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2023

Greenland Science Week 2023

At the beginning of November, we had Greenland Science Week which is a conference held across Greenland every two years to present and disseminate research t...

pypromice available through conda

October has been a chaotic month with many parts of my job converging. Firstly, we reached a big milestone with pypromice, the Python package for all our aut...

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2022

Introducing Schengulator

Schengulator is a tool to calculate how many days an individual has been in Schengen countries out of a specified 180-day period. The Schengen Visa Rule ...

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2021

Making Readthedocs for a Python package

A readthedocs page is handy when you wish to auto-generate online documentation for a package, such as in package releases or submitting code for peer review...

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2020

Six months working in Greenland

Since starting work in Greenland, we have had a handful of interesting projects which started before I arrived . Thankfully these projects have been related ...

Making a PyPI package

Recently, I have had a paper accepted which presents PyTrx, a new Python toolset for use in glacial photogrammetry. Over the course of getting this published...

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2019

Moving to Greenland

It's been a while since I used this platform to post an update. A lot has changed in the past year. For one, I now live in Nuuk, the capital city of Greenlan...

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2018

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2017

Ptarmigans love time-lapse cameras

We have been setting up time-lapse cameras in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard since 2014 to observe glacier change over time. Ptarmigans have been known to nest by t...

What is going on at Tunabreen?

Tunabreen is a tidewater glacier in Svalbard that has recently been displaying some exciting activity. It is known as a surge-type glacier, with discrete per...

PhD new year resolutions 2017

At the beginning of 2016, I set myself five new year resolutions specifically relating to my PhD work. Now it is the end of the year, I thought I would revie...

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2016

PhD Update: October 2016

It is known that supraglacial lakes on the surface of a glacier fill and drain over the course of a summer melt season. Lake observations from time-lapse pho...

Photography and Snowflakes

It is generally believed that no snowflake is the same because of one man and his obsession with looking at snow crystals: Wilson Bentley. Over the course of...

PhD Update: September 2016

I have been in Svalbard (again) for most of September, collecting images from our 14 time-lapse cameras that we have based in Kongsfjorden and Tempelfjorden....

PhD Update: August 2016

The month started with troubleshooting ongoing uncertainties with projection of measurements from the two-dimensional image coordinates to real-world positio...

PhD Update: July 2016

The majority of July has been focused on widening the applications of the Area class in PyTrx, which is being developed to determine real world areal data fr...

PhD update: June 2016

I have spent this month focused on developing PyTrx, our analysis software for oblique time-lapse image sequences. In particular, I have been working on a se...

PhD update: May 2016

May has been a varied month beginning with returning from Svalbard. The fieldwork in Kongsfjorden was very successful, with 12 time-lapse cameras deployed at...

PhD update: April 2016

This month has been a mixed bag, beginning and finishing in Svalbard with brief visits to Edinburgh and Vienna in between. It's been a very intense month of ...

EGU 2016

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly is held every year to bring together geoscientists to present and discuss their work. I went along to h...

Inside our cameras

Sometimes we get requests concerning what equipment we use in our time-lapse camera systems. Our systems are not off-the-shelf products, we buy specific part...

PhD update: March 2016

This month I was meant to go back to Edinburgh... but I didn't! Instead I stayed on to help with some radar surveying fieldwork after the end of the glaciolo...

Svalbard photography (Feb-Mar 2016)

For the past month I have been in Svalbard, demonstrating on the Glaciology course (AG-325/825) at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). The course is ai...

Paulabreen

This month I have been in Svalbard, demonstrating on the Glaciology course (AG-325/825) at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). The course is aimed at M...

PhD update: February 2016

PhD update: this month I have been in Svalbard, demonstrating on the Glaciology course (AG-325/825) at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). The course i...

PhD update: January 2016

PhD update: further work on calving behaviour, what's next for this work, and beginning a month in Svalbard This month I continued with the work concerning ...

Confessions of a glaciology PhD student

Amusing excerpts from the diary of second-year glaciology PhD student I have come to the end of the second year of my PhD this January. It's been a great ye...

PhD new year resolutions

1. Write more This encompasses a whole load of things including writing up findings, reading and summarising articles, blogging more, and generally document...

PhD update: December 2015

Examining calving behaviours at two glaciers in Svalbard Kronebreen and Tunabreen are two tidewater glaciers in Svalbard that exhibit very different calving ...

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2015

PhD update: November 2015

Bed water pressures correspond to surface lake drainage events at Kronebreen November has well and truly been office-based apart from a trip to Aberdeen for...

PhD update: October 2015

Returning from Svalbard and installing time-lapse cameras in Iceland This month has been varied. I started the beginning of October with my last couple of d...

PhD update: September 2015

Retrieving time-lapse cameras from Kronebreen glacier, and teaching at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) Post-doc researcher Sarah Thompson (UNIS) t...

Tunabreen

Tunabreen (August 2015) Tunabreen is an ocean-terminating glacier on the west coast of Svalbard, which is special due to its unique set of dynamics. A high...

Fieldwork & Film

The Fieldwork Last year, we placed seven time-lapse cameras at the margins of Kronebreen from May to September 2014, capturing images every 30 minutes. These...

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