Andy Shepherd

Very excited to be part of this dream team of supervisors 🇦🇶
Interested in ice shelves?
Come join us at @cpom-uk.bsky.social, the North East 🇬🇧 is a pretty great place to be!

Huge congratulations to @amyswiggs.bsky.social on passing her PhD today 🥳 If you need expert advice on tracking Arctic sea ice with satellite altimetry, Dr Swiggs is the person to ask 😊 Thanks to examiners Ben Brock, Jeremy Wilkinson & Leanne Wake.

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Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century - Nature Climate Change It has been argued that air temperatures over mountain glaciers are decoupled from surrounding warming, which could slow down melting. Here the authors show that this effect will weaken with future glacier retreat, leading to a recoupling of temperatures from the 2030s onwards.

Mountain glaciers are warming more slowly than their surroundings because of changes in debris cover and wind speed, which insulate them. However, new statistical analysis suggests that this "decoupling" will end in the coming decades, when they will melt more rapidly

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Castleton Youth Hostel, aka Losehill Hall, a gothic victorian stately home built in 1882

People baking in a kitchen

Watercolour postcard paintings of Castleton scenes arranged on a table

A group of fell runners passing through a narrow gap in the hillside

44 science talks, bakeoffs, painting, archery, drone radar training, fell running, and a quiz. It can only be the @cpom-uk.bsky.social annual meeting at the magnificent YHA Castleton ! Thanks to all CPOM friends and family for making it such a fun event. Looking forwards to next year already 😊

Castleton Youth Hostel, aka Losehill Hall, a gothic victorian stately home built in 1882

People baking in a kitchen

Watercolour postcard paintings of Castleton scenes arranged on a table

A group of fell runners passing through a narrow gap in the hillside

44 science talks, bakeoffs, painting, archery, drone radar training, fell running, and a quiz. It can only be the @cpom-uk.bsky.social annual meeting at the magnificent YHA Castleton ! Thanks to all CPOM friends and family for making it such a fun event. Looking forwards to next year already 😊

Siberian cave deposits show that the Arctic was permafrost free 8.7 million years ago when the climate was 4.5C warmer with 130 billion tons more C02 in the atmosphere. Nice work @speleoseb.bsky.social

Couldn't be more proud of our little (!) boy Gabe and his GB team mates Dean, Filip, and Jack. European Junior Champions for 4 x 100 medley relay 🥇🏊‍♂️ @teamgbofficial.bsky.social

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Thankyou Craig Donlon, Juliette Lambin, Rune Floberghagen and Simonetta Cheli for placing your faith in these wonderful students !

I joined the last leg of the voyage as they sailed to the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice. We lived and worked together, and I was blown away by their ingenuity, dedication, and collegiality. Ocean science is in safe hands with this team.

This week I had the immense pleasure and privilege to join 50 young researchers on the @esa.int Advanced Ocean Training Course aboard the magnificent tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl

Check out the reception they gave us as the ship arrived in Mahon !

Almost 40% of world’s glaciers already doomed due to climate crisis – study Glacier loss has profound effects worldwide and will soar to 75% on Earth’s heating trajectory, say scientists

Fantastic new study in Science brings together a suite of model predictions

Glacier melting will continue for centuries, even if climate warming stops today

Our mountain landscapes will be unrecognisable if we continue to burn fossil fuels as we are today

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Fantastic field week with 100+ First Years in the Lake District! Hills, tills, rocks, land-and soundscapes, and so much more. I fear we used up our 5-year sunshine quota tho 🌞😎

How to build and open a 12 metre antenna in space ! Congratulations @esa.int and the BIOMAS team 👏🛰️🌳

The Spirit of the Rainforest The Spirit of the Rainforest

Peruvian scientist, conservationist, and National Geographic Explorer, Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, will give a public lecture about her work in the Amazon Rainforest.

📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle

💡 Discover more and register FREE here:

My latest for @eos.org about a global comparison of mass change of mountain glaciers #GlaMBIE, which shows that the ice we lose each year amounts to the water intake of the entire global population in 30 years; with @andyshepherd.bsky.social, @drljv.bsky.social et al

Happy 15th birthday to the @esa.int CryoSat mission 🎂

Now 11.5 years beyond its planned lifetime

A phenomenal feat of space engineering !

Sun going down over the bay in Oban, reflecting in the ocean

Gosh, quite the evening in Oban

A picture of the harbour in Oban looking out to sea. The headland is on the left and there are islands in the distance. Clear blue sky above

Excited for the day ahead on Mull 😊

Sunset in Oban - what a gift !

A picture of 45 students standing on a rock outcrop in Scotland with blue sky and a valley in the background

A fabulous day exploring the geology and geomorphology of Glenfinnan with our fabulous @northumbriauni.bsky.social students 😎

Good morning 🌄 !

An ice cream with a flowering gauze and seascape in the background

Students gathered and a grass bank beside the beach

A view of the sea taken from a forest with an island in the background

Two students sampling forest ecology

What an incredible day we have had today in Oban. Blue skies and happy students. What's not to like 😎

Two students marking a survey boundary in woodland

A glorious day in Oban sampling forest ecology with our @northumbriauni.bsky.social Y2 geography students

A picture of the calm sea at Oban with blue sky and an island in the distance

Perfect weather in Oban for the start of our @northumbriauni.bsky.social Y2 Geography field study visit. I'm morecthan excited for the week ahead!

Sunrise over harrogate. Rooftops are in silhoutte, the sky moves through orange to blue

Good morning 😍

Another fun interview on the science of penguins, icebergs, and satellites ☺️

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Fabulous community dataset ⬇️

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Fantastic @ptfretwell.bsky.social , thankyou !

Fantastic @ptfretwell.bsky.social thankyou !