Will Harcourt

Back in my favourite place, Svalbard!

Ny-Ålesund?

Very cool!

I’ll come and say hi (and maybe also see you on the Edinburgh flight on Sunday?)

I am extremely happy to see my colleague Brice Rea be appointed as the next director of @scotsages.bsky.social!

I am looking forward to seeing SAGES continue to flourish in the years to come!

📢 Leadership Update from SAGES!🌍

We’re thrilled to announce that Professor Brice Rea from the University of Aberdeen has been appointed as the new Director of SAGES, taking over in July 2025.

Swiss glacier collapse buries most of village of Blatten Many homes in Blatten have been flattened after a large chunk of the Birch glacier fell on to the village.

Shocking scenes following the disintegration and collapse of the Birch Glacier. A stark example of the evolving nature of cryospheric hazards under rapid warming and deglaciation in mountain regions. Monitoring and early evacuation prevented a bigger human impact here.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

The 2025 SAGES Annual Science Meeting in Stirling has been great!

Thanks so all who came along and presented. It's been a wonderful two days in Stirling.

Another great @scotsages.bsky.social conference - a wonderful community producing great science!

We took friends who didn’t care about Eurovision to a Eurovision party last night - they were so confused!

Nice to see you briefly yesterday!

And another #EGU25 contribution where #3DGeo is involved!

Meet @willharcourt.bsky.social and Hannah at this poster next Thursday to learn and discuss about multi-scale digital twins 🤗

EGU Contributions!

Next week we will be at EGU in Vienna presenting some of our teams exciting new research! Please come and talk to us: Poster #1 🧊 The distribution of glacier surge behaviour in Svalbard and implications for understanding unstable ice flow📅 Poster | Monday, 28 Apr, 10:45–12:30…

See you there, Bethan! Sorry i didn't include your handle, limited space in the text!

See you there, let's grab a beer at some point!

🧊 Linking small- and large-scale Digital Twins: A concept

📅 Poster | Thursday, 01 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST), Hall X5, X5.151

📰 Abstract: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

✍ Authors: Aiden Durrant, Me, @bernhardhofle.bsky.social, @hannahwe.bsky.social, @tabernig.bsky.social

🧊 Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning for Sea Ice Segmentation in the Arctic to Reduce on Labelling

📅 Poster | Thursday, 01 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST), Hall X4, X4.8

📰 Abstract: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

✍ Authors: Jacob Seston, Me, et al.

🧊 The distribution of glacier surge behaviour in Svalbard and implications for understanding unstable ice flow

📅 Poster | Monday, 28 Apr, 10:45–12:30 (CEST), Hall X5, X5.125

📰 Abstract: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

Authors: Me, Wojciech Gajek, @dannipearce.bsky.social et al.

Next week I will be at EGU in Vienna presenting some of our teams exciting new research - please come and talk to us!

Here's a flavour of what we will be offering this year:

New paper on using the internal GPS data from seismometers to track ice flow!

Great work by Wojciech Gajek, also inc. @adrianluckman.bsky.social @dannipearce.bsky.social & Richard Hann

First paper on the Borebreen surge, watch this space for more coming soon…

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Blue sky over #UnitedKingdom!
The spring almost cloudfree #Copernicus #Sentinel3 images collected on April 2nd shows green field and awesome shades of Ocean colours surrounding the islands.
#Ireland #England #Scotland #Wales #UKweather
@giuliofirenze.bsky.social @eumetsat.int

Nice paper!

Happy #WorldDayforGlaciers! 🧊🧊

I will forever be captivated by these natural beauties.

New ESA Project! We are pleased to share our new project that officially kicked off in 2025: 'Svalbard Cryosphere Digital Twin (SvalbardDT)'. Website here: The SvalbardDT project will build a Digital Twin Component (DTC) as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESAs) Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative to build a digital twin of the Earth. We will construct a new DTC of the ice and snow of Svalbard’s cryosphere in the 21st Century through an automated data management system to ingest, harmonise, and analyse data products ready for delivery to the Digital Twin Earth Service Platform (DESP).

New ESA Project!

We are pleased to share our new project that officially kicked off in 2025: 'Svalbard Cryosphere Digital Twin (SvalbardDT)'. Website here: The SvalbardDT project will build a Digital Twin Component (DTC) as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESAs) Destination Earth (DestinE)…

Did they say 2,000 glaciers on Svalbard?! Closer to 1,500 ;)

Running along the beach in Aberdeen this morning with the wind and rain battering down.

It's not everyone's cup of tea, but I must say I kind of enjoy it!

We are at the ESA Digital Twin workshop - great to be a part of the Destination Earth initiative!

YouTube video by SAGES Innovating the Future: Technology, AI, and sustainable water solutions

Hear about how AI and other new technologies are set to transform climate research and build a sustainable future in Scotland and further afield!

I was delighted to participate in this episode of the magnificent @scotsages.bsky.social Climate Podcast!

youtu.be/1odPOyrwpWo?...

New to Bluesky? Interested in the Arctic and Antarctic?
A good starting point is:
go.bsky.app/7RL1i9C

Matteo Spagnolo gives an address at the launch of the @scotsages.bsky.social Climate Podcast!