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Adam Hepburn

@adamjhepburn.bsky.social

VC’s fellow, geomorphologist modelling the water beneath glaciers on Earth and Mars- Aberystwyth University

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Snow covered landscape as seen from a plane window, showing some streamlined landforms.

Snow covered landscape as seen from a plane window, showing some streamlined landforms.

Still a lot of snow across northern Norway - good for spotting the locations of old ice streams πŸ˜€

04.05.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Nearly back from another great EGU, met loads of great people, learned about some amazing research and even found time to enjoy the sun

03.05.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Subglacial water amplifies Antarctic contributions to sea-level rise - Nature Communications Hidden water beneath Antarctica’s ice can accelerate ice loss, potentially raising sea levels by over 2 meters by 2300. These findings highlight the urgent need to incorporate evolving subglacial hydr...

πŸ“£ Our new paper is out in Nature Communications!
Subglacial waterβ€”often overlookedβ€”can change sea-level rise projections by up to a factor of three. Big implications for how we model Antarctica.
πŸ”— www.nature.com/articles/s41...

07.04.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberystwyth#/media/File:Aberystwyth_shore.jpg - looking south over Aberystwyth on a sunny day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberystwyth#/media/File:Aberystwyth_shore.jpg - looking south over Aberystwyth on a sunny day.

Two UKRI funded #PhD opportunities to join our lab @aberdlsagb.bsky.social

1. #Dormancy in soil #microbes: findaphd.com/phds/project... (closing 03/02)

2. #Aerosols and #zoonoses: findaphd.com/phds/project... (closing 31/01)

14.01.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Very take it or leave it on the 4:30am start

But really excited to be back in Sheffield and just about ready to give a seminar on modelling subglacial hydrology in Finland and Greenland

03.12.2024 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The organization of subglacial drainage during the demise of the Finnish Lake District Ice Lobe Abstract. Unknown basal characteristics limit our ability to simulate the subglacial hydrology of rapidly melting contemporary ice sheets. Sediment-based landforms generated beneath Late Pleistocene i...

Together with some amazing colleagues in Canada and Finland, we recently produced a paper describing the subglacial hydrology beneath the former Fennoscandian Ice sheet as it retreated 12,000 years ago tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

26.11.2024 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Man in flowery shirt stands in front of a glacial waterfall in Switzerland

Man in flowery shirt stands in front of a glacial waterfall in Switzerland

Now feels like a good time to start trying to use this properly, I’m Adam, a research fellow at Aberystwyth University interested in the flow of water beneath glaciers.

Some might charitably describe me as a ice sheet modeller, but I’m more like a muddling geomorphologist with a MATLAB license…

26.11.2024 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Come and work with me in Bristol and beyond on glacier microbes, carbon fluxes, ice sheet hydrology or natural flood management solutions: a fab crop of PhD projects with lovely collaborators
www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co... or
www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/... or
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

26.11.2024 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Is this not normal behaviour? It’s my favourite bit πŸ™ƒ

22.11.2023 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sssh I’m trying to pretend I’m an Earth one now…

17.11.2023 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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