Dr Alastair Curry

@hertsgep delivering the FIRST #drone-piloting (UAV) course for our #Geography and #Environment students at our environmental field station. Herts is one of a handful of UK universities offering hands-on #drone flight experience to students. #GoHerts #ChooseGeography @rgs_ibg @theies_uk

13.05.2025 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After Easter we took our 2nd year #geography and #environment BSc students to Wester Ross for the @hertsgep #Quaternary field-course. An amazing week of Scottish sunshine, stunning scenery and fabulous fieldwork, with students gaining lots of key field skills. #iceage @uniofherts

03.05.2025 17:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Glorious day for surveying, sediments and geotechnical analysis of the landslides at Warden Point, Kent with 2nd year geomorphology class @hertsgep @uniofherts #fieldworkfriday #landslide #geography #university

07.03.2025 06:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 - Nature An intercomparison exercise reassesses mass loss from glaciers worldwide based on the main in situ and satellite methods from 2000 to 2023; the results are consistent with previous assessments and pro...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

20.02.2025 23:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please add me Bethan, thanks

04.02.2025 08:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very exciting to grow lenses of segregation #ice and observe frost heave in our final year #periglacial lab today @hertsgep @uniofherts.bsky.social

28.01.2025 18:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3 weeks to go til our @hertsgep final year #Glacial and #Periglacial #fieldtrip to #Snowdonia @UniofHerts @uniofhertslms @RGS_IBG #fieldwork #ChooseGeography

24.01.2025 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two future possibilities of the future warming stripes - rapid action or delayed action.

What will the future of the warming stripes be?

2024 could be the start of a stabilisation of global temperatures, or it might appear to be a cool year.

Which one of these stories becomes reality depends on our choices today, and every day until then.

We are likely to regret not acting sooner.

10.01.2025 11:13 — 👍 445    🔁 225    💬 18    📌 11

Graph showing annual global mean temperatures from 1850 to 2024 as differences from the 1850-1900 average. Data are from six data sets: HadCRUT5, Berkeley Earth, GISTEMP, NOAAGlobalTemp, ERA5 and JRA-3Q. 2024 is clearly the warmest year at around 1.55 degrees C above the 1850-1900 average.

So, we have the global temperatures for the whole of 2024.

It was the warmest year on record (1850-2024) across six widely used datasets: HadCRUT5, Berkeley Earth, GISTEMP, NOAAGlobalTemp, ERA5 and JRA-3Q.

10.01.2025 16:32 — 👍 122    🔁 64    💬 2    📌 7

Photo showing a braided river with mountains in the background

📸BSG ART COMPETITION 2024🎨
🚨FIVE days🚨

Scroll through your field photos or get out your paint brush #geomorphology

Prizes:
£100 🥇
£50 🥈🥉
Deadline: 10th Jan
T&Cs: geomorphology.org.uk/2024/11/26/n...
Make sure you tag us, #BSGAC24 and add a caption!

06.01.2025 18:12 — 👍 18    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 2

Nice raised beach deposits (~+4 m OD) of possible MIS7 or 5e age, with #periglacial head and windblown sands at #Godrevy #Quaternary #Kernow

27.12.2024 18:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’s a nice sand-blow story for someone to reconstruct down here if not done already. Medieval field systems upslope …

27.12.2024 18:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Last bit of #fieldwork for the year - some nice #moraine work in the Shap Fells, Cumbria. Time to warm up and dry out @hertsgep

03.12.2024 12:38 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Geoffrey and Jemima were really loving the excellent London #Quaternary Lectures up until the bit about Pleistocene #megafauna extinctions @rhulgeography.bsky.social

27.11.2024 20:43 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Poster, LQL logo. The London Quaternary Lectures. Wednesday 27th November 2024. 16:00 Professor Joy Singarayer, University of Reading. Lecture title: “Agents of Change: Exploring how humans shaped and were shaped by Late Quaternary climate” [LQL No.111]. Refreshments from 17:00 - 17:30. 17:30 Professor Sarah Woodroffe, Durham University. Lecture title: "Relative sea-level changes and the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet" [LQL No.112] Wine reception from 18:30. Shilling Lecture Theatre, Shilling Building, Royal Holloway, University of London. Centre of Quaternary Research Logo, Royal Holloway, University of London Logo, In person, All welcome, #CQRLQL

This years London Quaternary Lectures are on Wednesday 27th November from 4pm in the Shilling Lecture Theatre.
In person, all welcome - hope to see you there !
#CQRLQL #Quaternary #QuaternaryScience #royalhollowayuniversityoflondon #RoyalHollowayUniversity #lectureseries

18.11.2024 10:57 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Fantastic, Jana, very very well done!!

25.11.2024 22:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My first post on this platform so thought I’d share some treasures from a recent trip to the Early-Mid Pleistocene ‘Contorted Drift’ in N Norfolk: chalk rafts, glacitectonite and thrusts galore!

21.11.2024 21:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1