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glaciology

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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....

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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...

A PhD student’s views on the EU referendum

Last week the UK decided to leave the EU. Like many others (16,141,241 people to be exact), I voted to remain in the EU. One of the main reasons I personally...

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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season 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...

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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 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 ...

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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research

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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...

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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...

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...

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...

A PhD student’s views on the EU referendum

Last week the UK decided to leave the EU. Like many others (16,141,241 people to be exact), I voted to remain in the EU. One of the main reasons I personally...

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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season 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...

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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: 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 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 ...

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...

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time-lapse

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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...

How time-lapse photography works in the study of glacial processes

Whilst preparing a talk for the Geography research seminar series at the University of Manchester, I decided to include some information on time-lapse method...

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...

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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season 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 ...

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...

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...

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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...

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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Svalbard

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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...

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...

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....

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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...

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season 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 ...

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 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 ...

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: 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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kronebreen

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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...

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...

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....

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season 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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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: 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...

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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cameras

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season 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 ...

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...

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Back to Top ↑

PhD

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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...

How time-lapse photography works in the study of glacial processes

Whilst preparing a talk for the Geography research seminar series at the University of Manchester, I decided to include some information on time-lapse method...

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...

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...

A PhD student’s views on the EU referendum

Last week the UK decided to leave the EU. Like many others (16,141,241 people to be exact), I voted to remain in the EU. One of the main reasons I personally...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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fieldwork

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: 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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season 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 ...

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...

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...

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 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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calving

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season at...

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...

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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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tunabreen

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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: 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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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photography

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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...

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...

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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python

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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...

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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...

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PhD update

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

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: December 2015

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

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...

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supraglacial lake drainage

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 ...

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...

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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season at...

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...

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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PyTrx

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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...

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photogrammetry

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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...

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...

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...

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academia

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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...

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...

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...

A PhD student’s views on the EU referendum

Last week the UK decided to leave the EU. Like many others (16,141,241 people to be exact), I voted to remain in the EU. One of the main reasons I personally...

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Kongsfjorden

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

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...

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....

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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Greenland

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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 ...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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hydrology

Investigating Greenland’s ice marginal lakes under a changing climate (GrIML)

I have recently started a new 2-year project on ice-marginal lakes in Greenland, as a follow on to previous work where we derived an ice-marginal lake invent...

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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greenland

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...

NUK station fieldwork, software paper accepted and restarting dormant projects

Let's try and document my work again, now with a fresh start back to work after some leave. The month started straight into fieldwork, with scheduled weather...

GC-Net and PROMICE weather station 2022 fieldtrip to NE Greenland

In May 2022, a team went to NE Greenland to install new automatic weather stations (AWS) and perform AWS maintanence at four existing sites. Two of these are...

Investigating Greenland’s ice marginal lakes under a changing climate (GrIML)

I have recently started a new 2-year project on ice-marginal lakes in Greenland, as a follow on to previous work where we derived an ice-marginal lake invent...

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film

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

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...

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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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UNIS

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season at...

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...

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...

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glacier

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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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velocity

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...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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Programming

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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github

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 ...

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...

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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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paulabreen

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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...

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literature

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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Canon

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

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...

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...

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egu

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...

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...

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kongsvegen

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...

Why study Kronebreen and other small glaciers?

There are two motivations behind writing this blog post. One is to document the deployment of our time-lapse cameras for a third consecutive summer season 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 ...

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subglacial

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

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meltwater plume

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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asiaq

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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 ...

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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open-source

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 ...

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...

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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readthedocs

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 ...

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...

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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ESA

Investigating Greenland’s ice marginal lakes under a changing climate (GrIML)

I have recently started a new 2-year project on ice-marginal lakes in Greenland, as a follow on to previous work where we derived an ice-marginal lake invent...

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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 ...

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promice

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...

NUK station fieldwork, software paper accepted and restarting dormant projects

Let's try and document my work again, now with a fresh start back to work after some leave. The month started straight into fieldwork, with scheduled weather...

GC-Net and PROMICE weather station 2022 fieldtrip to NE Greenland

In May 2022, a team went to NE Greenland to install new automatic weather stations (AWS) and perform AWS maintanence at four existing sites. Two of these are...

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teaching

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: 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...

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surge

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...

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...

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radar

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: 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...

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vienna

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...

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...

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kongsbreen

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: 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 ...

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Norsk Polarinstitutt

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...

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...

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submarine plume

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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...

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plume

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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...

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Book review

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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lidar

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...

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glacier retreat

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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ice

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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Charlie English

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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...

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The Snow Tourist

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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...

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Wilson Bentley

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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...

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lakes

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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...

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Ny Alesund

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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...

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The Cryosphere

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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Annals of Glaciology

Calving dynamics at Tunabreen, Svalbard, published in Annals of Glaciology

Annals of Glaciology has recently published our work examining calving dynamics at a tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see article). In the study,...

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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PyPI

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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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ArcticDEM

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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 ...

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ice-marginal lakes

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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 ...

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remote sensing

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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 ...

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Sentinel

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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 ...

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GLOF

Investigating Greenland’s ice marginal lakes under a changing climate (GrIML)

I have recently started a new 2-year project on ice-marginal lakes in Greenland, as a follow on to previous work where we derived an ice-marginal lake invent...

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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programming

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 ...

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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auto-documentation

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 ...

