Stephen Roberts

Tom Bradwell helping out on the boat

Morning tea at SCENE with Colin Adams, Iain Geldard, Jodie Geldard, Eileen Tisdall, and Tom Bradwell sat around a table in the common area

Colin Adams and Tom Bradwell inflating the raft on the beach at SCENE

Ellen Tisdall carrying a core back to shore along the boat jetty at the end of days’ coring

And a big thanks to our ‘special guest stars’ Tom Bradwell and Eileen Tisdall from University of Stirling and Nicola Dakin from @bgs.ac.uk for all their help

SCENE University of Glasgow research centre where we were based - photo shows the road leading up to the wooden building through the forest

Collection of sediment cores taken from Loch Lomond over the last 2 weeks strapped into the van for transport to BAS and Southampton for analysis as part of Jodie Geldard’s Iapetus DTP PhD with University of Stirling

Final day lunch at the oldest pub in Scotland, the Clachan with Colin Adams, Iain Geldard, Tom Bradwell, and Jodie Geldard (not in photo)

Selfie With Tom Bradwell outside the sign for the Clachan in Drymen, the oldest pub in Scotland (apparently)

A huge thanks to everyone at @sceneuog.bsky.social for hosting us - in particular Prof. Colin Adams for his phenomenal support, & Iain Geldard - we couldn’t have done it without both of you! Jodie Geldard did an amazing job organising the whole trip as part of her @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD

Not everyday was like this but we had a couple of flat calm hot and sunny days out on the lake with stunning views across to Ben Lomond and surrounding mountains … which was very nice @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

Loch Lomond at sunset with coring rig moored in sheltered bay at SCENE university of Glasgow research centre

Loch Lomond view from the southern basin across to Ben Lomond

Collecting cores in the middle of Loch Lomond - 4 people capping a surface core retrieved for potential fish eDNA analysis

Early morning calm on Loch Lomond

Some pictures from the last couple of weeks lake sediment coring on Loch Lomond with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social

That's all for Loch Lomond coring: 12 cores collected in 10 days, 2 gravel layers reached and lots of very fine grey clay in between! @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

Orange ring sculpture

Spiky orb in Clearwell Caves

Sculpture of Red sunglasses in the foreground and orange high heeled shoes out of focus in the background

Sculpture of people holding hands in the shape of ladder

Amazing sculpture exhibition Clearwell Caves in the Wye Valley

Iapetus news, May 2025 The latest news from Iapetus DTP

We have just sent out the latest of Iapetus DTP's periodic newsletters. If it fell foul of your institution’s junk filter, read it here: eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

Edinburgh scenes, day and night

Edinburgh looking fine on the first day of the Iapetus student conference 2025, funded by @ukri.org.

Picture of my foot on Platform 4 Zone 5 at Peterborough station

Picture of the inside of the empty quiet carriage on the LNER train to Edinburgh

Early start … on my way to Edinburgh for the @iapetusdtp.bsky.social annual conference

@iapetusdtp.bsky.social

A list of 5 REP research experience placements available for this summer

A picture of the thermosphere showing the F-region around the Earth

Iapetus Research experience placement (REP) projects are available for summer 2025 including one based @bas.ac.uk investigating the
Effects of Climate Change on the Polar Ionospheric F-region - see link for more details and eligibility criteria; deadline 12 pm 16/5/25

iapetus2.ac.uk/rep-projects/

Congratulations to all the editors for bringing everyone together and producing such a beautiful book, just in time for #Earthday - a big thanks to @oceanandice.bsky.social for keeping us all on track - really enjoyed being part of this!

Why is Antarctica so important?

Antarctica might feel very remote - until you look at the planet from a different perspective. It's actually central to our world's ocean currents.

🎁 Check the alt text to dig into this diagram

🌊 This is from a new book by BAS' @oceanandice.bsky.social (et al.)

