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Prof Andrew Mackintosh

@andrewmackintosh.bsky.social
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Professor, glaciers & climate, Head 🌏 Earth Atmosphere Environment @MonashEAE ❄️ Lead Author @ipcc_ch @MonashIce www.icesheet.org @saef_arc Views are mine. 🚲 ☕️ 🏔 📷

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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Iconic St Kilda Pier in Melbourne, Australia
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Emma Cooper @emlcpeer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Super excited to see our new paper published today, led by @shahidyounis.bsky.social as part of his MSc work. We present the glacial and periglacial geomorphology of the Drang Drung, Haskira, and Pensilungpa glaciers in the Indian Himalayas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Glacial and periglacial geomorphology of the Drang Drung, Haskira, and Pensilungpa glaciers, Trans-Himalayan Ladakh, India
Glacial geomorphological mapping is vital for understanding the role of glaciers in shaping landscapes, as well as glacier response to climate change. We present a glacial geomorphological map of t...
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Levan Tielidze @levantielidze.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
❄️ A landmark new study has revealed that glaciers on Australia’s remote sub-Antarctic Heard Island are shrinking at an accelerating rate due to rising temperatures and climate change. tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @heardislandgov.bsky.social @arcsaef.bsky.social
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Australia's only glaciers are shrinking fast. Important work led by @levantielidze.bsky.social @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @arcsaef.bsky.social paper here: tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... news here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Melting glaciers on remote Australian island spark concern
Glaciers on the remote Australian territory of Heard Island have lost almost a quarter of their size over the past seven decades amid rising temperatures in the sub-Antarctic region, new research show...
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
These two positions are closing in 5 days!
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🌏 Rare opportunity to join us! We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university 🔬 Isotope Geochemistry 🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Wilson’s Promontory or Yiruk Wamoon, 3 hours drive from Melbourne, Australia, is National Park with magnificent peaks, beaches, rainforest, and the world’s southernmost mangroves. A hiking and boating paradise, the promontory and surrounding islands are the exposed portions of a Devonian granite batholith.
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Jess Macha @jessmacha.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New Paper out today! How do extreme ENSO events impact Antarctic snow accumulation❄️🧊🌨️? with @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @fsmccormack.bsky.social @benhenley.bsky.social @helenmcgregor @ariaan.bsky.social @arcsaef.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... 1/5 🧵
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How do extreme ENSO events affect Antarctic surface mass balance?
Abstract. Extreme El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events have far-reaching impacts globally, yet their impacts on Antarctica are poorly understood. In particular, how extreme ENSO events influence...
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Air bubbles trapped in glacier ice recently calved off Brewster Glacier in Aotearoa / New Zealand. We don’t know the age of this ice but I estimate a few centuries - suggesting the bubbles would record pre-industrial CO2 levels.
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Peak Melbourne #ridetowork
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Happy to live in a liberal democracy where voting has a calm, polite and almost festive vibe, and people respect one another and the system.
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Today we were privileged to be visited by Kirrae Wurrung/ Bundjalung Elder Uncle Lionel Lauch, who carried out an Acknowledgment of Country and Smoking Ceremony in the @monashuniversity.bsky.social Earth Science Garden. We are grateful for his generosity to share knowledge so central to our School.
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A reminder about this rare opportunity- closing 2nd May!
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Levan Tielidze @levantielidze.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
❄️I am pleased to announce that our new study titled "Post-Little Ice Age Equilibrium-Line Altitude and Temperature Changes in the Greater Caucasus Based on Small Glaciers" has been published in Remote Sensing www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17... @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Australia is looking for someone to lead the Antarctic Division's Antarctic Climate program. Australian residents only, sorry. Closes May 12 dcceewjobs.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...
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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environm - Program Leader - Antarctic Climate
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Lyrebirds and kookaburras in Nanadhong (Cathedral Ranges), two hours from Melbourne, Australia
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
On holiday, and also on an international science planning Zoom call. I can’t fault the setting…
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Emma Cooper @emlcpeer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We (@andrewmackintosh.bsky.social, Rachael Lappan and I) were lucky to spend part of this week at Brewster Glacier, New Zealand. This trip was spent sampling recently exposed bedrock from surrounding & within a few hundred metres of the modern glacier. 1/2
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A chance to join our amazing School of 🌍 💨 🔥 @monashuniversity.bsky.social as a continuing Lecturer or Senior Lecturer Atmospheric dynamics, modelling, physical meteorology… Reduced teaching load due to @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social Pls repost careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
On the edge of #Antarctica, 60 scientists aboard RSV Nuyina are researching the impact of climate change on the fastest-melting glacier in the eastern part of the icy continent — ABC News with @utas.edu.au, @arcsaef.bsky.social, AAD and @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social ▶️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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Scientists collect unique sea creatures during voyage to East Antarctica
From giant sea spiders to "sea pigs" and "sea butterflies" — analysing the rich biodiversity in Antarctica has thrilled researchers studying the impacts of climate change.
