Georgia Melodie Hole

Group photo of PasttoFuture project members at the General Assembly in Utrecht, November 2025.

Team Globorotalia - winners of the meeting scavenger hunt

Utrecht view

View of the Domtoren, Utrecht

Enjoyed reconnecting with the many members of @horizoneu.bsky.social project #P2F (Past to Future: Towards Fully Paleo-Informed Future #Climate Projections) in Utrecht last week...including winning the scavenger hunt and getting the secret word - Globorotalia! #foraminifera
#paleoclimate #H2020

Max Kotokak Sr. presenting at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, alongside Helen Wheeler, Georgia Melodie Hole, Joseph Culp, Ben DeVries, Callum Pearce and Kevin Arey. The CINUK Annual Science Meeting, November 2023.

Community researcher Camellia Gray, community researcher and wildlife monitor Myles Dillon, Georgia Melodie Hole on the road in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region visiting beaver-impacted sites

Drone surveys of sites in collaboration with the Imaryuk Monitors. Featuring: George Harrison, Kevin Arey, Georgia Melodie Hole, Max Kotokak Sr. Photo by Max Kotokak Sr.

Max Kotokak Sr. punting in Cambridge with BARIN UK PI Helen Wheeler, Callum Pearce and Georgia Melodie Hole.

The show also does a great job of highlighting the importance of coproduction of knowledge and engagement with impacted Inuit communities, including when Max Kotokak Sr and Kevin Arey came to the UK to present the Imaryuk Monitoring Programme and its links with the BARIN beaver project.

Cosmic dust reveals dynamic shifts in central Arctic sea-ice coverage over the past 30,000 years Arctic sea-ice loss affects biological productivity, sustenance in coastal communities, and geopolitics. Forecasting these impacts requires mechanistic understanding of how Arctic sea ice responds to ...

Huge paper for the Arctic Ocean published today in @science.org - a new 30,000 year history of Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover reconstructed from the accumulation of cosmic dust-derived helium-3! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/n)

That's great, thank you! I should have a paper coming out soon on my part of the work too 🤞🏼🤞🏼

Stills from Beavers from Above, with Georgia Melodie Hole, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, Max Kotokak Sr and Kevin Arey

To learn a bit more about beavers in the Arctic tundra, and my work on the @ukri.org CINUK project, check out the 'Beavers from Above' episode of CBC's The Nature of Things! 🦫

gem.cbc.ca/the-nature-o...

Premiering tonight on CBC TV at 8 p.m., 8:30NT

@geolsoc.bsky.social @geoscientistmag.bsky.social

#geoscience #climate #climatechange #bookreview #scicomm #sciencecommunication

The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life - GEOSCIENTIST Donald Prothero takes readers on a sweeping 4.5-billion-year journey that reveals the intimate ties between climate and life.

My review of ‘The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries’ by Donald Prothero has been published in The Geological Society's Geoscientist magazine. The book is a sweeping exploration of Earth’s 4.5Ga climatic journey and its role in shaping life.

Learn more: geoscientist.online/sections/boo...

🚨Calling all U.K. Arctic terrestrial scientists.

"UK Arctic terrestrial science strengths and priorities workshop"
to discuss and then produce a prospectus outlining the UK’s “Strengths & Priorities” in Arctic terrestrial research.

Info and registration link here 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1HV0c...

Great to see the result of the workshop at @noc.ac.uk earlier this year on the contribution of Arctic Ocean science to the International Polar Year 2032/33.

The many uses of #driftwood: the first large-scale mapping of Arctic coastlines. #AWI Press release for Carl‘s paper using AI to map driftwood abundance along the North American arctic coast with Planet satellite imagery. www.awi.de/en/about-us/...

Interesting! Will this approach be expanded to other Arctic regions?

Out of the woods: Driftwood insights into Holocene pan‐Arctic sea ice dynamics Arctic driftwood transport and deposition is determined by sea ice and surface current dynamics; making it a robust proxy for Holocene sea ice reconstructions The first pan-Arctic collation of Holo...

