And an extra special congratulations to our presentation and poster winners Ellery Littlewood and Sena Inkaya! 🥳

🧵4/4: Cwm Idwal is a National Nature Reserve in Eryri National Park, N.Wales. The dramatic landscape here has been shaped by glacial activity. You can explore Cwm Idwal via the VR glaciers Cwm Idwal virtual field trip developed by Dr Des McDougall.

🧵3/4: The Norfolk coast is dominated by glacial sediments, in particular till, which was deposited beneath the huge ice sheet that covered the landscape 0.5 million years ago. These tills contain minerals, providing high quality farmland, but are being increasingly eroded due to rising sea levels.

🧵2/4: Lower Bann valley drumlin field, Northern Ireland: the last ice sheet to cover Britain and Ireland moulded the lowland landscape into extensive fields of streamlined hills known as drumlins. Drumlins provide vital clues about the direction of ice flow within former ice sheets. 📷Alex Clark

🧵1/4: Coire Lagain, Isle of Skye is a well-developed glacial cirque, eroded over numerous glaciations. At this site, pioneering glaciologist James Forbes (1809-1868) applied his observations of modern glaciers in the European Alps to the glacial erosional landforms of the Cullins. 📷Dave Evans

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The assessors commented very positively on the scope and quality of the 11 entries that were short-listed out of 47 eligible papers.

Congratulations to both Sean and Lucy! 🧵 4/4

The runner-up is Lucy Blennerhassett from the Department of Geology at Trinity College Dublin, for her paper “Tephra detection without pre-separation in ashed peat” 🧵 3/4

This examined historical climate impacts on communities in SW USA based on a computational approach underpinned by the concept of acute drought stress. Sean is Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, having completed his PhD in Anthropology at Notre Dame University in 2023 🧵 2/4