Next week our ECR group are starting a #MachineLearning sprint to speed up the development of our new #IceSheet surface mass budget emulation models.
I'm looking for hints, ideas tips and inspiration to help smooth and accelerate the process.
If you're used to working in #Sprint mode, what in your opinion makes it work or otherwise hinders it?
What can I as supervisor do to make it run better?
And how should we celebrate it's conclusion?
Also, should me do an #AMA on the process?
These happenings remind me strongly of a gripping novel I once read, making me shiver and think about my own consuming of resources:
The Sands of Sarasvati (Sarasvatin hiekkaa), in German Die Schmelze (The Melting)
by Risto Isomäki, scientific editor, environmental activist and author.
The novel is about scientists discovering huge lakes and rivers underneath and in the #Greenland #icesheet threatening to break loose.
If one wants to get the feeling how global #ClimateCatastrophe is threatening the earthly world as we know it now this is a strongly recommended read.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35395167-the-sands-of-sarasvati
Glacial Landforms And Rock Types [In Puget Sound Area, Washington State, As Seen With LiDAR]
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https://wa100.dnr.wa.gov/puget-lowland/glacial-landforms <-- shared technical article
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[my old stomping grounds as an engineering geologist, back when the PSLC first came out with its then ‘as if by magic’ LiDAR products around the Puget Sound…]
#geology #landform #geomorphometry #GIS #spatial #mapping #geomorphology #glacial #glacier #LiDAR #engineeringgeology #remotesensing #Seattle #PugetSound #WashingtonState #deposition #rock #sediments #till #water #hydrology #hydrography #melting #outwash #moraine #erratic #striation #boulder #icesheet #kettle #lake #WADNR
If I didn't have 2 papers to (re)submit and two reports due at the ECMWF and ESA, I would write a quick blog post on how interesting it is that our modelled melt over the #Greenland #IceSheet on the @polarportal and the satellite derived melt areas almost but don't quite match, and why that might be...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲!
We’re excited to launch the updated version of 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸 – your gateway to 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁.
On 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸, Danish research institutions share up-to-date monitoring and expert knowledge on the state of the Arctic cryosphere.
𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻:
• Surface conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet and its major outlet glaciers
• Total mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea-level
• Sea ice extent, thickness and volume in the Arctic
• Temperature anomalies of sea ice and the open sea in the Arctic
• Icebergs around Greenland
The portal is powered by the Danish research institutions #DMI, #GEUS, #DTUSpace and #DTUByg and supported by data from #Asiaq - Misissueqqarnerit - Grønlands Forundersøgelser and #PROMICE (https://promice.org/).
Visit the new site: https://polarportal.dk/en/
Study: collapse of #WestAntarctic #IceSheet could be triggered with very little #OceanWarming above present-day, leading to 4 metres of global #SeaLevelRise to play out over hundreds of years.
PIK researcher @juliusgarbe: “We have a narrow window to act.”
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/scientists-say-next-few-years-vital-to-securing-the-future-of-the-west-antarctic-ice-sheet
Incidentally, while this is happening in the US, we have been working quite hard on the @polarportal (well @MartinStendel + out @dmidk colleagues have, I've mainly tried to make helpful comments), the old website is still up giving the latest on #Arctic #seaice #Greenland #icesheet and other datasets, but there's some fancy new stuff on the pipeline.
