Ruth MottramSep 6, 2024

At #EPSW24 this week several participants went for a lunchtime swim during the meeting as the conference hall is right by the harbour and the number of bathers and kayakers paddling past has just been too tempting. .
(And it's been extremely warm every day)

https://fediscience.org/@gwagner/113090235297249464

Gernot Wagner (@[email protected])

The simplest of checks whether your city has gotten the balance right between work & play: can you swim in its river/lake? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/travel/europe-swimmable-cities.html #sustainability #climate

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Ruth MottramSep 6, 2024
My #DMIdk colleague Kjeld Qvistgaard of the #Ice service talking on stage at #EPSW24 on the importance of high quality accessible products. People don't actually care I'd you use #AI to make the ice charts or not, as long as they get easy access to high quality information!
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Ruth MottramSep 6, 2024

Yesterday at #EPSW24, three projects I'm involved with ( @PolarRES @H2020PROTECT @OceanIceEU ) held a joint session, highlighting some of our results. Some highlights to follow

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Ruth MottramSep 4, 2024
The southern ocean is home to some unique and special species...
@PolarRES scientist Nadine Johnston is representing the biologists in #AntarcticaInSync
#EPSW24
Ruth MottramSep 4, 2024

Also representibg @OceanIceEU, Tore Hatteman on subshelf melting at #AntarcticaInSync

It is indeed an embarrassing travesty for the #IceSheet community that we cannot rule out 5m.of #SeaLevelRise by 2150 (though most feel it's unlikely)

#EPSW24

Ruth MottramSep 4, 2024
It's a glorious sunny day in Copenhagen for #EPSW24 - but we're spending all the time inside where @oceanice_eu's very own Andrew Meijers is presenting on the importance of the Southern Ocean in the #AntarcticaInSync session....
Ruth MottramSep 4, 2024

An emphasis from @iceadvice on #climate #TippingPoints: 5 of them appear in the Polar regions.

#EPSW24

Ruth MottramSep 4, 2024

A great overview on the state of knowledge about paleoclimate and ice sheets from Peter Koehler. The key reference is Clark et al 2024

#EPSW24

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1908

Ruth MottramSep 4, 2024
The world's small #glaciers are more accessible and familiar to most people than the big ice sheets, even if the latter are more important for #SeaLevelRise. GLAMBIE is a new community estimate on the state of the world's glacier. Guess the result is not a surprise. #EPSW24
Ruth MottramSep 4, 2024

A colleague many years ago produced a geothermal heat flux map of Greenland and Antarctica. It was one of the first and certainly flawed, but it's still used as we have so few alternatives.

She very sadly died (far too young after a long illness and with quite young children too) last year + I think about her every time her map is used in this #EPSW24 session.

Our work echoes long, if we're lucky.