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Sanna Piilo - University of Helsinki.
Thursday 19 March 2026, 16:00-17:00
Glaciology and Glacial Geology - Department of Geography
Seminars within the Glaciology and Glacial Geology research group of the Department of Geography.
Contact: Geography/SPRI Webmaster ; Poul Christoffersen ; Tom Chudley ; Frazer Christie
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Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Ongoing Regime Shifts in Arctic and Subarctic Peatlands: A Palaeoecological Perspective
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Against the rising tide: polar climate change and comms in the misinformation era
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Lakes on the ice - modelling Antarctica's surface hydrology
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Arctic Subsurface Ocean Change under the Climate Crisis: Long-Term CPIES Observations in the Chukchi Sea
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Ice structure, brine infiltration, and firn saturation from field observations on three Antarctic ice shelves
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Improving the synchronization of climate records using probabilistic methods and cosmogenic radionuclides
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The martian cryosphere: (some of) what we know, (some of) what we don't know, and (some of) how we might get (some) more answers…
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Chasing Cracks on an Antarctic Ice Shelf
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Snow on the Edge: Marginal Snowpacks and Other Mediterranean Treasures
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Crusing the South Shetland by Sail: In Search of Archaeology and Anything Green
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Just Ice For All: Global Ice-Thickness Inversions and Committed Ice Loss to 2050
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
West Antarctic Ice Sheet readvance in the Holocene
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Antarctic Atmospheric Rivers in the Present and Future Climates
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The Greenland Inland Ice Sheet and its watery margins: sediments and freshwater fluxes
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Large herbivore ecology in Greenland - the short(est) path (ever) to bring research evidence into policy
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Meltwater feedbacks on ice-sheet dynamics
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Linking individual ecological dynamics to the Greening of the Arctic: remote sensing as hero, villain, and redeemer
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Confined strain response to Greenland lake drainages sets inland hydro-fracture bound
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Exploring Earth's snowy regions with satellites and data science
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Exploring Earth's snowy regions with satellites and data science
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Adventures in Antarctica: Travelogue ad Fieldwork from Thwaites Glacier
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Inuit pastoralism in South Greenland: Navigating the spectrum from wild to domestic herds in an era of rapid Arctic change
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The flow pattern evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet reconstructed from high-resolution mapping of subglacial bedforms.
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Progress towards understanding the glacier debris cover anomaly in High Mountain Asia
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Insights from mapping Greenland’s supraglacial lakes at unprecedented temporal and spatial scales
⚠️ CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The influence of Arctic Fog on Glaciers
⚠️ THIS TALK IS CANCELLED
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Overview of the RESPONDER project
⚠️ THIS TALK IS CANCELLED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary
⚠️ This talk is by the Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography Seminar Series - NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME, DATE & VENUE
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Characteristics and changes of glaciers, rock glaciers and glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia since the 1960s
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Subglacial landscapes: Tunnel valleys in the central and northern North Sea
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Title to be confirmed
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The Weddell Sea, Antarctica: modern science and the search for Shackleton’s Endurance
⚠️ Note unusual time and venue
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Integrating Photogrammetry and Computer Vision into the study of Glacier Change
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
TBC
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia
⚠️ THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Concentrated, “pulsed” axial glacier flow: structural glaciological evidence from Kvíárjökull in SE Iceland
⚠️ THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Modelling seasonal acceleration of land terminating sectors of the Greenland Ice Sheet margin
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Surface meltwater on the polar ice sheets under a changing climate
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Geophysical observations on Larsen C Ice Shelf: characterising stability after Iceberg A68
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Remote sensing of melt and fracture on Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
What lies beneath: a radio-glaciological study of Greenland.
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Controls on the rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Submarine canyons in polar and temperate margins: shaping mechanisms and long-term evolution
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Ice shelf-ocean interactions: self-organisation and instability
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Greenland Ice Sheet motion, ice-ocean interactions, and other ambitions to understand the cryosphere
⚠️ NOTE!!! UNUSUAL DAY (TUE) AND TIME (1-2 pm)
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Linking ice-cliff and rock-slope failures
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
A journey into Erebus volcano, Antarctica
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
High-resolution modelling of polar climates using the regional climate model RACMO2.3
⚠️ NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND ROOM
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Modelling ice-ocean interaction at Greenland’s tidewater glaciers
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Ice cores: development of time scales and some applications
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Evidence for, and implications of, a grounded ice sheet in the Central North Sea during the Pleistocene
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Marine terminating glaciers within Elmer/Ice: model and applications
⚠️ NOTE: THIS TALK IS ON A THURSDAY
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Seismic survey considerations in glaciology
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The last ten years of glacier observation in the Karakoram
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Controls on the stability of Greenland’s tidewater glaciers: the impact of runoff on fjord circulation and termini melt rates
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Assessing the vulnerability of the Weddell Sea sector of West Antarctic Ice Sheet to future changes
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Frequency and triggers of huge underwater landslides - and their relationship to climate change and sediment delivery from ice streams
⚠️ NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 1-2 PM
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Supraglacial lake drainage and ice flow acceleration in Greenland
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The Importance to Solar-Terrestrial Physics of Amundsen’s and Scott’s Conjugate Observations of the Earth’s Magnetic Field
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The martian Cryosphere: there’s more ice than we thought!
