@floodpower.bsky.social
I'm a Physical Geographer based at Newcastle University (UK) specialising in the geomorphological and sedimentary impacts of floods in a variety of environments. I have conducted fieldwork in Iceland, Chile, UK and Greenland.
Flood flows on the River Tay at Birnam & Dunkeld 10 yrs ago during Storm Desmond. Not the largest flood on the Tay however properties were flooded. Peak discharge downstream at Ballathie exceeded 1800 cumecs (Marsh et al., 2016) lnkd.in/epNTVvcU
A couple of videos: flic.kr/p/Bsz417
flic.kr/p/AXbHLY
I’m delighted to share that our latest research has just been published in HESS.
We developed an unsupervised workflow to estimate river surface velocities from videos. Testing on 11,000+ videos against 274 gauging measurements showed excellent agreement.
hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...
That’s a wrap after 21 great years at Newcastle University! Although retired from full-time work I'll not be retiring from academia and am looking forward to working on a number of collaborative research projects.
31.07.2025 20:23 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Large distributary channel system on the distal portion of the 100km2 Skeiðarársandur, Iceland.
We invite abstracts (deadline 13 June - tomorrow!) to our session 'Distributary landforms: past, present and future' at the IAG International Congress on Geomorphology Christchurch New Zealand, Feb 2026.
www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/call...
Anya Leenman, Sam Woor, Andy Russell & Anastasia Piliouras
To celebrate this first ever World Day of the Glacier, and to highlight the role of climate change in shrinking the glaciers of the Andes, we are delighted to produce a first Deplete and Retreat Policy Brief on the future of the Andean water towers. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/03/poli...
21.03.2025 09:10 — 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
Oblique photos of the snout of Svinafellsjokull taken in 2004 and 2024.
Oblique aerial photo of Skeidararjokull taken in May 2024 showing evidence of glacier margin recession, lowering and proglacial lake formation. The glacier was in contact with land surfaces on the left of the photo in 1996.
I’ve witnessed significant #glacier
recession in SE #Iceland over the past four decades accompanied by major changes in ice marginal processes and landscape. #WorldGlacierDay #InternationalYearofGlacierPreservation #Svínafellsjökull #Skeiðarárjökull
Today is the day, my book "Arctic State Identity: Geography, History, and Geopolitical Relations" is *officially* published! 🙀🙌
Available from @manchesterup.bsky.social:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526153906/
#Arctic #Geopolitics #ArcticIdentity
Photo of the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022 showing the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets (Photo: Andy Russell)
Photo of the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022 showing the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets (Photo: Andy Russell)
Photo of the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022 showing the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets (Photo: Andy Russell)
Photo of the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022 showing the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets (Photo: Andy Russell)
#Jökulhlaup en route through #Skeiðarárjökull from #Grímsvötn subglacial lake.
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Some photos of the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets on the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022.
View of the northern flank of Bárðarbunga from Gæsavatn, July 2018 (Photo: Andy Russell)
View of jökulhlaup channels and deposits on the northern flank of Bárðarbunga, July 2018 (Photo: Andy Russell)
Iceland Meteorological Office have provided a comprehensive summary of the ongoing seismic activity at #Bardarbunga as well as a range of possible scenarios for one of Iceland's biggest subglacial volcanoes.
en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...
Our latest paper on implementing image-based flow gauging techniques in an automated environment is now open for public discussion. We’d love to hear feedback from the hydrological community hess.copernicus.org/preprints/he...
07.01.2025 10:26 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0Great start to the #QRA2025 conference at @newcastleuni.bsky.social with a great line up today covering marine sediments and landforms, terrestrial landforms and archives of change, and keynote lecture by Dr Celia Martin-Puertas. I'll do my best to live skeet the day! Please RT
07.01.2025 09:23 — 👍 34 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 0
It’s been great to spend a bit of time in the field recently. Here we are working with the National Trust to assess the effectiveness of a single intervention to enhance flows across a floodplain
06.01.2025 19:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On this day in 2015 I took an overflight of some of the geomorphological impacts of #StormDesmond on the River Derwent, Cumbria, UK #FieldphotoFriday
27.12.2024 19:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Programme book and full conference schedule now available for the @quaternaryra.bsky.social ADM in Newcastle in January. Final chance to register this week! sites.google.com/view/qraadm2...
09.12.2024 09:49 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
High Force, Teesdale
01.12.2024 23:17 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
#FieldPhotoFriday Flashback to our final year undergraduate Applied Fluvial Geomorphology field trip in October characterising the impacts of #StormAshley on the wandering gravel bed #RiverCoquet #Northumberland.
29.11.2024 12:51 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Celebrating Student Research Scholarships and Expeditions 2024 - Great evening hearing about the findings of this years Newcastle University Physical Geography Expeditions to Greenland and Bhutan.
For my inaugural post on Bluesky I thought I'd dig out some photos of ice-dammed lake drainage and jökulhlaup impacts from my PhD work at the Russell Glacier, west Greenland way back in 1987!
23.11.2024 12:11 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
