Curious about climate-induced alpine vegetation dynamics on Ngarigo Country. Senior Research Officer, ANU and Threatened Species Officer, Queensland Herbarium
Kombumerri Country
Joined January 2019
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Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
I used to walk through these mountains drinking straight from the creeks. Thanks, feral horse lobby.
Piles & piles of horse shit & trampled alpine streams.
This is not what a National Park should look like.
🙏Please deliver a strong, clear @AuSenate report this Friday @SenatorGrogan @DavidPocock @sarahinthesen8 @DuniamJonathon
🦘🦎🐸
📸: Mike Bremers, Gooandra Creek, Sept 2023
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
One aim of yesterday’s walk was to see if Scotland’s last relic of the previous winter persisted at Aonach Beag. It did, but only just. In a couple of days’ time, Scotland will be snow-free for the second consecutive year.
This has *never* happened since records began (1700s).
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
Hi-Res Models are suggesting ski resort-level temperatures to exceed those record-breaking temps of yesterday.
Here's the departure from '91-20 climatological temps at resort level ~1500m ASL for next Monday.
+12°C above normal. #heatwave #ausweather
Record September warmth in the Australian Alps today. Perisher Valley’s 18.0°C was its highest Sept temp on record with data from 2 stations dating back to 1976. Falls Creek’s 16.2°C was also a Sept record by nearly 2°C, with data back to 1990.
More at: weatherzone.com.au/news/reco…
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
Unprecedented times.
Today’s visit to the Sphinx snow patch at Braeriach will be my last of 2023. It is now critically small and likely to vanish in the next few days. This will be the third consecutive disappearance and unheard of in the historical era (post 1750s). (1/3)
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
Join us in the @InsectConserv Lab at @westernsydneyu to do your PhD on Bogong moths!
Two fully funded scholarships available now!
Applications due October 31st, 2023.
More info here: kateumbers.com/student-suppo…
#insectconservation #ozinsects #bogong #PhDposition
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
Bjørn Lomborg notes global area burned is decreasing, not increasing. We know this is because more forests are now crops; the forests themselves are burning far more often. He tried similar spin in 2020 using my research; here was my response.
meanjin.com.au/blog/the-unle…
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
In case you didn’t know why @AlboMP and @tanya_plibersek approve new coal and gas with full support of LNP. #auspol
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
While Antarctica melts, the @AlboMP government cuts its funding and continues with coal and gas expansions. Unbelievable. Infuriating. Dystopian.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
🧊Antarctic Sea Ice — look at that 📉crash. Number explainer: for those who need a crash course in statistics—anything lower than X Standard Deviations means there is Y likelihood it deviated from normal sea ice levels by chance:
-3 SD = 0.27% chance
-4 SD = 0.0063% chance
-5 SD = 0.000057% chance
-6 SD = 0.0000002% chance
➡️Antarctic Sea Ice is now at -6.5 SD ==> 0.00000001% chance… or ⚠️1 in 10 BILLION chance this is a normal deviation.
HT @CFigueres
#climate #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateCrisis #climatechange
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
Not to be alarmist but…this is what’s called a six-sigma event, now unfolding in Antarctica.
Otherwise known as a once-in-7.5-million-year event.
Hang onto your hats.
HT @EliotJacobson
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
Our new detailed land use/land cover map for the EUSALP region in @ScientificData is out! 🥳
➡️ nature.com/articles/s41597-0…
We collected, harmonized and combined freely available datasets from different sources to build a high-resolution map. 🗺️🔎🛰️
@EgarterVigl @SebCandiago
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
The scientific consensus for #ClimateChange and that is is caused by human activities is 96-100%.
People think it's just 60-70% of climate scientists, because bots and climate change deniers flood social media and newspapers with false data, lies and fossil fuel propaganda.
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
For those who want to discuss the ongoing record-breaking 🔥 season in Canada, I made several informative maps to stimulate debates with hard facts. Feel free to suggest updates and some information/data that may be added (codes are ready to run!). 🧵👇 1/5
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
📣Join our team as the new Executive Director of caribou conservation with Indigenous-led Nîkanêse Wah tzee Stewardship Society
* Full time
* 100-130K/yr
* Based in Chetwynd, BC and surrounding area, with remote option
* lead teams, find $, implement
cariboufutures.ca/job-opport…
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
New research from @AlpineEcologist at Griffith.
“Ultimately, warmer temperatures, longer growing seasons, declining snow cover & variable precipitation regimes have resulted in the rapid expansion of the woody vegetation".
themountainjournal.com/2023/…
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
Bad fire science gets used to silence deep time indigenous knowledge and perspectives on fire. I'll be talking about some of the ways this happens and what the effects are this Thursday @RoyalSocietyVic and online.
rsv.org.au/events/decolonisi…
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
If you’re interested in doing a PhD or postdoc on bogong moths, please come and find me at #ASSAB2023! (Hint: I’m really tall)
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
Between 2010 and 2020 glaciers globally have lost 2% of their volume to the ocean. This would be an ice cube towering above the highest mountain peaks in the world.
👉Read more in our new study: doi.org/10.1029/2023GL102954
Dr Brodie Verrall 🛰🌱🏔 retweeted
New study in @NatureClimate with @ReganEarly shows that climate-driven range shifts are often smaller than commonly perceived. Protecting species within their geographic range more effective than translocations or protected area overhaul. #microclimate nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
