Prof Steve Darby

Associate Professor Ryan Reisinger, in a black puffer jacket and maroon beanie, stands on a boat with icy mountains and ocean in the background.

Colourful map showing humpback whale migration routes across the South Atlantic Ocean, with tracking lines connecting South America and Africa.

This #WorldOceansDay, we’re proud to share BlueCorridors.org - a game-changing WWF platform mapping 1,437 whales’ journeys from 31 years of data 🌊

Associate Professor Ryan Reisinger and PhD student Josh Wilson played a key role in its creation.

Explore the platform 👉 www.BlueCorridors.org

Van de Ven's goal line clearance in the Europa League final with the worlds 'To Dare Is To Do' beneath the Tottenham Hotspur badge. COYS.

I am declaring a national holiday

Absolutely delighted to see this brilliant new river hydrography, GRIT, published as a key output from our NERC funded EVOFLOOD project

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

📢📢Call for Abstracts 🌍🌊
Working in climate change, geomorphology, and/or flooding? Submit abstracts by 18th Feb to JpGU 2025! 25-30 May in Chiba www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/
Key sessions:
Climate, Rivers & Floods: www.jpgu.org/meeting_e202...
Population Data & Risk: www.jpgu.org/meeting_e202...

Less than 30 days left, submit your abstract by 15 Jan 2025!

Join us @channelwidth.bsky.social, @bedforms.bsky.social, Yinxue Liu, and Anya Leenman at #EGU25. Great chance to discuss floods and morphological impacts on rivers and deltas #GM3.3!

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

The Royal Society's Faraday Discovery Fellowships are still open for applications. These Fellowships are long-term awards designed to support emerging research leaders in undertaking high-quality, original research. Apply now: #RSGrants https://buff.ly/4gIHzuE

One in four properties may be at risk of flooding by 2050 - report Climate change could increase flood threats without improvements to defences, the Environment Agency warns.

By 2050 25% of UK homes at risk of flooding. This story has missed the main headlines today, but improved modelling and revised impacts of CC lead to a major increase in areas flagged at risk from flooding. It’s due to better diagnosis - AND - climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is the world 1.3°C or 1.5°C warmer? Historical ship logs hold answers Diverging estimates of 19th century ocean temperatures drive uncertainty over global warming

When Earth's temperature breaches +1.5/+2C depends on our emission choices and on the T during the pre-industrial era. Due to changes in the way we have measured ocean T through time (tinyurl.com/3trsfbrj) pre-industrial T is uncertain. Palaeoclimate offers a way to reduce this uncertainty (1/2) 🧪⚒️🌊

Congratulations Tom! It's a brilliant piece of work.

Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year: Opening the door to a new era of HIV prevention A drug with a novel mechanism protects people against the AIDS virus for 6 months. It could speed the end of the epidemic—if those who need it most get access

Congratulations to my @unisouthampton.bsky.social colleagues led by @gernon.bsky.social for being a runner up in @science.org breakthroughs of 2024 for their work on mantle waves! www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪⚒️ 👏🎉

Thinking about applying for an independent fellowship? at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social we offer a bespoke package to support you in the long term, including access to proleptic academic appointments. Check the info and please reach out if interested!

www.southampton.ac.uk/about/facult...

📢Submit your abstract to #EGU25 - our session on Geomorphology, Climate & Hazards #GM3.3 “Interactions between flooding & hydro-geomorphological processes in rivers and deltas” at @eurogeosciences.bsky.social

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

If you are enjoying the river science at #AGU24 and desperate for more - or if you are missing out - this #EGU25 session could be for you! #FOMO

Received the hard copy of this Geological Society of London Special Publication on #meandering that we co-edited with @alvitello.bsky.social and Paul Durkin - it’s nice to look at an actual book 🧪 ⚒️ www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/540/1

@envidynxlab.bsky.social

A drone shot shows numerous barges off-loading river sand to the shore of the Bassac River, with Phnom Penh's skyline in the background. Photo credit: Andy Ball

🚨Fully-Funded PhD Alert! 🚨 Want to join the @unisouthampton.bsky.social Leverhulme Resilience Centre? This project, supervised by me, @profjulianleyland.bsky.social and Dr Nick Dorward, explores links between sand mining, urbanisation and river-related risks: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

A few fully-funded competitive PhD opportunities open to work with me (+ colleagues) at @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

("Competitive" here means the process involves the full pool of all applicants in each of these programmes – so just put yourself in the mix!)

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Don't take my word for it: one major online retailer gives this a review rating of 4.4 out of 5 (though admittedly one reviewer is the lead-author's brother)

The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas A stunningly illustrated atlas of the world’s rivers, estuaries, and deltas, and their ecosystems

There are only 56 shopping days left until Christmas! This lavishly illustrated book could be the perfect gift for rivers-lovers of all ages!
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Screen shot of a tweet updating about university of Southampton involvement in national biofilm week

Grabbed this #NBIC tweet to share on 🦋 about national biofilms week involving @lonelyjoeparker.bsky.social from @unisouthampton.bsky.social #BioFilmWeek #Academicsky 🧫

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‘Catastrophic’ marine heatwaves are killing sealife and causing mass disruption to UK fisheries Targeted research must be launched urgently to save sea creatures and plant life, oceanography centre warns

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Typically, he turned up just as I got to my turn. A lose-lose!

A scene of despondency where your collaborator fails to turn up to the meeting on time yet again.

What happens first? Reaching the front of the ticket queue or your collaborator joining the meeting? @bedforms.bsky.social

Announcement for women in river research lecture - energy fluxes in streams and rivers by Joanna Blaszczak and Erin Hotchkiss. Nov 21 at 11 AM Eastern. There are two images, one of each scientist

🧪 today is the day! Are you excited about #streams? #carbon? Dynamic talks by fantastic #biogeofeminists? Tune in for the last #WARR talk of the year! Nov 21st, 11 am ET @fluvialbenthos.bsky.social @joannablaszczak.bsky.social 🔗 www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

We are now on Bluesky! ⛅ Follow us for updates from the British Society for Geomorphology

A pleasure being back in Tenerife with our students and @profjulianleyland.bsky.social