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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Nice visualisation of glacier recession and proglacial lake development at #Skeiðarárjökull #Iceland www.facebook.com/share/r/1Him...

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Returned to the westernmost part of the 18km wide snout of #Skeiðarárjökull, SE #Iceland. Comparison of photos taken in 1996 & 2026 illustrate 3 decades of drastic (2km) #glacier margin recession & the formation of a large #proglacial lake decoupling the glacier from it's outwash plain or #sandur

Photo showing the westernmost part of the 18km wide snout of #Skeiðarárjökull, SE Iceland which I first visited in August 1996. 2km of glacier margin recession and the formation of a large proglacial lake decoupling the glacier from it's outwash plain or 'sandur'

Returned to the westernmost part of the 18km wide snout of #Skeiðarárjökull, SE Iceland which I first visited in August 1996. Comparison of photos taken in 1996 and 2026 illustrate 3 decades of drastic glacier recession. 2km of glacier margin recession and the formation of a large proglacial lake decoupling the glacier from it's outwash plain or 'sandur'

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

…. and we are off! First leg of journey to Iceland 🇮🇸 North Shields to IJmuiden ⛴️

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

👇 Job opportunity in Geography at Newcastle University @ncl-geography.bsky.social

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Looking forward to the @quaternaryra.bsky.social ADM at the University of Brighton this week. Presenting evidence for readvance and recession of the Tay-Ericht Glacier in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Flood flows on the River Tay at Birnam & Dunkeld 10 yrs ago during Storm Desmond. Not the largest flood on the Tay however properties were flooded. Peak discharge downstream at Ballathie exceeded 1800 cumecs (Marsh et al., 2016) lnkd.in/epNTVvcU A couple of videos: flic.kr/p/Bsz417 flic.kr/p/AXbHLY

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CatchmentSci @catchmentsci.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I’m delighted to share that our latest research has just been published in HESS. We developed an unsupervised workflow to estimate river surface velocities from videos. Testing on 11,000+ videos against 274 gauging measurements showed excellent agreement. hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

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Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities

Abstract. Accurate, long-term measurements of river flow are imperative for understanding and predicting a broad range of fluvial processes. Modern technological advances are enabling the development ...

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

That’s a wrap after 21 great years at Newcastle University! Although retired from full-time work I'll not be retiring from academia and am looking forward to working on a number of collaborative research projects.

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

We invite abstracts (deadline 13 June - tomorrow!) to our session 'Distributary landforms: past, present and future' at the IAG International Congress on Geomorphology Christchurch New Zealand, Feb 2026. www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/call... Anya Leenman, Sam Woor, Andy Russell & Anastasia Piliouras

Large distributary channel system on the distal portion of the 100km2 Skeiðarársandur, Iceland.

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

To celebrate this first ever World Day of the Glacier, and to highlight the role of climate change in shrinking the glaciers of the Andes, we are delighted to produce a first Deplete and Retreat Policy Brief on the future of the Andean water towers. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/03/poli...

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Policy brief: The future of the Andes Water Towers - AntarcticGlaciers.org

The Deplete and Retreat team are delighted to be attending the first ever celebration for International Day of the Glacier in Paris, at the UNESCO HQ, in March 2025. We will be hosting a side event, e...

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I’ve witnessed significant #glacier recession in SE #Iceland over the past four decades accompanied by major changes in ice marginal processes and landscape. #WorldGlacierDay #InternationalYearofGlacierPreservation #Svínafellsjökull #Skeiðarárjökull

Oblique photos of the snout of Svinafellsjokull taken in 2004 and 2024.

Oblique aerial photo of Skeidararjokull taken in May 2024 showing evidence of glacier margin recession, lowering and proglacial lake
formation. The glacier was in contact with land surfaces on the left of the photo in 1996.

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Ingrid A. Medby @ingridagnete.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today is the day, my book "Arctic State Identity: Geography, History, and Geopolitical Relations" is *officially* published! 🙀🙌 Available from @manchesterup.bsky.social: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526153906/ #Arctic #Geopolitics #ArcticIdentity

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Manchester University Press - Arctic state identity

Arctic state identity - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Arctic state identity by Dr Ingrid A. Medby

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#Jökulhlaup en route through #Skeiðarárjökull from #Grímsvötn subglacial lake. en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne... Some photos of the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets on the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022.

Photo of the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022 showing the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets (Photo: Andy Russell)

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Iceland Meteorological Office have provided a comprehensive summary of the ongoing seismic activity at #Bardarbunga as well as a range of possible scenarios for one of Iceland's biggest subglacial volcanoes. en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

View of the northern flank of Bárðarbunga from Gæsavatn, July 2018 (Photo: Andy Russell)

View of jökulhlaup channels and deposits on the northern flank of Bárðarbunga, July 2018 (Photo: Andy Russell)

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CatchmentSci @catchmentsci.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Our latest paper on implementing image-based flow gauging techniques in an automated environment is now open for public discussion. We’d love to hear feedback from the hydrological community hess.copernicus.org/preprints/he...

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Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities

Abstract. Accurate, long-term, measurements of river flow are imperative for understanding and predicting a broad range of fluvial processes. Modern technological advances are enabling the development...

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Great start to the #QRA2025 conference at @newcastleuni.bsky.social with a great line up today covering marine sediments and landforms, terrestrial landforms and archives of change, and keynote lecture by Dr Celia Martin-Puertas. I'll do my best to live skeet the day! Please RT

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CatchmentSci @catchmentsci.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It’s been great to spend a bit of time in the field recently. Here we are working with the National Trust to assess the effectiveness of a single intervention to enhance flows across a floodplain

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

On this day in 2015 I took an overflight of some of the geomorphological impacts of #StormDesmond on the River Derwent, Cumbria, UK #FieldphotoFriday

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

Programme book and full conference schedule now available for the @quaternaryra.bsky.social ADM in Newcastle in January. Final chance to register this week! sites.google.com/view/qraadm2...

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QRA ADM 2025 - Programme book

Download a PDF version of the full programme book by clicking here.

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

#FieldPhotoFriday Flashback to our final year undergraduate Applied Fluvial Geomorphology field trip in October characterising the impacts of #StormAshley on the wandering gravel bed #RiverCoquet #Northumberland.

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Celebrating Student Research Scholarships and Expeditions 2024 - Great evening hearing about the findings of this years Newcastle University Physical Geography Expeditions to Greenland and Bhutan.

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

For my inaugural post on Bluesky I thought I'd dig out some photos of ice-dammed lake drainage and jökulhlaup impacts from my PhD work at the Russell Glacier, west Greenland way back in 1987!

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