Giovanni Baccolo

Check out our latest work from the Dolomites. We tried to estimate the mass balance of the remaining Dolomites glaciers since the 1980s using LiDAR, SfM and historical imagery. No surprise: huge mass loss, shrinking area, and increasing debris cover.

Paper: tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

27.03.2025 10:41 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Diversity of isotopic composition of anthropogenic radioactivity on glaciers in the Alps The dark sediment on the surface of glaciers, called cryoconite, plays an important role in accumulating various contaminants during glacier melting. …

❄️ Glaciers are not just ice❄️

We examined the sources of radioactivity in cryoconite, the sediment accumulating on glacier surfaces.

The main contributors? Nuclear tests, the Chernobyl disaster, and the atmospheric re-entry of the SNAP-9A satellite.

📖: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

04.03.2025 08:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Line graph time series of 2025's daily global sea ice extent in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2024 using shades of purple to white for each line. There is substantial interannual and daily variability. Seasonal cycles are visible. Note: the poles are affected by very different Earth system processes/seasonality. I am using 5-day running mean data.

While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels...

More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

03.03.2025 16:39 — 👍 539    🔁 213    💬 16    📌 15

Anyone working on climate change has almost certainly used graphics by @zacklabe.com, they’re a global reference. That’s why it’s truly astonishing to learn he was fired from @noaa.gov.

All my support to him. I hope he finds a new role where his talent is fully valued and recognized.

03.03.2025 22:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🎉🎉🎉 Woo hoo! 🎉🎉🎉

Amazing feat by the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice team!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Smashing the 800,000 year record for a continuous ice core by a country mile back to 1.2 million years ago.

09.01.2025 10:58 — 👍 68    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0

Quando la neve a gennaio fa notizia.
Nell'immagine l'altopiano del Laceno (by Skyline) innevato e considerevolmente freddo. Non dovrebbe esserci nulla di anomalo o incredibile in questa foto, perché l'Appennino meridionale ha una storia fatta di grandi nevicate, eppure rimaniamo sorpresi... 1/6

14.01.2025 09:34 — 👍 155    🔁 21    💬 6    📌 3

A great opportunity at a fantastic department - Assistant Professor in Physical Geography @geogdurham.bsky.social. We are looking for candidates with expertise in ice sheets and glaciers that will complement and extend our current work. Closing date 12th January.❄️⚒️🧪 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

09.12.2024 09:59 — 👍 48    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 1

Happy birthday to the Cryoblog! The EGU Cryosphere Blog is now 10 years old: Happy Birthday! It all started in December 2014 with this blog post from Nanna Karlsson, and now counts 452 blog posts across 25 blog categories, including...

For a few years I was part of the great @eurogeosciences.bsky.social cryoblog team.

It was one of my first steps in science communication and I was happy to relive those times in this interview prepared for the blog's 10th anniversary!

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...

09.12.2024 16:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I ghiacciai in ritirata sulle Alpi stanno restituendo molto materiale della cultura neolitica

Stupefacente e dimenticato dai media è il porta arco in corteccia di betulla trovato in Svizzera

Unico ritrovamento al mondo

Quanto importante era preservare dalle intemperie il proprio arco! 🧪

05.12.2024 09:30 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Let's start with a nice landscape carved by a glacier 20,000 years ago or so.

26.11.2024 15:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0