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Research & teaching on Glaciers, Geohazards, Climate Change, Water Resources, Sustainability at University of Dundee
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Simon Cook @glaciocook.bsky.social · 3 mo
🌊I was interviewed for BBC World Service Newshour programme about the unprecedented #floods currently affecting #Kazakhstan and #Russia across the Ural region. You can listen to the full report from 1m10s. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Newshour - 'Worst floods in decades' hit Kazakhstan and Russia - 'Worst floods in decades' hit Kazakhstan and Russia - BBC Soundswww.bbc.co.uk Mass evacuations continue amid the worst flooding in eighty years
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Simon Cook @glaciocook.bsky.social · 3 mo
🏔️🌊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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Dan Shugar @watershedlab.bsky.social · 4 mo
New paper alert! Interested in the relationship between big #earthquakes and #glacial lake outburst floods (#GLOFs)? 🧪⚒️ dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023...
Shaking up Assumptions: Earthquakes Have Rarely Triggered Andean Glacier Lake Outburst Floodsdx.doi.org <em>Geophysical Research Letters</em> is an AGU journal publishing high-impact, innovative articles on major advances spanning all of the major geoscience disciplines.
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Mauri Pelto @mauri-pelto.bsky.social · 4 mo
Excellent, Figure 5 illustrates that recently El Nino is noticeable noise on top of the large warming signal.
Avatar Simon Cook @glaciocook.bsky.social · 4 mo
🚨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 · 4 mo
🚨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 · 5 mo
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 · 6 mo
If you like #landslides and you like size (🤷🏻‍♂️) then you might like our latest paper on landslide size classification now out in the January issue of Landslides. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Simon Cook @glaciocook.bsky.social · 6 mo
#Dundee doing its thing this afternoon
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7 mo
Want to know what some of the mountain works by famous British painter J.M.W. Turner actually represent? 🖌️🎨🏔️ Find out more in this detective story led by M.P. Kirkbride in which two works from Turner's 1836 trip to Val d'Aosta have been relocated! journals.openedition.org/rga/11844
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Simon Cook @glaciocook.bsky.social · 8 mo
Wintry #Dundee today
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Simon Cook @glaciocook.bsky.social · 9 mo
Local stream, the Dighty Burn, now at record levels #StormBabet #Dundee
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Simon Cook @glaciocook.bsky.social · 9 mo
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 · 9 mo
⛰️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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