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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova

@glacierhazard.bsky.social
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PhD student at the University of Utah | Mountain glaciers & glacier hazards Mountain photography ~ Mental health in academia ~ International student support

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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While people in Moscow are embracing a city that is becoming increasingly digital, connected, and convenient, The New York Times has published a compelling story about what is happening behind this transformation. Worth reading: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/w...
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The New Moscow: A Digital Utopia Doubling as a Surveillance Trap
Cutting-edge technologies have reshaped the Russian capital, making it safer, more convenient — and more closely watched.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Given their recent frequency — Kolka 2002, Seti River 2012, Aru Co 2016, Chamoli 2021, Nuwakot district, Nepal today — maybe it's time to re-assess the risk of glacial collapse vs. glacial lake outburst floods? cc @watershedlab.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social @kristencook.bsky.social
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
HISTORIC 53C DAY- 38C at NIGHT 52.7C Omidieh IRAN All time record and 2026 World Record MINIMUMS ! 38.3 Delhoran IRAN 33.1 Uchkuduk UZBEKISTAN Next days WORSE 53/54c Middle East 49/50C former USSR 50/52C CHINA NIGHTS up to 40C MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🚨New paper about the second largest tsunami ever recorded, just published in @science.org A short 🧪⚒️🌊 thread #EGU26 @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjord
Early in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run...
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CSDMS @csdms.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Summer field school in natural hazards - 2026 CLaSH Graduate Summer Field School is now accepting applications! July 27 - Aug 1, 2026, Colorado State University Mountain Campus, CO. Details: sites.google.com/umich.edu/20...
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Mauri Pelto @mauri-pelto.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Published yesterday in Nature Reviews "Global glacier mass change in 2025" put in perspective of the 50 year record . www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Global glacier mass change in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Glaciers lost 408 ± 132 Gt of mass during the hydrological year 2025, equivalent to 1.1 ± 0.4 mm sea-level rise. Since 1975, glacier mass loss has totalled 9,583 ± 1,211 Gt, equivalent to 26.4 ± 3.3 m...
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In academia, we're good at talking about successes, but sweep unfunded grants & unsuccessful job apps under the rug. It can be a tough road, filled w/ failure* For anyone discouraged about the process, here's my failure CV #AcademicSky 🧪 *None are really failures if you learn from them
A CV of grants that were not funded and jobs applied for but not offeredA CV of grants that were not funded and jobs applied for but not offeredA CV of grants that were not funded and jobs applied for but not offeredA CV of grants that were not funded and jobs applied for but not offered
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Amazing work, feel inspired to do similar things on the Kolka Glacier!
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
On 14th March, an impressive rock avalanche occurred on Cotopaxi (5,897 m asl, EC)! 🔥 A rock mass detached from the Yanasacha summit cliff and then triggered an ice avalanche onto the glacier! 🌊🧊 The deposit spans ~1000 vertical distance between 5,700 and 4,700 m asl! 😲 📷 Pablo Chiquiza
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🏔️❄️New book chapter on GLACIAL HAZARDS now published in ‘Comprehensive Cryospheric Science and Environmental Change’. Covers paraglacial landslides, permafrost degradation, ice &snow avalanches, glacier detachments, GLOFs, ice-volcano interactions Full: lnkd.in/eGtqQf8H Pre-print: lnkd.in/ek59Swfu
A small ice avalanche, Morsarjokull, Iceland
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
today is four-year anniversary since the russian invasion of ukraine started. in these four years, a lot of things have changed. i feel very lucky to write this from the united states. i feel very lucky to know english. i feel very lucky to be in academia for the past three years.
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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Incinération d’un Lama, Tibet, 1927, crayon sur papier, 23,5 x 32 cm. Coll. J.D. far-orientalism.com/collection/l...
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Irfan Rashid @irfansalroo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🛰️ Rock–ice avalanche 🏔️ spotted on an unnamed glacier in the Himalaya during random Google Earth browsing 🔎🌍
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
'La Mer de Glace' Léon Gimpel 1911 Shortly after invention by the Lumière brothers in 1904, Gimpel already mastered the autochrome technique: 'the brightness of the ice made it a photogenic subject par excellence for colour' 📷🌈 This view is remarkable for its precision, quite rare in autochromes.
