Sammie Buzzard
Glaciology and climate ❄️🐧🐻❄️
@cpom-uk.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Northumbria Uni
northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/…
Chief butler to Pingo the rescue dog 🐕
Trail running 🏃🏼♀️ oboist 🎶 Barnet FC 🧡
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- It's @cosmicshambles.com 9 lessons time and I've already acquired a @jamiebgall.co.uk pin, strong start
- Reposted by Sammie BuzzardNext Saturday we've got two #NineLessons shows at Kings Place. A family matinee and then an evening show. Here's some of the guests joining @robinince.bsky.social inc @garwboy.bsky.social, @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social, @particleclara.bsky.social and more. Tix www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...
- Very excited to be part of this dream team of supervisors 🇦🇶 Interested in ice shelves? Come join us at @cpom-uk.bsky.social, the North East 🇬🇧 is a pretty great place to be!
- Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK: "The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling" More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️
- Reposted by Sammie Buzzard🚁 At the Lit & Phil last week, CPOM's @andyshepherd.bsky.social & @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social showed how drones are transforming fieldwork in polar regions, sharing these highlights from a CPOM PhD research trip to Iceland last year ❄️ #PolarScience #ClimateResearch #Dronetech
- Reposted by Sammie Buzzardstory by me! 🧪 (and guest starring @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social )
- Icebergs are big. Researchers made mini versions in a lab to better understand what moves them. eos.org/articles/mel...
- I've been working on it for over a decade but the scale of the ice in Antarctica still 🤯 Look for the scale bar in the bottom right, 4km
- Reposted by Sammie BuzzardPolar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’
- Our paper is out, providing alternative viewpoints to some polar geoengineering ideas covered in the media recently. Lots still to talk about but let's focus on decarbonising instead of drilling Antarctica for now? 🇦🇶 Thanks @newscientist.com @mjflepage.bsky.social for covering this important issue!
- CPOM Director for Knowledge Exchange Sammie Buzzard @northumbriauni.bsky.social (@treacherousbuzz.bsky.social) comments in this article from the New Scientist on research published today on the risks and realities of polar geoengineering 👇 www.newscientist.com/article/2495...
- 2 weeks internet free in camp. Nothing bad happened in the UK or the world in general while we were away... right? 😬
- I've got test tubes am I a real scientist now? 👩🏼🔬
- It's a double pole summer, can I even call myself a modeller any more? The SLIDE team all safely arrived in Kangerlussuaq and ready to science (after sleep)!
- Reposted by Sammie BuzzardCPOM's @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social joined @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk to investigate what lies beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, Antarctica 🌊 Watch the 📽️ - cpom.org.uk/what-lies-be...
- Back at @bas.ac.uk and the scale model of the Sir David Attenborough is so much more fun when you can spot your own cabin. Wishing I was back south and not in the Cambridge heat though! 🥵
- Two days, two school visits, two excellent sets of students, thanks yr 8 @hebburncomp.bsky.social & yr 12 @ St Mary's! Hopefully a few future glaciologists inspired by my adventures on Boaty McBoatface (picture taken by one of the SDA crew in Lemaire Channel 🇦🇶, I'm on the tiny boat by the big berg!)
- "Antarctic research is central to global climate strategies. Although geoengineering solutions have been proposed, their high costs and environmental risks make them less viable compared to more effective strategies like reducing global carbon emissions." publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
- The updated UK government report on Antarctica hits the nail on the head, can we just focus on reducing emissions now?
- Reposted by Sammie Buzzardreports almost daily of Palestinians being killed while trying desperately to get to supplies. what a horrific catch 22 Gazans are trapped in.
- We came looking for chlorophyll and our acoustician found this... At 180m tall I guess we found out where the monster hangs out when not in Loch Ness @biopole.bsky.social? www.instagram.com/p/DJ4LOnONVg...
