Christine Batchelor

Ocean driven retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream following the Last Glacial Maximum - Nature Communications Warm Atlantic Water was a major driver of both initial NEGIS retreat from 21.6 ka BP and the collapse of its ice shelf ~15.2 ka BP. This study demonstrates the key role of ice-ocean interactions in co...

Over the moon that this paper is now out! A lot of work and submitted during maternity leave, but really proud of the final version. Thanks goes to all the co-authors on this.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University!

👉"What controls ice flow across Palmer and Ellsworth Lands, Antarctica?"

This project will use remote sensing datasets to examine the controls on past, present and future ice flow in Antarctica.

More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University!

👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".

This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.

More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Stad Slide: Preconditioning and failure of one of the world's largest megaslides Submarine landslides can generate tsunamis and pose risks to underwater infrastructure, but a lack of direct observations of such slides hinders our understanding of their development and hazard pote...

Buried beneath Storegga is an even larger submarine megaslide - the Stad Slide!

Bridget Tiller’s new paper (the first of her PhD) reveals the vast extent of this slide, discusses its possible causes, and considers whether it could have caused a tsunami 🌊

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sun, sea and Physical Geography! We’re soaking up the rays on our Geography undergrad field trip to County Donegal, Ireland @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Here we share advice and reflections on organising an academic conference.

The winning formula? Good science + good colleagues + good food!

Thank you to everyone who attended the QRA conference this week. Particular thanks to all our panelists and presenters, and to everyone at Newcastle Physical Geography who helped to organise!

Pic is the icebreaker in the calm before the storm…

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QRA ADM 2025 - Registration Registration is now open Registration for the Annual General Meeting is open. Early Bird reduced registration rates are available until 30th November 2024, with a concessionary rate available (for s...

Coming to the QRA conference at Newcastle Uni in January?

Early bird reduced registration is only available until Saturday!

Register now at: sites.google.com/view/qraadm2...

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