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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Drone shots from Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at the weekend. The gravel spit blocks the river mouth, which used to be a harbour

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

❄️🌊 NEW PAPER: Transboundary outburst floods from giant supraglacial lakes over the Himalayan China–Nepal border. Published in Advances in Climate Change Research In July 2025 two giant supraglacial lakes drained across the China-Nepal border. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Interviewed yesterday on @bbc5live.bsky.social about glacier shrinkage in the Pamir mountains, central Asia. An area that, up to just a few years ago, had been characterised by relative glacier stability and even growth ❄️🤒 Even these last stalwarts now falling in line with global trend of shrinkage

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Some drone shots of Svínafellsjökull, Iceland, from our 3rd year Geography & Environmental Science fieldtrip. #dundee #iceland #glacier

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The #artemis balloons sure do look like Tunnocks teacakes

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this roundabout on the edge of Cheadle” William Shakespeare

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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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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Lots of dune erosion and slumping at Lunan Bay, east Scotland, after what can be described as ‘pants’ weather recently. 6 y.o. for scale. #coast #landslide #beach #dune

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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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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🏔️NEW in @natcomms.nature.com: “High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming” www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤔There’s been lots of uncertainty about whether the number of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) has increased, decreased or flatlined in recent decades

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

📘 New paper: Post-Little Ice Age Shrinkage of the Tsaneri–Nageba Glacier System and Recent Proglacial Lake Evolution in the Georgian Caucasus 📉Glacier shrank ~43% since ~1820 🌊Lake grew from ~14,000m² in 2015 to ~107,900 m² 2025 ⚠️Hazard + water resources implications www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Random thought. Thailand could pass for a glacier. Nice wide accumulation zone (though struggling in the mid section)

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🏔️❄️New paper: “Multi-temporal DEMs used to quantify the geomorphological impact of a late 20th century glacier re-advance at Schwarzberggletscher, Switzerland”. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #glaciers #climatechange #sfm #geomorphology

Archive images of Schwarzberggletscher, Switzerland, showing the glacier front and its advance to produce a moraine.

Repeat DEMs from the 1974 to 2010 show that the glacier advanced and built a moraine, but that the landscape thawed since the early 1990s.

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Left high and dry, this former glacial meltwater channel was carved into the Sidlaw Hills just north of Dundee by the last ice sheet to occupy this region ~20,000 years ago. It’s one of several that i’ve been mapping with students & colleagues over the last couple of years.

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🏔️🌊❄️NEW PAPER in Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences (NHESS) Causes, consequences and implications of the 2023 landslide-induced Lake Rasac glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/... #glof #landslide #climatechange #climate #hazards

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

❄️🇺🇳 It’s the UN International Day of Glacier Preservation, so here’s a video of some shrinking glaciers in Iceland 🇮🇸 #iygp #glaciers #ice

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Magical morning yesterday at Loch Shiel, Glenfinnan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A 130m deep freshwater lake carved by glaciers #scotland #lake #geography #geomorphology

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Beautiful but cold day at Lunan Bay, Angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, yesterday. Parts of the beach and sand dunes were frozen.

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The Red Castle of Lunan Bay, Angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 15th century castle, though there’s been a structure here since the 12th century (…according to wikipedia) You can see part of the beach frozen in the background 🥶❄️ #drone #castle #scotland #winter

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

⛰️NEW PAPER⚒️ "Geology of the Mulkhura River Valley, Georgian Caucasus" in Geosciences: www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/14... We present & describe a geological map of the area to enhance geohazard management (lots of landslides!), natural resource management, geoconservation & geotourism. #geology #georgia

A geological map of the Mulkhura River Valley, Georgian Caucasus

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Good morning from #Dundee ❄️🥶🌅 A view over to the ice sheet-sculpted Devonian volcanic hills of Fife. #geology #geography

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

👋 new followers! I mostly post about the impacts of climate change on glacial & mountain regions. I variously describe myself as a glaciologist, geomorphologist, geographer, geologist, natural hazard scientist. Take your pick! I’m also on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok usually under glacio_cook

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Some shots from recent fieldwork in the Peloponnese, Greece 🇬🇷

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Feel like my data are trying to tell me something #middlefinger

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

🏔️🌊NEW PAPER - Shaking up Assumptions: Earthquakes Have Rarely Triggered Andean Glacier Lake Outburst Floods - in Geophysical Research Letters, led by @eisstrom.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

🚨NEW PAPER🚨Investigating the past, present and future responses of Shallap and Zongo Glaciers, Tropical Andes, to the El Niño Southern Oscillation In Journal of Glaciology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Some glacial striations from Balgay Hill in #Dundee Signs of glacial erosion from the last ice sheet to cover Scotland.

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Local stream, the Dighty Burn, now at record levels #StormBabet #Dundee

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Led my 1st year #EnvironmentalScience students yesterday into the belly of a weathered-out volcanic cone at Elie, Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Was active during the Carboniferous and early Permian. Lots of tuff and pyroclastic deposits 🌋🪨

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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

⛰️NEW PAPER⛰️ "A universal size classification system for landslides", in Landslides 🏔️Size is a basic property of #landslides, but we show it is described v inconsistently 🗻We devise a new, consistent size scheme We hope it's useful! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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