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International Glaciological Society @igsoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In recognition of International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb 11), it's a great time to re-share this paper from 2010 - lots of progress and lots more room to grow. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Women in glaciology, a historical perspective | Journal of Glaciology | Cambridge Core
Women in glaciology, a historical perspective - Volume 56 Issue 200
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Hester Jiskoot @glasheologist.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
***Our review paper on glacier surging is out!*** Lovell H, Benn DI, Jiskoot H and 12 others (2026) “Glacier surging and surge-related hazards in a changing climate.” Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 7(2). doi.org/10.1038/s430... @hazlovell.bsky.social #cryosphere #glaciology #science #glaciers
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Glacier surging and surge-related hazards in a changing climate - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Glacier surges are rapid ice flow acceleration and mass transport events, which can threaten nearby communities, infrastructure and habitats. This Review discusses the global distribution, behaviour a...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/02/2026
January 2026 was the 5th warmest on record in the ERA5 dataset, at 1.48C above preindustrial levels, after 2025, 2024, 2020, and 2016.
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Mitch Tobin @mitchtobin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
NASA: Western U.S. snow cover is tracking at record-low levels for January, based on satellite observations dating back to 2001. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
❄️ 💧 New paper out in @igsoc.bsky.social Journal of Glaciology: "Monitoring glacier evolution and assessing glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) susceptibility in the Bolivian Andes" lnkd.in/e2tWUXeu #glaciers #climatechange #climate #andes #glofs #Bolivia (1/2)
Landscape image of the Cordillera Apolobamba, Bolivia, 2015
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
«Then I thought that the glacier would, in turn, be gradually destroyed through ice avalanches. I had not imagined that it could break apart all at once.»
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
fantastic piece of art posted on @atmosmag.bsky.social guys please don’t give up on your bluesky account!
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Chris @topquark59.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/01/2026
costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 13/01/2026
In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
People should really think twice about whose portraits they put on the wall, and ask themselves why they even need some stranger’s face there in the first place. Put your mom’s photo on the wall instead and be good.
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I was sooo lucky to see these cute guys from the plane while returning to the US from Russia. Of course, almost all the window shades were down and people were staring at their phones 😓 I just want to look at this beauty in real life while I still can. July 31, 2025
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CLaSH-an NSF Center for Land Surface Hazards @clashgeohazards.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨 CLaSH Small Grants Program now open! We’re funding creative, seed-level projects on land surface hazard cascades, including modeling, AI/ML, and site-based studies at CLaSH Hazard Observatories. 💰 $20–40K | 🗓 Deadline: Feb 4, 2026 🔗 www.geoclash.org/small-grant-...
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Small Grant Program 2025-26 | CLaSH
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Climate Crisis Info (from Bryan Godbe) @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
"Venezuela's oil is heavy & dense, and requires special refineries. Burning any type of oil contributes to climate change, but Venezuela's oil is "among the dirtiest oils in the world to produce when it comes to global warming," says Paasha Mahdavi, at UC Santa Barbara." www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
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Trump wants U.S. oil companies in Venezuela. Here's what to know
President Trump wants more U.S. oil companies to "go in" to Venezuela. But there are economic, historical, and climate reasons that may not be easy. Here's what you need to know about oil in Venezuela...
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Choose your fighter: Putin or Trump
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
After reviewing nearly 200 applications from prospective grad students and postdocs over the past few months for a couple different 🧪⚒️ postings, here are some tips, at least as they apply to North American positions. I hope they help future applicants. Share with your networks. 🧵
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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Darrow and Jacobs 2025) presents a landslide inventory that extends over a century for Alaska. It clearly demonstrates that climate change is driving a significant increase in landslides in this US state. eos.org/thelandslide...
The recorded incidence of landslides in Alaska by decade, from Darrow and Jacobs (2025).
