Geophysics Tübingen

The #Diversitorium task force @aschweiger.bsky.social, @bossdorf.bsky.social, @michaeladippold.bsky.social, K.Tielboerger & Y.Oelmann visited Ihinger Hof field site @unihohenheim.bsky.social for the first time!
SO EXCITED to launch our key #TERRA experiment on #geodiversity manipulation: stay tuned!

🇦🇶 Antarctica’s coastal zone is changing fast & it matters globally. A new #AntarcticRINGS review paper maps what we know, what we don’t & why it matters for sea-level rise. 🌊

Explore fresh insights, a Quantarctica-friendly data package & all figures as downloadable slides: scar.org/scar-news/cr...

Check out this time-lapse video of waves eroding an ice front from an experiment conducted in our cryogenic wave tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The tank is housed in a walk-in freezer, and the waves are precisely controlled. This video captures about an hour of wave erosion.

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Together with #AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, we have an exciting position to fill: The AIMS - Tübingen Junior Research Chair in Machine Learning for Science! 1/2

Read the whole story agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Moreover, the firn also exhibits a vertical anisotropy. We were surprised about how strong that signal was

Common-midpoint radar polarimetry by @oraschewski.bsky.social in Geophysical Research Letters. This can be a promising method to observationally constrain the anisotropic ice rheology in the field

If you're interested in Glacial Geology/Geomorphology consider submitting an abstract to our GSA session "T182. Recent Advances in Glacial Geology, Geomorphology, and Chronology": Deadline for abstract submission is August 5. @geosociety.bsky.social.

Nice demonstration of how-to-use ice rises as a mini analogue of ice sheets!

Second, we can use this calibrated model to learn more about the anisotropic rheology of ice across various flow regimes (doi.org/10.1017/jog....)

Double progress in ice-rise modeling by @clarahenry.bsky.social. First we are now able to model ice rises and surrounding ice shelves in 3D and link it with radar stratigraphy to obtain area-wide age-depth estimates ( doi.org/10.1029/2024...)

Fabric modelling:
doi.org/10.1017/jog....

Predicting the Three‐Dimensional Stratigraphy of an Ice Rise We develop a three-dimensional model to simulate the age distribution of an ice rise and the surrounding ice We compare the modeled stratigraphy of an ice rise with the stratigraphy inferred from...

Two new publications on 3D models of ice rises with @geophys-tuebingen.bsky.social, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and @bas.ac.uk

Stratigraphy modelling:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Happy to announce that #TERRA was selected as a #ClusterOfExcellence by @dfg.de. K. Rehfeld (@past2futureclimate.bsky.social‬), O. Cirpka & myself express greatest thanks to @unituebingen.bsky.social‬, our mock-reviewers & the entire TERRA-team for the relentless support. Let's start the endevour!

From Jan 2026, @unituebingen.bsky.social will host a new @dfg.de cluster of excellence #TERRA to study geosphere-biosphere interactions, together with Uni Hohenheim and Senckenberg. There will be many opportunities, incl. several professorships. Stay tuned, and follow this account!

Very nice 100 km relay race st @unituebingen.bsky.social with a mixed team of geophysics, geology and climate sciences finishing in the top ten ! Nice to see so many teams including @ml4science.bsky.social

Stunning 18th place in finish! @ml4science.bsky.social

One key finding is that many pinning points are surrounded by local meteoric only, hence these buttressing relevant areas are particularly sensitive to atmospheric/oceanographic changes

Mapping the Composition of Antarctic Ice Shelves as a Metric for Their Susceptibility to Future Climate Change We categorize Antarctic ice shelves into two parts: local meteoric ice and continental meteoric ice Buttressed ice shelves composed primarily of local meteoric ice are identified as being particu...

New paper in Geophysical Research Letters led by Vjeran Višnjević mapping out ice shelf areas which are maintained by local precipitation only doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Have I been to Antarctica? No. But my colleagues have, and we can learn a lot from the data they collected! Really happy to share that our work is now published!

Interdisciplinary collaborations can lead to really cool science.

This study led by @gmoss13.bsky.social is a great example. Here, we show how simulation-based inference helps to infer more information from radar stratigraphy than possible before: Both, surface accumulation and basal melt rates.

This work was enabled and funded by an innovation project of @ml4science.bsky.social

Congrats to @gmoss13.bsky.social, @coschroeder.bsky.social, @jakhmack.bsky.social , together with our great collaborators Vjeran Višnjević, Olaf Eisen, @oraschewski.bsky.social‬, Reinhard Drews. Thank you to @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social and @awi.de for marking this work possible.

If you’re interested to learn more, check out the paper and code, or get in touch with @gmoss13.bsky.social

Code: github.com/mackelab/sbi...
Paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We obtain posterior distributions over ice accumulation and melting rates for Ekström Ice Shelf over the past hundreds of years. This allows us to make quantitative statements about the history of the atmospheric and oceanic conditions.

Die @unituebingen feiert Erfolg im Exzellencluster-Wettbewerb 🎉Freude und Jubel bei der Pressekonferenz zur Entscheidung der DFG am 22.05.25 mit gut 200 Gästen. Weitere Infos und Fotos gibt es online 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... @cmfi.bsky.social @ml4science.bsky.social

Ice Rises and Ice Anisotropy in 3D by @clarahenry.bsky.social in doi.org/10.1017/jog..... This is another step forward for including a more nuanced ice rheology in ice-flow models.

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Great news! Our March SBI hackathon in Tübingen was a huge success, with 40+ participants (30 onsite!). Expect significant updates soon: awesome new features & a revamped documentation you'll love! Huge thanks to our amazing SBI community! Release details coming soon. 🥁 🎉

For questions and feedback contact @gmoss13.bsky.social

This is a new way to infer the ice-ocean/ice-atmosphere interactions over the last centuries that we can hopefully transfer to other ice shelves as well