UKRI Future Leaders Fellow @SoGLeeds ǀ Glacial Lakes ǀ Natural hazards ǀ Remote sensing ǀ Himalaya ǀ Nepal ǀ https://xitter.cf/t.co/zk0ttCA0FU
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🚨We’re Hiring: Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Environmental Modelling 🚨
👉Details and Candidate Brief (PDF) at: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.asp…
#MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ClimateScience #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs #PostdocJobs #ResearchCareers #EnvironmentalScience
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Thanks @CScottWatson for your time for guest lecture at Himalayan Cryosphere and Disaster Research Center, Kathmandu University.
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/e…
Join us @wateratleeds 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/e…
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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/scie…
#sikkimflood #GLOF #Permafrost #naturaldisaster #southlhonaklake #teesta #sikkimdisaster2023
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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 😊! @HughSinclair
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Shifting sands threaten flood-mitigation measures nature.com/articles/d41586-0… @HughSinclair @mickymicky06s @SimonMariusMudd
🚨PhD opportunity - Reducing uncertainty in glacial lake outburst flood risk and decision making. Funding and application through UNRISK unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/re…
🚨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 - 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…
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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
🚨GIS / Fieldwork position: Come and work with me as a Research Assistant in High Mountain Environments @SoGLeeds @wateratleeds #GlacialLakes #Himalaya jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
🚨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.
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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/10.1029/2024WR037742
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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/1F…
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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.
2024 September Floods and Landslides:
Situation Report: #1
For PDF link: bipad.gov.np/np/1314
@PM_nepal_ @hello_sarkar @anilpokhrel
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I did a thing , and it was a lot of fun! Volcanologist Answers Volcano Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED youtu.be/qHnMrtk6QTw?si=i6lU…
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The @NERC_COMET near real-time IASI Portal now includes a searchable SO₂ archive 2007-2021 from @oxford_EODG comet.nerc.ac.uk/iasi/COMET_…
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Prof @DuncanQuincey and co-investigators from @AberUni 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…
ALT Professor Quincey surveying the debris-covered tongue of the Khumbu Glacier from the peak of Kala Patthar, Nepal, where his previous project EverDrill measured ice temperatures as deep as 200 metres into the glacier.