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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gc-net

NUK station fieldwork, software paper accepted and restarting dormant projects

Let's try and document my work again, now with a fresh start back to work after some leave. The month started straight into fieldwork, with scheduled weather...

GC-Net and PROMICE weather station 2022 fieldtrip to NE Greenland

In May 2022, a team went to NE Greenland to install new automatic weather stations (AWS) and perform AWS maintanence at four existing sites. Two of these are...

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aws

NUK station fieldwork, software paper accepted and restarting dormant projects

Let's try and document my work again, now with a fresh start back to work after some leave. The month started straight into fieldwork, with scheduled weather...

GC-Net and PROMICE weather station 2022 fieldtrip to NE Greenland

In May 2022, a team went to NE Greenland to install new automatic weather stations (AWS) and perform AWS maintanence at four existing sites. Two of these are...

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iceland

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...

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Katla

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...

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volcanology

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...

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longyearbreen

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...

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longyearbyen

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...

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polar bear

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...

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tellbreen

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...

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AG-325

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...

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AG-825

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...

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mohnbukta

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...

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helheim

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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jakobshavn

Key time-lapse studies into glacier dynamics

Two of our stereo time-lapse cameras (cameras 8a and 8b) at Kronebreen glacier (Svalbard), which were installed as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impa...

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GPR

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...

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Harbortronics

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...

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Peli case

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...

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timer

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...

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borehole analysis

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...

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conferences

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...

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UAV

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...

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kongsfjorden

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 ...

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tromsø

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...

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Brexit

A PhD student’s views on the EU referendum

Last week the UK decided to leave the EU. Like many others (16,141,241 people to be exact), I voted to remain in the EU. One of the main reasons I personally...

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EU

A PhD student’s views on the EU referendum

Last week the UK decided to leave the EU. Like many others (16,141,241 people to be exact), I voted to remain in the EU. One of the main reasons I personally...

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referendum

A PhD student’s views on the EU referendum

Last week the UK decided to leave the EU. Like many others (16,141,241 people to be exact), I voted to remain in the EU. One of the main reasons I personally...

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submarine melt

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...

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Andrée

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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Bea Uusma

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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expedition

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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Frænkel

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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hot air balloon

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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North Pole

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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polar

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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The Expedition

The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma - Book Review

Normally the last thing I want to do after a hard day’s work focused on a polar subject is… read yet more polar-related stuff. There are multiple books gathe...

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CalvingSEIS

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...

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Sony NEX-5R

A detailed look at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

Thanks to some nice boat trips this September (and a good zoom lens on my camera*), we were able to take a detailed look at the calving front of Kronebreen, ...

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phd

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....

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snow crystals

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...

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snowflakes

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...

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Vermont

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...

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IGS

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...

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International Glaciological Society

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...

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Landsat

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...

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art

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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Frankenstein

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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Mary Shelley

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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Monet

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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Nordenskiöld

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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ski

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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skiing

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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snow

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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Yuki-onna

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English (Book Review)

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a popular science book about snow, especially when its tagline is 'A search for the world's purest, deepest sno...

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Film

How time-lapse photography works in the study of glacial processes

Whilst preparing a talk for the Geography research seminar series at the University of Manchester, I decided to include some information on time-lapse method...

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anxiety

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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stress

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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KNS

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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meltwater

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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TerraSAR-X

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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tidewater

Using meltwater plumes to infer subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers

PhD update: January 2017. Meltwater plumes are the upwelling of fresh water in front of a tidewater glacier. These are known to influence submarine melt rate...

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arctic

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...

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bird activity

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...

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birds

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...

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ptarmigan

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...

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wildlife

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...

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hydraulic potential

Subglacial hydrology at Kronebreen, Svalbard, published in The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere recently published our work on Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (click here to see the article). The study examines su...

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ice-ocean interactions

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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University of Edinburgh

A dummies guide to… my PhD thesis on glacier dynamics

Recently my PhD thesis was made available online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, titled 'Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-l...

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kalaallit

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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lifeinnuuk

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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nuuk

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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remotesensing

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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update

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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Anaconda

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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conda

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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pip

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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TestPyPI

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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camera

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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Frontiers

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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ice velocity

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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pip install

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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publication

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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terminus position

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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tidewater glacier

PyTrx published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Frontiers in Earth Science recently published our work on PyTrx, the Python toolset developed during my PhD for processing oblique time-lapse imagery of glac...

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satellite

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 ...

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supraglacial lake

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 ...

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Asiaq Greenland Survey

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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CCI

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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Greenland Ice Sheet

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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Inderhytten

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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Kangaarssuup Tasersua

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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sea level

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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SnapPlanet

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes published in Scientific Reports

This month we published findings from our work on Greenland's ice marginal lakes. This work are part of the ESA Glaciers CCI (Climate Change Initiative), fo...

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sphinx

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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pypi

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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schengen

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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travel

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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europe

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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ice marginal lakes

Investigating Greenland’s ice marginal lakes under a changing climate (GrIML)

I have recently started a new 2-year project on ice-marginal lakes in Greenland, as a follow on to previous work where we derived an ice-marginal lake invent...

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glacier dynamics

Investigating Greenland’s ice marginal lakes under a changing climate (GrIML)

I have recently started a new 2-year project on ice-marginal lakes in Greenland, as a follow on to previous work where we derived an ice-marginal lake invent...

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pypromice

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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