COMET are hiring a Communications Officer! Earth and Environment at Leeds The role is focused on connecting with and communicating our research activities to policymakers, the wider scientific community, industry, space agencies and other key stakeholders. Apply here 👇 tinyurl.com/mpze224u

Prof Duncan Quincey and co-investigators from Aberystwyth University will record the temperatures of the upper reaches of the Khumbu Glacier, half a kilometre above Everest base camp. The experiments will be challenging, physically and logistically. Read more 👇 environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5…

The UK COMET near real-time IASI Portal now includes a searchable SO₂ archive 2007-2021 from Earth Observation Data Group comet.nerc.ac.uk/iasi/COMET_IAS…

I did a thing , and it was a lot of fun! Volcanologist Answers Volcano Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED youtu.be/qHnMrtk6QTw?si…

Sept 27, 2024, #Kathmandu recorded its highest historic rainfall in 54 yrs, more in south up to 323 mm in just 24 hrs. The #extreme #climate with urban expansion by #floodplain #encroachment , resulted in significant losses and highlighted #urgent need for future precautions.

We are organizing a workshop "HIMTRAIN: HImalayan glacier Monitoring and TRAIning" at IIT Indore (11-15 November). Please see the details below. The candidates can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Pleased to share our recent paper highlighting the need to incorporate #SedimentTransport and extreme floods in designing river embankments & urban expansion in floodplains in the context of #RapidUrbanization #RiverEncroachment #MiningActivies in #Nakkhu doi.org/10.1029/2024WR…

🚨For reasons beyond my control, I felt obliged to immediately close the RA position to external applications. I thank everyone for their applications, and I will be in touch.

British transplant surgeon Professor Nizam Mamode's harrowing testimony to the Select Committee about Israel’s quadcopters shooting at civilians and children in Gaza who were already injured and on the ground...after they had just been bombed. Pls watch

🚨 PhD opportunity - The future of Himalayan glacial lakes: uncovering subsurface features and instabilities with fieldwork and remote sensing observations. Funding and application through YES DTN yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the-f…

🚨PhD opportunity - Interactions between glacier loss, proglacial lake development and downstream river ecosystems. Funding and application through YES DTN yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/inter…

🚨PhD opportunity - Reducing uncertainty in glacial lake outburst flood risk and decision making. Funding and application through UNRISK unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/reduc…

Shifting sands threaten flood-mitigation measures nature.com/articles/d4158… Hugh Sinclair Mikael Attal Simon Marius Mudd

If you’re attending #AGU24, we invite you to visit our poster, EP41C-1213: Impact of Varying Embanked Channel Widths on Flood Risk in the WRR, Nepal. Join us in Hall B-C during the poster session from 8:30-12:30 today and we’d greatly appreciate your feedback 😊! Hugh Sinclair

Glad to share our paper published in the journal “Science” titled “The Sikkim flood of October 2023: Drivers, causes and impacts of a multihazard cascade.” science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #sikkimflood #GLOF #Permafrost #naturaldisaster #southlhonaklake #teesta #sikkimdisaster2023

Join us water@leeds talking about glaciology, remote sensing, hydrology, geomorphology, hazards, and ecology for World Day for Glacier and World Water Day. 21 March 14:00-15:30 CET. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3ed65f2f…

Join us @wateratleedstalking about glaciology, remote sensing, hydrology, geomorphology, hazards, and ecology for World Day for Glacier and World Water Day. 21 March 13:00-14:30 GMT. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3ed65f2f…

Thanks Scott Watson for your time for guest lecture at Himalayan Cryosphere and Disaster Research Center, Kathmandu University.