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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Delighted to talk about my experience as a postdoc at Charles University in Prague, CZ, after having started my career in the UK as a Romanian expat. If you want to hear more about the challenges and joys of working and living on the move, don’t hesitate to give this a listen!

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Durham Glaciology @durhamglaciology.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

CONGRATULATIONS to @geogdurham.bsky.social's own Dave Roberts and Colm O'Cofaigh who have both been awarded the prestigious Polar Medal by the King in the 2026 New Year's Honours List. Such a well-deserved achievement for two excellent colleagues! ❄️🍾🥂 durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/p...

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Polar Medal for two Durham glacial geologists

We are delighted to announce that Professors Colm O’Cofaigh and Dave Roberts have been awarded the prestigious Polar Medal in the King’s New Year Honours list, which recognises outstanding achievem…

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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Throughly enjoyed presenting my PhD numerical ice modelling work in the Southern Carpathians (and upcoming expansion to the Central European uplands during my postdoc) at the Regional Conference on Geomorphology (part of IAG) hosted by the West University of Timișoara, Romania 1/2

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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Delighted to have attended a field meeting in the Retezat, Godeanu and Piule-Iorgovanu mountains (Southern Carpathians, Romania) focused on unique glacial, periglacial, and glaciokarstic geomorphology. I was beyond enthusiastic to (re)visit some sites which I mapped/ modelled during my PhD…1/2

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 11/07/2025

Our @geogdurham.bsky.social researchers, led by @polarguy.bsky.social, have discovered the remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across #EastAntarctica – and they could help predictions of future loss from the ice sheet 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

A snow and ice covered rocky landscape next to the sea.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Extensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution - Nature Geoscience

Extensive flat surfaces observed beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet margin were formed by fluvial erosion and have modulated the ice-sheet response to climate change, according to an analysis of rad...

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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It was my greatest pleasure to graduate with a PhD from @geogdurham.bsky.social earlier this week! Marking a decade since I started out as a curious undergrad there, Durham was not only a place that taught me the intricacies of Geography, but also where I met some of the brightest and kindest... 1/2

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Such a pleasure to welcome our students and their supporters to the Department yesterday on graduation day and to celebrate your achievements. We hope you have some great memories of your time with us and we wish you all every happiness and success as you set off on the next stage of your journeys ❤️

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Many congrats to you Debbie and to all our graduating PhD students this year. We wish every one of you all the very best in the next steps of your journey.

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Durham Glaciology @durhamglaciology.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Congratulations to @cristinabalaban.bsky.social who was back visiting Durham today for graduation! 🎓 Cristina's PhD research reconstructed the past glaciation of the Southern Carpathians, Romania, and she is now continuing her palaeoglaciological work as a postdoc in Prague. Well done Cristina! 👏❄️🍾

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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Just over two weeks ago, I had the pleasure to present my numerial modelling work of past glaciation in the Southern Carpathians, Romania, with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model at #EGU25. 1/7

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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Passionate about glaciers, geomorphology and past climate? Keen to do a PhD in one of the most beautiful historical cities in the heart of Europe? Come and do a fully-funded PhD with us at Charles University in Prague, looking at reconstructing the past glaciation of the Central European uplands 1/7

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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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Holly Wytiahlowsky @hollywytia.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Our new preprint (and the first of my PhD!) is now open for discussion in The Cryosphere ❄️. We produced the first large-scale inventory of supraglacial channels in an alpine environment and provide insight into meltwater pathways and channel distribution. doi.org/10.5194/egus...

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Christopher Darvill @chrisdarvill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Postdoc available: 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁. Work on an NSF-NERC-funded project with brilliant UK, USA and Canada team. A great opportunity to combine modelling and field-based ice sheet reconstructions! Deadline: 𝟮𝟯 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Modelling Quaternary Ice-sheet Evolution

Salary: Grade 7 (£39,105 – £46,485 p.a. depending on experience) This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing...

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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Delighted to announce that earlier this week, I successfully defended my PhD thesis (with minor corrections) on the glaciation of the Southern Carpathians, Romania. Many thanks to my examiners @davidsmall.bsky.social and Stephen Livingstone for a thought-provoking discussion... 1/4

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Great icy job going at Durham University Geography department: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Assistant Professor in Physical Geography (GEOG_03)

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Fine, fine. I made a starter pack for #EarthSurfaceProcesses and #geomorphologhy folks. 🧪⚒️ Am still adding folx but please let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/CQzthwb

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Fiona Clubb @drfionaclubb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We are advertising for a PhD position in landslide-flood interactions in the Himalaya as part of the IAPETUS DTP programme - please get in touch if you are interested in a PhD in cascading hazards, geomorphology, sediment, and machine learning! iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Sediment along the Kali-Gandaki river in the Nepal Himalaya

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Caroline Clason @carolineclason.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

⚒️🧪🚨Job alert🚨 The Department of Geography at Durham University is currently seeking a 36-month Postdoctoral Research Associate focussed on glacimarine sedimentology to work alongside Professor Colm O’Cofaigh. More details about the post here 👉 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

My turn for a starter pack! Here is a collection of Quaternary Scientists (broadly defined) that you might find interesting to follow. Enjoy. And let me know your suggestions please! go.bsky.app/71XJ4jH

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hola - with all the new folx on here, I realized we didn't have a starter pack of glaciologists and people who like glaciers. PLEASE let me know if I've missed someone or an organization! go.bsky.app/HG2KgXZ 🧪⚒️❄️🗻

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Richard Staff @richardstaff.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

So much time and hard work gone into this #tephra -tastic effort led by Becca Kearney analysing sediment cores from Lakes Lia and Brazi, Romania: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Major and trace element analysis imply volcanic sources from Anatolia, Italy and Iceland! 🇹🇷🌋 🇮🇹🌋 🇮🇸🌋 ➡️ 🇷🇴 🌊

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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Delighted to share that my first, first-author paper has just been published in ESPL! We devised the very first glacial landsystem model for temperate-continental mountains, in order to understand past landscape change during the last glaciation...[1/12] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.5723

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Cristina Balaban @cristinabalaban.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.5723

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