glacier surging is out!***
Lovell H, Benn DI, Jiskoot H and 12 others (2026) “Glacier surging and surge-related hazards in a changing climate.”
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 7(2). doi.org/10.1038/s430...
@hazlovell.bsky.social #cryosphere #glaciology #science #glaciers
January 2026 was the 5th warmest on record in the ERA5 dataset, at 1.48C above preindustrial levels, after 2025, 2024, 2020, and 2016.
NASA: Western U.S. snow cover is tracking at record-low levels for January, based on satellite observations dating back to 2001.
science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Landscape image of the Cordillera Apolobamba, Bolivia, 2015
❄️ 💧 New paper out in @igsoc.bsky.social Journal of Glaciology: "Monitoring glacier evolution and assessing glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) susceptibility in the Bolivian Andes"
lnkd.in/e2tWUXeu
#glaciers #climatechange #climate #andes #glofs #Bolivia
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«Then I thought that the glacier would, in turn, be gradually destroyed through ice avalanches. I had not imagined that it could break apart all at once.»
fantastic piece of art posted on @atmosmag.bsky.social
guys please don’t give up on your bluesky account!
costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country
In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
People should really think twice about whose portraits they put on the wall, and ask themselves why they even need some stranger’s face there in the first place. Put your mom’s photo on the wall instead and be good.
Btw it’s kind of insane how good the iPhone camera is 💯
I was sooo lucky to see these cute guys from the plane while returning to the US from Russia.
Of course, almost all the window shades were down and people were staring at their phones 😓
I just want to look at this beauty in real life while I still can.
July 31, 2025
🚨 CLaSH Small Grants Program now open!
We’re funding creative, seed-level projects on land surface hazard cascades, including modeling, AI/ML, and site-based studies at CLaSH Hazard Observatories.
💰 $20–40K | 🗓 Deadline: Feb 4, 2026
🔗 www.geoclash.org/small-grant-...