Lecturer in Physical Geography @ Leeds Beckett Uni 🗺️ | Interested in Antarctica, glaciers, hydrology, and GIS 🏔️
Leeds, England
Joined September 2020
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Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
From snow cover to bare glacier ice in two weeks at Great Aletsch Glacier!
Snow depletion was never so early recently, not even in the extreme year 2022! Virtually snow-free ice in May below 2200 m results in early onset of ice loss and enhanced albedo feedback
@glamos_ch
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
After one full year of review process, this feels very satisfying. The paper will demonstrate how <1% of basin area can transfer signals 1000s of km downstream in case of really really large mass-wasting events.
Can't wait to see this online and share with all of you!
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
💫 Mike's 50th was one to remember! #osfc
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Marinelli Glacier (Cordillera Darwin)
1913 | 2024
Another mind-boggling comparison! 🧊🔥
Marinelli Gl. has lost >15 km during this period! 😲
Mte Shipton (2568 m) at the background is highest peak in CD 🏔️
📷 1913: pano made of 5 pics by Alberto de Agostini
📽️ 2024: C. Donoso
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Like pulling the plug of a bathtub: an incredible mass of #glacier ice disappearing at Griesgletscher (🇨🇭/🇮🇹) in one century.
It felt emotional to visit the exact same spot @swisstopo cartographers chose in 1919. The view was so different.
Simply unbelievable!!
@VAW_glaciology
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Our latest study is now published in J. Glac:
"Accelerated glacier changes on the James Ross Archipelago, Antarctica, from 2010 to 2023"
🧊Recent warming has led to enhanced rates of melt.
We also observe:
⏩Surging
🏔️Disconnection
Find out more👇
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Did you know that already more than 1000 glaciers have disappeared in Switzerland over the last 50 years as a consequence of human-caused climate change?
One of those is Pizolgletscher which I visited today. Always a saddening yet impressive sight...
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
The Bossons Glacier as we will never see it again... 😰
It was exactly 10 years ago! ⏳
Miss you already.
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
The tongue of Rhone #Glacier ten days after my last visit. Can you guess how much ice melted away? 1️⃣ meter in terms of thickness! 1️⃣0️⃣ days... And that's just the beginning of the summer season.
We know the times are bad for the ice, but still it is hard to accept these numbers!
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Delighted to see our latest paper published in @arctic_alpine
I started on this research on the first day of my PhD (back in 2020!)
It explores the land cover and land cover changes of some key proglacial areas of the Antarctic Peninsula Region 🇦🇶🛰️
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
#newarticle by Stringer (@sedsstringer) et al. offers a new data set of land cover of major deglaciated sites in West Antarctica, highlighting a spatial pattern where northern sites have more vegetation & active sediments and have changed more rapidly: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.202…
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Floods and landslides often dominate headlines, but their lasting impact flows beneath the surface—in the sediment carried by rivers. Dr Abhishek Dixit is studying how the Ganga and Brahmaputra are responding, and may continue to respond, to rising climate-driven events.
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Featured in an excellent series by IIT Gandhinagar. We explore sediment dynamics in the two large Himalayan river system-Ganga and Brahmaputra. Both combined, carry the largest amount of sediments in the world.
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink | @AyeshaTandon with comment from Jan Kavan, Simon Cook
Read here: buff.ly/5o2FI7j
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Born #OnThisDay in 1880, Captain Lawrence Oates made the ultimate sacrifice on the day of his birth in 1912, by stepping out of his tent into a blizzard never to be seen again. Oates was an integral part of Scott's Polar Party, during the British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition 1910-1913, and made a brave attempt to preserve enough supplies for Scott, Wilson and Bowers during their return from the South Pole.
Oates was severely frostbitten, weakened and suffering from scurvy. Believing he was slowing the other men down, Oates died so they could have a chance at living. As he left the tent, Oates's famous last words are recorded as "I'm just going outside and may be some time..."
#OTD #inspire #explore #discover #conserve #Antarctica
ALT 📸 Lawrence Oates, Alexander Turnbull Library
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
MiMapper is now live!
ee-multihazardmapping.projec…
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences: aber.ac.uk/en/dges
Department of Research, Business & Innovation: aber.ac.uk/mimapper
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Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Excited to go through the two year publication process to write academically about this critically urgent issue
Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️ retweeted
Research and Writing Plan:
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4) Somehow publish something