- Making new friends in the Lemaire Channel 😍
- The science team currently on the RRS Sir David Attenborough 🚢 We've been finding out more about what's going on in the polar ocean and atmosphere as the southern hemisphere heads into winter ❄️ 📷 @drbradbrad.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social
- Some of the @biopole.bsky.social team and our science buddies enjoyed a walk around Rothera this morning, it's definitely getting wintery here! Necessary exercise to burn off all the incredible food on the RRS Sir David Attenborough. Fish and chips Friday tonight 😋
- Good morning from Boaty McBoatface 🚢
- In 2016 @tjy511.bsky.social and I were lucky enough to be invited to the keel laying for the RRS Sir David Attenborough through @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social. Neither of us ever expected to go on the ship but there was a free breakfast and we almost got a selfie with the man himself 🚢
- In 2021 I got to see the finished ship when she docked at Greenwich before her first trip to Antarctica. I got to come and talk polar science with @cosmicshambles.com and @helenczerski.bsky.social but my science was still very firmly on the ice ❄️
- Fast forward to today and I'm on the ship for the first time waiting to depart the Falklands for Rothera. Could not be more excited for this totally unexpected chance thanks to @biopole.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social 🐬 Fingers crossed the Drake Passage is kind to us!
- Parents have been clearing out my old school books and turns out I've actually been concerned about Antarctica for quite some time. Promise not to make a fire once I get there 😬
- Reposted by Sammie BuzzardIt’s been a wonderful final day of #EGU25 with a talk and poster from CPOM’s @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) and posters from Adam Bateson and David Schroeder (@uniofreading.bsky.social). Here are some photos of the team in action! Wishing everyone a safe journey home.
- 6 years of the session admin, 2 convening virtually and now finally 1 in person. This had better be one hell of a party...
- Strong start to the last day of EGU25, it's finally ice sheet hydrology time!!❄️💧 Kicking us off it's our invited speaker Tim Hill with his statistical approach to subglacial modelling.
- Continuing with our very 🌈 session(sadly just on my camera not in person) Gabriel Cairns is modelling hydrology in subglacial sediments
- Thomas Zwinger took us to "numerical hell on earth", otherwise known as water flow at the bed of the glacier. With added Cheese.
- Excited to announce that the SLIDE team have won EGU25. Commiserations to all others participating.
- It's nice to be shown "nice landforms" by Chris in the safety of an EGU lecture than from the car in Greenland while he was definitely much more excited about the landforms than the direction the road was going in 😂
- It's finally hydrology day EGU cryo, don't have too many poster beers tonight because the best is yet to come and we're starting early! 💧🥱
- Here is our final CPOM-related research highlights slide for #EGU25 👇 Wishing everyone at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna a wonderful last day tomorrow, and a safe journey home.
- Cryo ❄️ folks at EGU there's a women and non binary lunch today that I couldn't find on the schedule, see you there if that's you! 12:30 EGU networking zone – terrace G (Purple Level) A helpful list of all Cryo events here: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...
- Almost submitted my conference poster to print with the word Penisula on it. How's your day going? 🤦🏼♀️
- I've been quiet on here recently as term time is a lot (combined with the small matter of finally getting to own our own house) but we rounded off the term with a beautiful trip to Oban with our 2nd year Geographers and now it's finally time to remember how to science again at EGU 🥶🇦🇹
- Reposted by Sammie BuzzardThis statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
- Reposted by Sammie BuzzardIf, like me, you're new to this platform, have you considered joining @thegreenrunners.bsky.social? We have 3,000+ members (including Jasmin, Paris, Kilian Jornet, John Kelly) and none of us are perfect, but we do care. The bigger we are the more we can do. Thank you 💚🙏
- Yet another grim Northern fieldtrip for our students today, we had no choice but to take them to the pub on the way home to recover ☀️🍺
- Sharing our cool (pun intended) @cpom-uk.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social science to a sold out RI this evening ❄️🐧🥶 Thanks @fotsn.bsky.social for letting me come and talk all things Antarctica, necessary and unnecessary!