Important to know for sea ice reconstructions!

Arctic driftwood transport and deposition is determined by sea ice and surface current dynamics; making it a robust proxy for Holocene sea ice reconstructions.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I was today years old when I learned that Picasso overlapped in time with both Charles Darwin and Eminem. True fact.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Myself presenting a poster on 'Sea ice reconstruction and mapping for low and high CO2 climates'. This work is part of the EU Horizon project P2F, that aims to make optimal use of past climatic information to better understand Earth's response to forcings.

Polar beers event at the UK Arctic Science Conference, with a talk on creative science communication by Dr Amy MacFarlane.

Wylam Brewery, host venue, Newcastle.

The UK Arctic Science Conference.

Always fun to join another UK Arctic Science Conference, this time at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, presenting initial stages of palaeo sea ice reconstruction, synthesis and mapping, within the @horizoneu.bsky.social project Past2Future - towards fully palaeo-informed climate projections.

Look forward to reading this!

Thank you all for attending BOGS 2025! We are a great community, and we look forward to many future successful meetings.

Thank you so much! 🙏🏼

😍🌾🏞️

I spent the last two summers sampling alder and willow shrubs in the tundra, so I do miss those landscapes!

Screenshot for the NSIDC Sea Ice Index, which says "This data set was recently downgraded to a “Basic” Level of Service. Learn more about what this means for users here" and "The Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing and delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025. The SSMIS data are used as input for this NSIDC-produced data set, which will therefore stop processing no later than 30 June 2025. Please contact NSIDC User Services if you have questions."

The poor "Sea Ice Index" nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 😢

See thread for more on this tragic data loss: bsky.app/profile/zack...

Participants of the workshop on the contribution of UK Arctic Ocean science to the International Polar Year 32/33, hosted at the National Oceanography Centre. Photo credit: NOC.

Last week I was at @noc.ac.uk for the first time since 2012(!) for a workshop on the contribution of Arctic Ocean science to the International Polar Year 2032/33. A great opportunity to help shape priorities for future research with a cross-section of polar ocean experts.

Thank you!

Image of cottongrass at dawn on the Arctic Ocean coastline in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

My photo of cotton grass at dawn on the Arctic Ocean coastline won the Canadian Permafrost Association photo competition!

Thank you to everyone who voted :)

www.instagram.com/p/DJB8SQqxmz...

Very cool 🤩

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

Kick off meeting in Utrecht for the Past to Future project - towards fully palaeo-informed future climate protections.

A great kick off in Utrecht to my role within the new #HorizonEU #Past2Future project, working towards fully palaeo-informed future climate projections.
I'm joining @durham-university.bsky.social as a research associate, focusing on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice reconstruction.

World's sea-ice falls to record low The world's frozen oceans keep the planet cool, but they currently have less ice than ever recorded before.

Sea ice in the Arctic and around Antarctica cool our climate, drive ocean circulation across the planet, and provide a unique habitat for polar ecosystems.

Sea ice amounts have now fallen to their lowest since we started measuring them. This is not good.

🌊🥼❄️🧪

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

Ancient Tree Rings Hold Clues to Volcanic Cooling Events In the frigid reaches of northern Norway, a curious phenomenon in tree rings is helping scientists uncover the climatic impact of distant volcanic eruptions from over a century ago. Researchers have discovered that unusually cold summers leave behind distinctive blue-tinted rings in trees and shrubs, providing a natural archive of historical temperature drops. The study, published in Frontiers in Plant Science…

Ancient Tree Rings Hold Clues to Volcanic Cooling Events

In the frigid reaches of northern Norway, a curious phenomenon in tree rings is helping scientists uncover the climatic impact of distant volcanic eruptions from over a century ago. Researchers have discovered that unusually cold summers…

Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake - Nature Climate Change How the carbon stocks of the Arctic–Boreal Zone change with warming is not well understood. Here the authors show that wildfires and large regional differences in net carbon fluxes offset the overall ...

Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake
www.nature.com/articles/s41...