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📢 New paper alert 📢 Amazing interdisciplinary effort by Emma bringing together Antarctic ice sheet and biological evidence. But what does it tell us? 👇
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Three staff members in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment @monashuniversity.bsky.social were promoted to Senior Lecturer this week. All inspiring scientists and educators. Let’s walk through them one by one. 🥳🥳🥳
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Autumn coloured dog 🐕 🍁
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Autumn in Melbourne, Australia
The beginning of the leaf fall season in a part of Melbourne, Australia that is dominated by European trees.
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Ian Dale Kelly @iantarctic.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
First post on BlueSky to mark the end of my Antarctic fieldwork in Queen Maud Land working with @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social and some other wonderful scientists at @arcsaef.bsky.social. Overall, trip was hugely successful, with some exciting science to come. 1/4
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International Association of Cryospheric Sciences @iacscryo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Welcome to the new Bluesky channel of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences!
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Advice for the Marty McFlys out there… @jacquessch.bsky.social
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Andy Tomkins (spacerockdoc.bsky.social) and I in Antarctica! Who is running the School??
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Saying goodbye to Antarctica after a scientifically successful trip. Many thanks to Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future and White Desert for their exceptional support. @whitedeserttours.bsky.social arcsaef.com
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Season’s Greetings from Santa’s sleigh 🎥 by Levan Tielidze
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Congratulations to the amazing Dr Lauren Vargo for winning the @igsoc.bsky.social Early Career Scientist Award. Click here for further details bit.ly/49MORLq
Lauren, GPS set up, is ready to fly over the glaciers of Aotearoa / New Zealand
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
We made it 😃
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
South!
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Corey Port @coreyport.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
From boulder to Beryllium. The journey of a glacially deposited #Antarctic rock destined for cosmogenic dating 🧊🪨✨. A whole lot of time in the lab, and no small amount of geochemical wizardry 🧙‍♂️. The past life of a glacier waiting to be uncovered.
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Flowers of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Ready to depart for Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, where we will join a team of #SAEF Biologists. @monashuniversity.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The gear required to support one Antarctic glaciologiy trip… #SAEF @monashuniversity.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Stationary cloud over Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. Getting ready to deploy to Antarctica with the amazing SAEF programme & White Desert arcsaef.com white-desert.com
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Come and work with us in Australia! 😱🕷️
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Sharon Robinson @antarcticmoss.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
@katehelmstedt.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-are-boys...
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Why are boys outperforming girls in maths?
Australia’s results from the latest ‘TIMSS’ test show a concerning gender gap in maths for Year 4 and Year 8 students.
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We host an annual awards night in the School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment to celebrate the achievements of our students and early career researchers. It’s genuinely my favourite event of the year @monashuniversity.bsky.social Thanks @melaniefinch.bsky.social our guest speaker this year!
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Red River Gum) in our neighbourhood Lost a branch in a recent storm Love the vibrant red colours and rings in this centuries-old wood
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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Happy #AntarcticaDay: December 1st is the anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. The Environmental Protocol, in Article 2, designates Antarctica as ” a natural reserve, devoted to #peace and #science.” Let’s keep it that way!
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Celebrating Antarctica Day by …packing for Antarctica. Thanks to the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative ‘Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future’ for this opportunity. arcsaef.com
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
End of an era today with the retirement of Professor Michael Reeder. What a contribution he has made to @monashuniversity.bsky.social and the wider community! 📸 with his long-term collaborator and friend, Professor Christian Jakob.
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We started glaciology @monashuniversity.bsky.social in 2020 - myself, @fsmccormack.bsky.social & @rsjones.bsky.social Look at us now! 📸 from our meeting today, with visiting speakers Tyler Pelle & Fakhra Muneeb. Also 🧁 saying goodbye to Indigo McKinnon & offering best wishes to Johanna Beckmann
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I’m lucky to part of this group, with a project funded for cross-disciplinary (glacier-biodiversity) work with Steven Chown, @justineshaw.bsky.social Regine Hock and @iceybethan.bsky.social My thoughts are also with those who were unsuccessful. www.monash.edu/science/news...
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Monash Science researchers awarded over $12 Million in ARC Discovery Projects Funding
Monash University Science researchers have been awarded an impressive $12,024,280 in Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects (DPs) funding for 2025.
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Chris Greening @greening.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
You hear about our successes a lot on here, but I don't talk enough about the rejections. As of today, 10 out of the 12 grants members of our lab put in this year didn't get up. Most grants were led by early-career researchers in/with our team as a way for them to lead independent programs. 1/3
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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🌊🇦🇶Richard Jones talking about the contribution of Antarctic ice sheet to sea level rise. Poorly known - IPCC. Historical satellite data show it is mostly west Antarctica. need longer and more regional records. Can we use spatial and temporal global sea level changes to model the contribution?
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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🌊🇦🇶Jacinda O’Connor exploring sea level change in coastal sediment records around Shackleton Ice Shelf and Denman, east Antarctica.
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