A recently published paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41598…) is getting some traction: we mapped vegetation changes as a result of ice loss on the Greenland Ice Sheet. I did the change analysis using GW binomial regression.

theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

#rstats
#rspatial

The medieval marketing of Erik the Red presenting Greenland as a lush fertile land is coming true. The Greening of Greenland since the late 1980s in response to a warming Arctic has serious connotations, both locally within Greenland and globally:
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Greenland is greening! It's great to see this research published in Scientific Reports by Michael Grimes and Jonathan Carrivick. It brings back great fieldwork memories! nature.com/articles/s4159… Geography at Leeds

Some boreal peatlands are losing their characteristic pools – a concern for their unique ecosystems.

River Basins - Leeds and Uppsala universitet researchers studied the long-term changes of the pools at Hammarmossen to understand why it's happening.

Find out more:
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5…

Our recent study in Ecosystems by PhD student Daniel Colson, examining rapidly shrinking pool area on a patterned boreal peatland, has been summarised on the Faculty of Environment - University of Leeds news feed environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5…
Mark Smith Gustaf Granath Duncan Quincey Geography at Leeds River Basins - Leeds

Pleased to announce our new #PeatPaper ⬇️

Six Decades of Changes in Pool Characteristics on a Concentric-Patterned Raised Bog (Colson et al., 2023)

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Many thanks to my co-authors Paul J. Morris Mark Smith Duncan Quincey Håkan Rydin and Gustaf Granath

Great turnout for the River Basins - Leeds Geography at Leeds cluster night out. I can't quite remember the final scores, but I'm pretty certain I won. Thanks for organising Chris Stringer 🏔️

Family trip to Harewood House yesterday was surprising to say the least. Hats off to the volunteer who tried to point out the drapes to a Stormtrooper only to be met with heavy breathing through a mask.

Beyond pleased to share that our paper on how seasonal floods affect maternal health access on the Barotse Floodplain has now been published and is completely open access! This work was completed for my masters, and is my first first-author paper!

ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

It was great to visit Ennerdale for some surveys as part of the CASTOR Treescapes project last week. Such a lovely river! I wish there were more like it in England

Beaver dam tourism! Fieldwork at the Yorkshire site so had to check in on what I think is the largest #beaver dam in England. Great to see how their activity through the rest of site is expanding too #damoftheday

📺Good to see Dr Mark Smith Mark Smith Geography at Leeds on BBC The One Show last night.
🦫Talking about the amazing flood management skills of the Cropton Forest #beavers . A project he's working on with Forestry England. Watch from 18mins :
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

They've been beavering away. Can these little guys help keep floods at bay? 🌊🦫 One village has been seeing its benefits...

#TheOneShow 👉 bbc.in/3JlDfDf

It's exciting to see the Cropton forest #beavers on BBC The One Show tonight. The changes they have made to this location are incredible and well beyond just flood management benefits.

Great to be involved with this work and absolutely amazing what changes the beavers have made to the area

Our Research Student Spotlight this month is
Daniel Colson Daniel Colson , Geography at Leeds
🛰️Thesis title: Remote Sensing of Northern #Peatlands funded by NERC Panorama DTP
🌊Read more about Daniel's research and why he chose geography and Leeds:
water.leeds.ac.uk/news/research-…

📢New Paper! We found that glaciers in Greenland lost at least 587 km³ from their ablation areas since the LIA. Led by Jonathan Carrivick with Jenna Sutherland, Michael Grimes, Mark Smith, Clare Boston and others.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

Last day of the Geography at Leeds Portugal trip tomorrow. Great to be back to such a diverse environment and have Tim Baker teach us all about the local veg too! 👍👍🇵🇹🇵🇹

Well done Tom Willis on getting this paper out on the Zambezi hydrodynamic model. It took a while! Now being used to understand malaria transmission dynamics and health care access in the Barotse floodplain with Beth Mroz

On our way up north, we stopped in for Durham University Celebrate Science event. A wonderful initiative - the kids loved it. Thanks all!