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The pressure melting point of ice and Jakobshavn Isbrae's fast flow
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Patterned ground stories: wars, disasters and ice sheets
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Are rapid ice losses in Greenland caused by atmosphere or ocean?
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The glaciation of the Antarctic Peninsula: a journey through time
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Dark Snow in Greenland
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Are Karakoram glacier surges linked with climate?
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Ice sheets, glaciers and sea-level rise: a perspective from the 5th Assessment Report by the IPCC
⚠️ Note unusual time (THURSDAY)
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Antarctic elevation change from satellite radar altimetry
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Predicting subglacial lake locations and meltwater drainage pathways in Antarctica, Greenland and North America
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The ‘fingerprint’ left by icebergs that plough through sediment: Glacial Lake Agassiz, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Remote sensing of Greenland tidewater glaciers
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Glacier outburst floods: spatial and temporal evolution
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Using sediment archives from glacial fjords to reconstruct past glacier and ocean variability
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Unveiling the glacial and landscape evolution of West Antarctica: subglacial insights from ice-penetrating radar and satellite imagery
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Sea Ice Research at Finnish Meteorological Institute – from Ice Charts to Climate Studies
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Early East Antarctic Ice Sheet Growth Recorded in the Landscape of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Glacial landsystems: modern polar and alpine analogues for Quaternary palaeoglaciology
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Reproducing unexpected LGM ice-stream retreat behaviour in a dynamic numerical model of Marguerite Bay, Antarctica
⚠️ N.B. re-scheduled from earlier date
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
What's going on in Greenland?
⚠️ N.B. Change of date
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Palaeoenvironmental records from the West Antarctic Peninsula drift sediments over the last 75 ka.
⚠️ Note: not usual day
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Reflection seismic investigations of the Beaufort Sea margin, Arctic Ocean: Variable history of Quaternary ice-sheet advance
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Robert Falcon Scott: the Tasmanian links and an appreciation.
⚠️ Note unusual day
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Double bill: Modelling the evolution of supra-glacial lakes in the Russell glacier region of the Greenland Ice Sheet / IMBIE - Ice sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Microbial activity beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet: impacts beyond the ice margin?
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Double bill: "Monitoring Arctic water bodies using active microwave data" / "Airborne glacier geophysics in Greenland"
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Subglacial conditions on Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica: Results from ground-based geophysical surveys; and plans for future activities with the iSTAR Programme
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Glaciers on Mars
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Sub ice volcanism, ice sheets and global change
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Darker, wetter and faster: recent and projected trends of mass balance over the Greenland ice sheet and linkages to surface and sub-surface processes
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Challenges in modeling future sea level rise from melting glaciers
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Pleistocene and Holocene in Murchisonforden area, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard.
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Exploring radar data of ice sheets by means of numerical modelling
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Revealing the Antarctic continent with recent aerogeophysical exploration
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Inland thinning of West Antarctic Ice Sheet steered along subglacial rifts
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Densification in the Greenland dry snow zone - implications for altimetry
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The central-west sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet since the LGM - the story from offshore evidence
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The timing and rate of deglaciation along the north Svalbard margin
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Ice-ocean interactions in Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Polar ozone loss
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Microbial Communities in Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments.
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Understanding contemporary change in West Antarctica: Insights from a higher order ice sheet model with dynamic subglacial processes
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Modelling melt, water routing and the filling and drainage of lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Imaging contemporary subglacial landscapes: detailed geophysical surveys of Antarctic ice streams
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Why do glaciers fall apart?
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Antarctic subglacial hydrology and topography
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Oceanography in Arctic fjords
⚠️ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Quantifying the predictive uncertainty of numerical mass balance models
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
ANTARCTICA DAY Inaugural Lecture
⚠️ Note unusual time (7 PM)
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Calving Laws for Ice Sheet Models - Recent Progress and Future Prospects
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Ice Stream Tides
⚠️ Note unusual time (MONDAY)
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Northernmost Antarctic Peninsula glacial and climate changes
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Lives on The Ice - Changing Patterns of Antarctic Experience from Scott to Byrd
⚠️ Note unusual time: this seminar is on a Thursday
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Flow, fracture and modelled stability of the Larsen C ice shelf
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Automatic satellite monitoring of East Greenland's calving glacier fronts: seasonal signals and southern retreat
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Environmental Protection in the Arctic Ocean
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
The effects of coastal ocean warming and increased supra-glacial run-off on water temperature and circulation in Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, East Greenland
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Subaerial salt extrusions in Iran as analogues of ice sheets, streams & glaciers
⚠️ Image caption: view across the northern namakier at Kuh-e-namak (Dashti), Iran Zagros. Salt is > 500 my old.
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Neogene terrestrial environment of Antarctica
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Linking North and South Atlantic deep water circulation using Nd isotopes
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Marine Ice in Larsen Ice Shelf
⚠️ Note: unusual venue
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Where Have All the Icebergs Gone?
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Mechanisms of englacial conduit formation and their implications for subglacial recharge
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Geophysical surveys of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica: implications for in-situ exploration
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Erebus volcano, Antarctica: eruption dynamics and atmospheric impacts
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
In situ glacial geophysical investigations of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
TBA
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Antarctic subglacial hydrology
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Antarctic Engineering
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