Some reviews … “This remarkable volume reviews everything Antarctic, in a stunning sweep encompassing geophysical history, climate, ice sheets, sea ice, ecology, politics, pollution, and more … a ‘must-have’ book”.
Susan Solomon, 1999 National Medal of Science Laureate

Pollution in Antarctica | 8 | Antarctica and the Earth System | Stephe This chapter examines the historical legacy of human activities in and around Antarctica and assesses pollutants from the mid-late 20th century onwards that

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Antarctica’s global impact highlighted in new book - British Antarctic Survey This Earth Day the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is spotlighting a new book that showcases the latest insights from the Antarctic.

New book out for Earth Day - includes a chapter on Pollution in Antarctica … link to open access version in next post

www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

REP Scheme Summer Research Experience placements for current undergraduate students.Applications for 2025 are now open. Please see our list of projects and How to Apply, below, to start your application. Ov...

Undergraduates: fancy a 6-8 wk paid placement in environmental sciences at an Iapetus institution? Check out NERC's REP scheme to support placements for those from groups underrepresented in this area
More info: iapetus2.ac.uk/new-rep-sche...
Deadline: noon 16/05/2025

#minoritiesinstem #environment

Properly mind-blowing event yesterday east of Annapurna II (NE face visible here, 7,937 m, Nepal)! 😱

Probably triggered by ice (+rock?) avalanche at high elev., given the reach and the absence of snow at the moment 🧊

The extent of the aerosol is... HUGE! ❄️🌪️

Source www.tiktok.com/@lakpasherpi...

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

A black and white picture of Tal-y-Llyn lake next to Cadair Idris in Wales

A photo of showing reflection of Phewa Lake, Pokhara, Nepal

A black and white picture of a horse in front of Rara Lake in Mugu district, NE Nepal

Some pictures of lakes: Tal-y-llyn, Wales; Phewa Lake, Pokhara, Nepal; Rara Lake, Mugu, Nepal

Delighted to say that our NERC science project "Deplete and Retreat" team will be contributing to a side event at the UNESCO World Day of the Glacier celebration in Paris next week. Our side event, "A vanishing mountain cryosphere and its importance to the water cycle under climate change"

Fab short thread on the MSc Quaternary Science @rhulgeography.bsky.social. I taught & convened Quantitative Environmental Palaeocology (2000-2012). It was some of the most enjoyable teaching I did, esp. the weekend fieldtrips coring lakes 🤩

Thank you to all past students & co-teachers 🙏🏼 #geosky

Hugo’s big day out on Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham

Glacier status, recession and change in Nepal - AntarcticGlaciers.org Glacier recession in Nepal is driven by temperature rises and influenced by ice dynamics e.g. debris cover, lakes and topography.

How are glaciers in #Nepal faring? New article from @gunjan87.bsky.social discussing the status and behaviour of Nepalese glaciers #Himalaya #glaciers #IGYP
www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and...

28 people have added their names already. If you'd like to join us in solidarity and to emphasise the importance of EDI in polar science, then let me know.
www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/02/pola...

Location map of Antarctica, the Antarctic Peninusla and Hodgson Lake showing its geomorphology and sampling sites

Cartoon showing the evolution of Lake Hodgson since before the Last Glacial Maxium

We wrote a couple of papers about Hodgson Lake (a few years ago) describing what it’s like now and what we thought it was like at the Last Glacial Maximum and before …

doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

Black and white photo of footprints on a beach and in the snow

Footprints in the sand (Elia beach, Mykonos) and snow (Princess Elizabeth Station, East Antarctica)

❄️It's that time of year again!❄️ The Antarctic Science International Bursary is open for applications!
£6000 bursaries available to ECRs anywhere in the world for #Antarctic science projects that extend the scope of current work. Deadline 21 March antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an...

4 portrait pictures showing: Frost on a gate post; a kestrel sitting on top of the tree branch: a telegraph pole in the winter sun, frozen plant with frost on it

Some photos from a below freezing walk out to Cottenham and back to Cambridge today

Four photos from a sunset walk round Stourbridge Common

Sunset walk in a crisp and chilly Cambridge …