Ian Matthews
@IanPMatthews
I am a Physical Geographer interested in understanding landscape responses to abrupt climate changes in the recent past. I am also the #MScQuatSci director
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http://pure.rhul.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/ian-matthews(fd227362-e745-496d-91c6-65d13a56ab91).html 11-05-2014 07:45:20
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Up Ben Wyvis NNR today to see the progress of the PeatlandACTION work. Incredible transformation and restoration.
Do the stretch, tilt and wobble dance!
This is a good illustration of Milankovic Cycle we teach in #geography and #physics
These are periodic changes in the orbital characteristics of a planet that control how much sunlight it receives. #geography teacher
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Luminescence ages generated at Aberystwyth University form part of 690 new ages to constrain the timing of growth & retreat of last British-Irish ice sheet. Retreat of this ice-sheet is now world’s best constrained BRITICE-CHRONO Aberystwyth University British Antarctic Survey
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
The full catastrophic journey of #HurricaneIan
From development in the Caribbean, to landfall over Cuba, then Florida, then South Carolina 💔
'There is no stable, readily identifiable, pre-drainage 'baseline...'' why #palaeoecology is crucial for #Rewilding #Restoration in theory AND practice #PeatTwitter
Congratulations to our MSc Quaternary Science cohort of 2021-2022 for an excellent set of dissertation presentations to end their degree 🎉 Wishing you all the best for the future and please keep in touch! RHULGeography #MScQuatSci
I think this is the largest dwarf birch I have ever seen! It was really common on the southern slopes of Ben Wyvis NNR particularly where it was sheltered from the west wind.
#dwarfbirch
#Rockfalls in Goûter couloir on #MontBlanc normal route two days ago due to anomalously high temp. this summer.
#Goûter and Tête Rousse mountain huts are now closed (!) since yesterday to stop use of the area...
Video credit RadioMontBlanc Infos