Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography @ExeterGeography. Earth scientist with interests in environmental and climatic change. @Patagonia pro
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It's getting easier to be green 🌱
🐸 While Kermit may have decided green was all he wanted to be, 🧑🔬 scientists warn that a greening trend across the #AntarcticPeninsula is underway & accelerating due to #climatechange.
From our team at @UniofExeter ⤵️
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Antarctica Experiencing Rapid Greening as Planet Warms, Study Shows onegreenplanet.org/environme… via @OneGreenPlanet
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On Friday, our new @NatureGeosci paper, ‘Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites’, was published.
We show, for the first time, that the ‘greening’ trend seen in the cold-climate ecosystems of the Arctic is mirrored on the Antarctic continent,🧵1/
We found that vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula had increased nearly 14-fold between 1986 and 2021, with the rate of ‘greening’ increasing by over 30% in the last five years of the study.🧵2/
These numbers are shocking and could have severe implications for biodiversity and ecological functioning in Antarctica. The continent’s environmental future is very much at risk. 🧵3/3
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Article: The Antarctic Peninsula is greening at an accelerating rate
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ALT Maps of the Antarctic Peninsula showing the spatial and temporal complexity in its greening trend over the past 35 years
Fantastic internship for first and second year undergraduate students - working with my good friend @ScootJD at @PlymUni, using tree ring analysis to investigate the response of the UK's wet woodland to climate and human pressures. Deadline is 13th May. aries-dtp.ac.uk/davidson/
🚨🌎New @Nature paper! Here, we suggest that the recent rejection of the 'Anthropocene' as a defined epoch creates opportunities for the concept's interpretation, critique and application across disciplines, cultures and world views.
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New PhD Opportunity: 'Evaluating the relative importance of the largest natural carbon sinks in Patagonia'. Working with fjord and peatland sediments at @UniofExeter and @ParisSaclay.
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Nouvelle opportunité de doctorat : « Évaluer l'importance relative des plus grands puits de carbone naturels de Patagonie ». Travailler avec les sédiments des fjords et des tourbières à @UniofExeter et @ParisSaclay.
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Very sad to hear this. Mike made me feel very welcome in Belfast on my first PhD fieldtrip. We had a tour of the local peatlands, saw Lough Neagh and some archaeology, before enjoying the best Chinese meal I’ve ever had, nr. Botanic Ave. A lovely guy and a fascinating scientist.
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📣 Funded PhD Studentship 🧬
Join us to investigate the expansion of ancient British agricultural expansion using next-generation methods!
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@toby_pennington
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Deadline 9th Jan. Share & RT!
#phd #gw4 #sedaDNA #agriculture
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Second #PhDproject is investigating the impact of regenerative agriculture on lowland #peat soil characteristics and #GHG fluxes, led by Prof. Will Blake, with me, @jkrowan and Prof. Brian Reid (UoEastAnglia) aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships… (3/n)
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First #PhDproject is looking at integrating modern and long-term ecology to inform UK #peatland #fire management led by @JessieW_Palaeo, with me, Prof. Ralph Fyfe and @garethdclay (UoManchester)! aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships… (2/n)
We are excited to be able to advertise two opportunities to join the @ConvexSeascape at @ExeterGeography. The first is for a fully-funded PhD (exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…) , and the second is for a postdoctoral research fellow (jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webre…). Please share and RT!🧵1/3
Our part of the project will focus on tracing the origin of blue carbon in near-shore marine sediments using a multi-proxy suite of palaeoecological, geochemical, eDNA and geochronological techniques, with exciting fieldwork opportunities. 🧵2/3
Our project works in partnership with @Bluemarinef and a host of other fantastic partners. Follow the links to find out more or get in contact with me or @richardktennant for additional info! 🧵3/3
@ExeterMarine @RewildingArg @ConvexIn
Welcome @emma_duley - can’t wait for our first meeting!
Welcoming @emma_duley this week who has started a @ARIES_DTP PhD with me looking at combining contemporary + palaeo techniques to better understand wet woodland carbon dynamics, co-supervised with @alicemmilner @ThomasPRoland and @JessieW_palaeo Super excited to have you join us!
Another exciting @ConvexSeascape PhD opportunity: 'Effects of seabed disturbances and protection on uptake and storage of seascape carbon' with @UniofExeter @MandelaUni Application deadline: 30 August tinyurl.com/3yff25pj
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Full funded #phd opportunity focusing on #bluecarbon with the @ConvexSeascape survey, @UofE_Research & partners in Argentina. International, EU or UK applicants - all fully funded. Particularly keen for Spanish & English speakers. Come join us! Please RT exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
