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Free Talk about teaching glaciers and glaciation in schools: Seds Online, 14th July

Posted on 16/06/2020 / by Bethan Davies / tagged blogging, resource

AntarcticGlaciers.org: a tool for teaching Glaciers and Glaciation to high school and college students”. Dr Bethan Davies – Royal Holloway University of London 4 PM LONDON, Tuesday 14th July 2020 Information here: https://sedsonline.com/events/ . You must register (for free) with Seds Online to watch the webinar. The link will be available on the website 10 […]

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Best practice in delivering online learning

Posted on 29/04/2020 / by Bethan Davies / tagged lecturing

The full implications of Covid-19 are still unknown, but it seems that it will be with us for a long while yet. Therefore, many university lecturers will be moving to online learning, some for the first time. I thought that it might be useful to compile some resources and best-practice suggestions to help us. Here

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The Lectureship Interview

Posted on 19/02/2020 / by Bethan Davies / tagged careers, lecturing

If you’re preparing for an interview at a university for a lectureship, good luck to you! The UK system tends to involve a presentation, often to the whole department, and then a panel interview with a few senior members of staff. This can be very daunting, but it does get easier with practice. I’ve attended

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What is the ice volume of Thwaites Glacier?

Posted on 31/01/2020 / by Bethan Davies / tagged Ice sheets, ice stream, Thwaites Glacier, WAIS

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is currently the focus of a major scientific campaign. Why is Thwaites Glacier of so much interest, however? How much ice is there, and how much would sea levels rise if it all melted? Thwaites Glacier is roughly the size of UK (176 x103 km2). The glacier terminus is nearly

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The world’s mountain ‘water towers’ are melting, putting 1.9 billion people at risk

Posted on 08/01/2020 / by Bethan Davies / tagged glacier recession, water resource

Bethan Davies, Royal Holloway The year 2019 concludes a decade of exceptional heat, and is on track to be the second or third warmest year on record. While the global average temperature teeters on 1.1°C above the pre-industrial record, the world’s glaciers are in stark retreat. In high mountain areas, the steady trickle of melting

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Curry Fund from the Geologists’ Association

Posted on 11/03/2019 / by Bethan Davies

We are delighted to announce that AntarcticGlaciers.org has been awarded a grant from the Curry Fund of the Geologists’ Association. This will support further website development, and help bring the website further into line with the new UK A-Level curriculum.

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Book review: The Continent of Antarctica (Julian Dowdeswell and Michael Hambrey, Papadakis, 2018)

Posted on 26/11/2018 / by Bethan Davies

Antarctica was the last continent to be discovered and explored, and is sensitive and vulnerable to climate change. It is relevant to all of us, since it can influence ocean currents and sea levels. The history of the continent, both geological and human, is fascinating, with heroic attempts to map and explore the continent. In

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Improvements to AntarcticGlaciers.org

Posted on 16/11/2018 / by Bethan Davies / tagged blogging, outreach, Post-16, resource

Here at AntarcticGlaciers.org we have been busy making many updates to the website. We are particularly keen to update the website to bring it in to line with the reformed A-Level syllabus, and also to update and rewrite some of the older content, and improve the website as a resource to promote public understanding of

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Funding from British Society for Geomorphology

Posted on 16/11/2018 / by Bethan Davies

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded an Outreach Grant by the British Society for Geomorphology. These funds will be used to support our attendance and an exhibit at the Geographical Association Annual Conference in April 2019, called “Celebrating Geography”. We hope to use this opportunity to both promote our website but also

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Choosing the future of Antarctica

Posted on 19/07/2018 / by Jacob Bendle / tagged antarctica, Climate change, Ice shelves, Sea level rise, WAIS

In a new article in the journal Nature, Stephen Rintoul and colleagues present two very different visions of Antarctica’s future, from the perspective of an observer looking back from 2070. In one vision, humanity continues to exploit Earth’s natural resources (such as fossils fuels) and does little to protect the environment, and in the other,

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