#StayTuned
New Map Of Landscape Beneath Antarctica Unveiled
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-landscape-beneath-antarctica-unveiled.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Bedmap3 #icebed #surface #thickness #gridded #datasets #Antarctica #raster #model #modeling #landscape #elevation #icesheet #survey #remotesensing #earthobservation #climatechange #warming #climate #melt #melting #seafloor #subglacial #geophysical #survey #topography #geology #bathymetry #topobathy #BritishAntarcticSurvey
@BritishAntarcticSurvey
Glacier Melt Intensifying Freshwater Loss And Accelerating Sea-Level Rise
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https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat/Glacier_melt_intensifying_freshwater_loss_and_accelerating_sea-level_rise <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #GlacierMassBalanceIntercomparison #glacial #glacier #global #cryosphere #regional #freshwater #water #resources #waterresources #watersecurity #sealevel #sealevelrise #SLR #rate #change #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #ice #snow #loss #massloss #greenland #antarctic #icesheet #anthropogenic #climatechange #melt #melting #risk #hazard #geohazard #geology #engineeringgeology #marine #terrestrial #ecosystems #watercycle #masschange #insitu #remotesensing #local #observation #model #modeling #projection
Our @OceanIceEU project is launching a whole series of videos in collaboration with @PolarRES to explain key parts of the #IceSheet and #Climate system. In thi sone Tony Payne Payne explains #TippingPoints for #Greenland + #Antarctica.
And he does it really well! Worth checking out...
As it happens, I'm at Aarhus University today at the Danish Greenland ice sheet seminar, an annual event that goes round different institutes working on the #Greenland #IceSheet in Denmark. If one of these PhDs takes your fancy maybe you'll join us next year?
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/113792504176210706
Ruth_Mottram - New year new PhD project?
In case your career ambitions extend to a PhD in DEnmark, Aarhus University have some really exciting positions open right now, everything from ancient human migrations to atmospheric physics. PhD students in Denmark are employees, and we are always looking for good candidates so it's a great place to study!
Not all are in #Aarhus, some are near Roskilde, just outside #Copenhagen
GEUS have been managing a monitoring network on the #Greenland #iceSheet for many years.
They have now consolidated the US GC-Net with PROMICE weather station data, and the updated SUMUP surface mass budget datasets
Today our annual @polarportal summary of the #Greenland #IceSheet mass budget was published by @carbonbrief.org - I think this may even be the 10th in a row?
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2024 | @MartinStendel
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-the-greenland-ice-sheet-fared-in-2024/
Good morning Fediverse friends, I wrote a thing on our new paper (Glaude et al., 2024, GRL) looking at #Greenland #IceSheet processes and why the devil really is in the details when it comes to ice sheet melt and sea level rise
https://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/11/23/on-the-devil-in-the-climate-model-details/
New paper alert 
Glaude et al 2024 @H2020PROTECT on #Greenland #IceSheet surface melt:
"With identical forcing, Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance from 3 regional climate models shows a two-fold difference by 2100"
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL111902?af=R
I wrote a quick summary about this paper.
Enjoy:
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/11/23/on-the-devil-in-the-climate-model-details/
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/113528932391756884
Ruth_Mottram - New paper alert
Glaude et al 2024 @H2020PROTECT on #Greenland #IceSheet surface melt:
"With identical forcing, Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance from 3 regional climate models shows a two-fold difference by 2100"
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL111902?af=R
New paper alert
Glaude et al 2024 @H2020PROTECT on #Greenland #IceSheet surface melt:
"With identical forcing, Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance from 3 regional climate models shows a two-fold difference by 2100"
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL111902?af=R
Looking forward to welcoming the @OceanIceEU community to #DMIdk today for our annual meeting. I think I'm correct in saying it's the first time we have had such a large gathering of #Antarctic focused #Science here at the institute, though I doubt it will be the last
#SeaLevelRise #Ocean #IceSheet
Whilst I'm getting my Friday afternoon paddle in the fantastically glorious weather in Copenhagen it may be a good moment to remind you that we're hiring for several brilliant jobs at @dmidk just now. Including with me on #IceSheet SMB and regional #Climate modelling in #Greenland and #Antarctica
#Fedijobs #AcademicJobs #GetFediHired #friluftsliv #Copenhagen #Denmark #ScandiLifeStyle #ClimateJobs #ClimateModelling
Quick reminder, some.very cool positions currently open at my employer @dmidk . Not only arewe looking for a new #polar regional climate and #icesheet surface mass balance model developer but also an #ML scientist for forecasting.
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=5001&ProjectId=182511&MediaId=5
Greg Cocks 
