Will Harcourt
Interdisciplinary Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.
Digital twinning of the cryosphere.
Earth Observation 🛰️, Glaciology 🧊, and Artificial Intelligence 🖥️.
- SvalbardDT at ESA Workshop So much has been happening that I have not had a chance to keep up with posts on this website! You'll be seeing updates very soon... Let's start with the most recent - this week, SvalbardDT attended the ESA Digital Twin Earth Components: Open Science Meeting 2026' in…
- Some downtime to enjoy the snow - Longyearbreen behind!
- Back in the frozen north - Svalbard with more than a sprinkling of snow!
- New paper out in Journal of Glaciology! We have a new paper out! Work with Leigh Stearns, Michael Shahin, and Sid Shankar studying the potential of new ICEYE SAR satellite imagery to study the dynamic behaviour of ice mélange around the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The higher resolution…
- We have a new paper out! Work with @leighstearns.bsky.social, @laserglaciers.bsky.social, and Sid Shankar studying the potential of new ICEYE SAR satellite imagery to study the dynamic behaviour of ice mélange around the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Read more here: tinyurl.com/mtc94juu
- Reposted by Will HarcourtApplications are now open for a Glasgow-based Iapetus DTP project centred on using in situ 14C to study glacier histories in East Antarctica! tinyurl.com/3ddvynn2 @stever60.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
- We have a new preprint out reviewing the monitoring & detection of Svalbard surging glaciers: eartharxiv.org/repository/v... We also compiled a new database of Svalbard's surge-type glaciers: zenodo.org/records/1524... @dannipearce.bsky.social @hazlovell.bsky.social @adrianluckman.bsky.social
- A challenging field season this year, with some unprecedented issues with the local gasoline supply (lnss.no/oppdatering-...)! Nonetheless, we still managed to continue our monitoring of Borebreen's surge, which is currently advancing through the fjord and showing no signs of stopping...
- Back in my favourite place, Svalbard!
- I am extremely happy to see my colleague Brice Rea be appointed as the next director of @scotsages.bsky.social! I am looking forward to seeing SAGES continue to flourish in the years to come!
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- Reposted by Will HarcourtThe 2025 SAGES Annual Science Meeting in Stirling has been great! Thanks so all who came along and presented. It's been a wonderful two days in Stirling.
- Another great @scotsages.bsky.social conference - a wonderful community producing great science!
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- EGU Contributions! Next week we will be at EGU in Vienna presenting some of our teams exciting new research! Please come and talk to us: Poster #1 🧊 The distribution of glacier surge behaviour in Svalbard and implications for understanding unstable ice flow📅 Poster | Monday, 28 Apr, 10:45–12:30…
- Next week I will be at EGU in Vienna presenting some of our teams exciting new research - please come and talk to us! Here's a flavour of what we will be offering this year:
- New paper on using the internal GPS data from seismometers to track ice flow! Great work by Wojciech Gajek, also inc. @adrianluckman.bsky.social @dannipearce.bsky.social & Richard Hann First paper on the Borebreen surge, watch this space for more coming soon… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- Happy #WorldDayforGlaciers! 🧊🧊 I will forever be captivated by these natural beauties.
- New ESA Project! We are pleased to share our new project that officially kicked off in 2025: 'Svalbard Cryosphere Digital Twin (SvalbardDT)'. Website here: The SvalbardDT project will build a Digital Twin Component (DTC) as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESAs) Destination Earth (DestinE)…
- Running along the beach in Aberdeen this morning with the wind and rain battering down. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but I must say I kind of enjoy it!
- We are at the ESA Digital Twin workshop - great to be a part of the Destination Earth initiative!
- Hear about how AI and other new technologies are set to transform climate research and build a sustainable future in Scotland and further afield! I was delighted to participate in this episode of the magnificent @scotsages.bsky.social Climate Podcast! youtu.be/1odPOyrwpWo?...
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- Matteo Spagnolo gives an address at the launch of the @scotsages.bsky.social Climate Podcast!
- 🚨🚨 Fully-funded PhD Opportunity 🚨🚨 "Assessing the impact of glacier surges on 21st century ice mass loss in Svalbard using satellite remote sensing, climate reanalysis and modelling" Link: tinyurl.com/4we3km3m Apply: quartiles-dla.ac.uk/how-to-apply... Interested? Get in touch!
- Our podcast is out on 21st Jan - hear all about how new technologies are helping us better understand climate change and sustainable water management!
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- Really looking forward to seeing all the episodes from this podcast! Hosted by the amazing Laura Young, the @ScotSAGES podcast covers a diverse range of topics relating to climate change in Scotland and beyond. I will talk about the technologies of the future! Coming out 21st Jan!
- Our PhD student Steven Wallace presented a great paper on crevasse segmentation using SAM at the Northern Lights Deep Learning (NLDL) conference "Exploring Segment Anything Foundation Models for Out of Domain Crevasse Drone Image Segmentation" Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=CGkyj...
- The approach of 'it can wait until the new year' is starting to bite hard...
- Crisp winters morning here in Aberdeen; the old campus is looking stunning in the dim light!
- New paper on snow in Scotland! Happy new year and with it brings a new paper published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing entitled: "Spatial and temporal variations in 94 GHz radar backscatter from a springtime snowpack". You can access the paper…
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- Snow has made its way to Aberdeen. Cycling was interesting this morning...
- Very excited to see so many new folk in BlueSky! To reintroduce myself: I love glaciers, digital twins, the Arctic, and satellites! You will find me in Aberdeen most of the year, then quite often Svalbard in spring/summer. Happy to meet new and old friends here!
- A reminder that the deadline to apply for our exciting PDRF position is 18th November! Please get in touch if you are thinking of applying! Details below
- I suddenly have a lot more followers, I take it there’s a mass twitter exodus?
- A reminder to consider applying for our PDRF position on digital twins, details below. Deadline: 18th November!
