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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy

Assiduous dendroglaciologist, moraine lover, wandering geomorphologist, living in the Holocene, climate (and eco-) anxious, @edytem_fr

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Sampling Trient moraine today, exactly 17 yr after the first time... ๐Ÿ”๏ธ๐ŸงŠ This was the first site I worked at in 2008! โณ Pretty dermanding pickaxe work in surreal heat for the season, but nice cookies in the end! ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ’ Before / After picking ๐Ÿฅต

Sampling Trient moraine today, exactly 17 yr after the first time... ๐Ÿ”๏ธ๐ŸงŠ
This was the first site I worked at in 2008! โณ

Pretty dermanding pickaxe work in surreal heat for the season, but nice cookies in the end! ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ’

Before / After picking ๐Ÿฅต
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Another day at the office! ๐Ÿ˜Ž Scrambling the wet Trient moraine is like spending the day (picking) on a steep moving landslide where you can only stand on one foot! โ›๏ธ๐Ÿคช

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Trient Glacier today! ๐Ÿฅฐ Like a little snake retreating into the shelter of protective walls, it's a shadow of its former self! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ“ˆ

Trient Glacier today! ๐Ÿฅฐ

Like a little snake retreating into the shelter of protective walls, it's a shadow of its former self! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ“ˆ
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Crazy heat! ๐Ÿฅต With 30ยฐC at 11:00 am at 1,100 m asl in Chamonix no doubt Bossons Glacier tongue will rapidly continue its collapse ! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

Crazy heat! ๐Ÿฅต

With 30ยฐC at 11:00 am at 1,100 m asl in Chamonix no doubt Bossons Glacier tongue will rapidly continue its collapse ! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ
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From the Alps to Tien Shan, same story for glaciers this year, on track for record losses! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿฅต Little winter snow and already crazy heat! 32ยฐC at 1100 m in Chamonix 16ยฐC at 3600 m in Tien Shan Real-time mass balance ๐Ÿ‘‡ Swiss Alps VAW Glaciology Bordu Gl. Lander Van Tricht

From the Alps to Tien Shan, same story for glaciers this year, on track for record losses! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿฅต

Little winter snow and already crazy heat!

32ยฐC at 1100 m in Chamonix
16ยฐC at 3600 m in Tien Shan

Real-time mass balance ๐Ÿ‘‡
Swiss Alps <a href="/VAW_glaciology/">VAW Glaciology</a> 
Bordu Gl. <a href="/LanderVanTricht/">Lander Van Tricht</a>
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Melt, baby, melt !! ๐Ÿ”ฅ Pretty schocked by current temp. in Chamonix... ๐Ÿฅต Bossons is crying out loud! ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ’ฆ

Melt, baby, melt !! ๐Ÿ”ฅ 

Pretty schocked by current temp. in Chamonix... ๐Ÿฅต

Bossons is crying out loud! ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ’ฆ
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Crazy discharge from Rhรดne Glacier tonight (9:30 pm!) after a scorching day! ๐ŸงŠ๐ŸŒŠ Still 19ยฐC at 1900 m currently! ๐Ÿฅต The Rhรดne Glacier Little Ice Age moraine can be seen at the foreground!

Crazy discharge from Rhรดne Glacier tonight (9:30 pm!) after a scorching day! ๐ŸงŠ๐ŸŒŠ

Still 19ยฐC at 1900 m currently! ๐Ÿฅต

The Rhรดne Glacier Little Ice Age moraine can be seen at the foreground!
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Gauli Glacier this afternoon! ๐ŸงŠ The pic is shot from the crest of the 1980s moraine ! โŒš๏ธ In my lifetime, due to anthropogenic emissions, we have lost that much ice... The scale is hard to grasp, but this is ~ 1.5 km

Gauli Glacier this afternoon! ๐ŸงŠ

The pic is shot from the crest of the 1980s moraine ! โŒš๏ธ

In my lifetime, due to anthropogenic emissions, we have lost that much ice...

The scale is hard to grasp, but this is ~ 1.5 km
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Gauli Glacier this afternoon! โ„๏ธ Now far far above the lake! ๐Ÿ“ˆ If you want to learn more about this glacier and a plane crash in the 1940s, check this out! tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/42โ€ฆ

Gauli Glacier this afternoon! โ„๏ธ

Now far far above the lake!  ๐Ÿ“ˆ

If you want to learn more about this glacier and a plane crash in the 1940s, check this out!
tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/42โ€ฆ
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Stone pine sapling found at ~2750 m asl above Fenรชtre d'Arpette in front of Trient Glacier by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social today! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ“ˆ

Stone pine sapling found at ~2750 m asl above Fenรชtre d'Arpette in front of Trient Glacier by @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social today! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ“ˆ
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Bossons Glacier 1910 | 2024 The most beautiful glacier in the Alps as seen from its left margin ๐Ÿฅฐ Soon no more ice to see from this viewpoint! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ“ˆ With the appearance of bedrock in the icefall, the front will rise several hundred metres in one go! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ ๐Ÿ“ท Glacionaut ๐Ÿ™

Bossons Glacier
1910 | 2024

The most beautiful glacier in the Alps as seen from its left margin ๐Ÿฅฐ

Soon no more ice to see from this viewpoint! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ“ˆ 

With the appearance of bedrock in the icefall, the front will rise several hundred metres in one go! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

๐Ÿ“ท <a href="/glacionaut/">Glacionaut</a> ๐Ÿ™
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Another take regarding the Blatten event and its comparison with the 1987 Val Pola event! ๐Ÿ”๏ธ The latter involved neither glacier nor permafrost, but represented a turning point in the perception and management of risks in the Alps ๐ŸŒŠ (in italian!) nimbus.it/ghiacciai/2025โ€ฆ

Another take regarding the Blatten event and its comparison with the 1987 Val Pola event! ๐Ÿ”๏ธ

The latter involved neither glacier nor permafrost, but represented a turning point in the perception and management of risks in the Alps ๐ŸŒŠ
(in italian!)
nimbus.it/ghiacciai/2025โ€ฆ
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The Fall of a Glacier! ๐Ÿ”๏ธ๐ŸงŠ๐ŸŒŠ BEFORE (May 23) | AFTER (May 29) Animation showing the Birch Glacier landslide in Blatten (CH) based on LiDAR surveys ๐Ÿš Data: Sixense Helimap/Terradata (The upper limit is the edge of the 3D model, not actual change)