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Some people said my AGU poster actually looks good, I’ll take it haha My first PhD paper draft is almost done (not sure tho). There will definitely be more zoomed-in maps…
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
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Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
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University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) @colorado.edu · 22/12/2025
New cires.colorado.edu research shows that winter clouds in the Arctic may be warming the region more than expected. ☁️ Using surface observations from Alaska’s North Slope, scientists uncovered how shifting cloud patterns are influencing rising temperatures. Read more ↓ bit.ly/3MtD4tQ
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Long-term surface observations reveal clouds play key role in Arctic winter warming
Ground-based measurements from Alaska's North Slope offer a new perspective on how changing Arctic clouds impact rising temperatures on Earth's surface.
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CLaSH-an NSF Center for Land Surface Hazards @clashgeohazards.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Join CLaSH at #AGU2025! 📘Wed: EPSP session: Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes 🌟Thu: Town Hall — Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH): Next Steps and Opportunities for Engagement Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me... #CLaSH #LandSurfaceHazards #EarthScience
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Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH): Next Steps and Opportunities for Engagement
Landslides and floods are examples of surface processes that contribute to cascading hazards – sequences of events in which one geohazard triggers another, resulting in cumulative impacts that are mor...
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
No fun at AGU this year? It was expected, but still… Take me to EGU 😪
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It’s interesting to see how many ice avalanches occurred due to earthquake and aftershocks!
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
While finalizing my class project on active remote sensing for glaciers, I ran into this animation again. Ten years ago I read the article behind it for my first academic assignment ever, and I still remember how excited I was. Science does not exist without emotions. doi.org/10.5194/tc-9...
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Romanticizing overpriced ski towns is my guilty pleasure 📍Telluride, CO
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A giant low angle glacier detachment (40 M m3) occurred on 1st Nov. 2022 in the remote Kunlun range (Tibet, 90.869° E, 35.969° N) and was discovered only 2 years later! 😲🧊🌊 Before collapsing the glacier reached speeds of up to 46 m/day! ⚡️ Must read! 🔥 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A serac broke off high on the steep Ultar Glacier and the avalanche reached the Hunza Valley, covering Karimabad and surroundings with snow and dust! 🧊❄️😱 Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️ 🎥 karimiehunzai
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Based on climate trends in the Caucasus, Kolka Glacier was not expected to return after the 2002 collapse. But it did! Today it has already regained about 50% of its pre-collapse mass, mostly thanks to constant snow, ice, and rock avalanches filling the basin. Photos from our 2021 field trip!
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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
#Avalanches are of key importance to #glaciers worldwide. An international research team led by Marin Kneib (WSL & ETH Zurich) shows that up to 22% of the snow on glaciers comes from avalanches. WSL-News: www.wsl.ch/en/news/aval... @marinkneib.bsky.social @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
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Avalanches are of key importance to glaciers worldwide
An international research team shows that avalanches contribute significantly to the health of many glaciers.
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
WTF
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Avalanches again, but this time in beautiful Kyrgyzstan (2021). The mountains looked surreal in the windows of the Kyrgyz State Historical Museum. I really miss field trips now, even though I didn’t really enjoyed them at the time. Funny how that works.
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Ekaterina (Katya) Bashkova @glacierhazard.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
It is hard to believe, but I miss Russian winter after 3 years in the United States. Russian far North is my favorite place in the country (after Central Caucasus, of course). Here are some photos from Khibiny mountains (Kola peninsula), where we did snow and avalanche assessment in Jan 2018 & 2022
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Zermatters are really working hard to destroy their land! 😭 After Gorner dam, digging Theodule gl. and excessive cable cars, introducing... A 260 m-high tower! 😲 'to fix the housing shortage caused by tourist pressure' 😂 Wait, have you thought about regulating this unrestrained tourism?! 🤔🤬 1/
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
In this animation, we can see that the glacier detached sometime between September 4 and 21, 2025 (actually Sept 17-21), and a piece traveled ~5km down valley to just below the village of Safedob. And then on Oct 25, the glacier farther upvalley again advanced, pushing the detached piece another km
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