- Thanks @marinemumbles.bsky.social for capturing this, so much lovely support from some sci comm legends in the audience and among the other speakers 🤩
- Tonight! Live stream tickets still available for the bargain price of only a fiver! That's less than the price of a pint in a lot of places, even Newcastle as I discovered last night 😭
- Less than 36 hours to go! We're so excited for tomorrow's show at @ri-science.bsky.social! This show is SOLD OUT for in-person tickets, but you can buy a livestream pass for as little as £5 right up until show time! Get yours now! www.rigb.org/whats-on/eve...
- Speaking of it being 2025, I didn't expect to have to remind you all that people who are not white European males do also study glaciers as the Guardian seems to have temporarily forgotten. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Spent yesterday attempting to survive a simulated storm in a life raft. Was great not to be the only lady the PPE was too big for (sigh) but enjoyed meeting some awesome ocean going scientists also working in the North East. Felt quite seasick after so that bodes well for the Drake Passage 😂😂
- It's 2025 but every woman on my sea survival course is a scientist and every man is working on ships/ rigs full time. The instructor made that assumption about us all without asking too 😬🤮 But tell me more about how careers aren't still gendered.
- Nerd dreams achieved 🐧❄️🥶
- 🐧Performer Announcement! 🐧 Glaciologist, mathematician & climate scientist @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social joins us at the @ri-science.bsky.social! Sammie will reflect on the 2004 Lloyd Peck lectures about Antarctica, with updates on how much more we know 20 years later 📆 2 March 🎟️ fotsn.com/tickets
- Really nice to hear all the updates on Cryoskills and Cryoegg- super cool science and inclusion work, thanks @drmikepj.bsky.social!
- Lovely to visit the cryo-folks of Northumbria University yesterday- thanks for a warm welcome and some excellent hospitality! Thanks especially to @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social for inviting me!
- Reposted by Sammie Buzzard28 people have added their names already. If you'd like to join us in solidarity and to emphasise the importance of EDI in polar science, then let me know. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/02/pola...
- Reposted by Sammie BuzzardPolar science needs diversity. I stand in solidarity with my USA colleagues who are seeing destructive practices rolling back decades of progress. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/02/pola...
- Reposted by Sammie BuzzardThis kid slightly misunderstood their homework assignment and we could not possibly love it more. 12/10
- Thanks Lit and Phil for having me, a lot of fun to fit 200 years of polar science into an hour, and with some excellent questions too!
- Full house for the launch of our "Inspired By" lecture series to celebrate 200 years of the Lit and Phil. Thanks to Dr Sammie Buzzard for a brilliant talk! Next one: Feb 17. www.litandphil.org.uk/events/ @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social
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- Totally unrelated to any previous posts, I was happy to find these in the mail room today that Prof Lloyd Peck generously sent my way, that's this week's TV sorted 🤓
- This looks fun, I wonder if any of the mystery speakers will be looking back to the 2004 Christmas lecture on Antarctica 🤔❔❔
- Shall we do it again? 👀🎈 We return to the @ri-science.bsky.social on 2nd March, for an exciting evening of nerdery celebrating 200 years of the Christmas lectures! In-person tickets are flying out the door, and we'll be livestreaming once again too! Don't miss it! 👇 www.rigb.org/whats-on/eve...
- Reposted by Sammie Buzzard"It's Dr, Actually" - Now available as trans and non-binary pins! I think a lot of people need a reminder right now that experts know gender isn't binary, and a lot of us need a reminder we're not alone. So please share widely! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
- Enjoying watching @cpom-uk.bsky.social's @icewicks.bsky.social's excellent contribution to a panel as part of the launch of the UNESCO International Year of Glaciers' Preservation. Impressed supervisor moment (and some bonus promotion for SLIDE project too!)
- Highly recommend this as one of the few ways you can apply for your own funding as an ECR. I had a great time at University of Chicago working on some modelling problems that I wouldn't have had the chance to think about otherwise.
- ❄️It's that time of year again!❄️ The Antarctic Science International Bursary is open for applications! £6000 bursaries available to ECRs anywhere in the world for #Antarctic science projects that extend the scope of current work. Deadline 21 March antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an...
