Dr Chris Stringer 🏔️

I'm just getting onto the last leg of my journey home from James Ross Island, Antarctica and I'm trying to slowly process the last 3 months. It was an honour to join the Czech Antarctic expedition at Mendel Base and an incredible experience to collect data in Antarctica 😁🐧🇨🇿🇦🇶

I am delighted to share that our paper, exploring land cover change in Antarctica, has been awarded the Editors' Choice Award by @arctic_alpine

This award recognises influential work, contributing to our understanding cold environments

Read more here: lnkd.in/eJiBggUm

🐧 Antarctic PhD Opportunity 🐧

We are advertising for a PhD position based at the University of Leeds. This is a NERC funded opportunity through YES•DTN.

"Proglacial landscape evolution across the Antarctic Peninsula in a warming climate"

yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/progl…

Our latest study is now published in J. Glac:

"Accelerated glacier changes on the James Ross Archipelago, Antarctica, from 2010 to 2023"

🧊Recent warming has led to enhanced rates of melt.

We also observe:

⏩Surging
🏔️Disconnection

Find out more👇

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I am delighted to see our latest study published in Journal of Maps:

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The study, led by Göksu Uslular, describes the landscape of key proglacial sites on Nelson Island, Antarctica - mapped using fieldwork, drone imagery, and a 360 degree imagery 🏔️🐧