Lost isotope chemist now in geography @SwanseaUni! Palaeoclimatologist, mine remediation, hydrology, biochar. Ex-Pres @treeringsociety. Voluntary CFR. Own views
Swansea, Wales
Joined September 2016
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The NHS might be struggling right now, but thank goodness no one in the UK will be asked to pay $807.96 for insulin.
We must never stop fighting to keep it that way.
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Giant sequoia trees are thriving in the UK, growing at a similar rate to those in California, the tree’s native home. newscientist.com/article/242…
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Three different mines, three different histories, one thing in common - sustained input of metals into rivers. My latest paper is now out in the Journal of Hydrology, looking at #Nantymwyn, #Frongoch and #ParysMountain metal mines:
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We’re recruiting! 👷♀️We have a number of exciting opportunities between May & September for people to come & join our Environmental monitoring teams across Wales and assist with their monitoring programmes this summer 🐟
Send your CV to: [email protected]
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Interested in reconstructing past explosive volcanism then come to work with us…..
Research Officer - Tephrochronology/Volcanology at Swansea University jobs.ac.uk/job/DFZ914/resear…
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Delighted to see my first paper of 2024 in @EnvSciRSC Water Research & Technology, on tracing metal sources in the abandoned #Nantymwyn lead mine. Thanks to my excellent co-authors, @DocIsotopes, Patrick Byrne, Rory Walsh, @aspectsofwales & Tom Williams doi.org/10.1039/D3EW00194F
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🚨NEW: Two in three research staff in UK universities are employed on fixed-term contracts
Today's report exposes the widespread use of gig-economy style contracts for the staff who prop up university research departments.
Read the full report here: ucu.org.uk/article/13444/New…
ALT 66% of research staff on insecure contracts
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💚🌳Our latest mega-team paper, involving lots of the EU isotope dendro community, came out over the hols. d18O VPD changes in recent centuries show anthropogenic atmospheric drying across an EU tree ring network. Superbly led by @KerstinTreydte 🌳💚 ➡️ nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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😀Also extremely happy about the final outcome of this long-lasting, tree-ring oxygen isotope and earth system model based work on unprecedented atmospheric drying across Europe. Read more here: rdcu.be/duzAw @NatureGeosci.
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1/2 Interested in a funded PhD for 2024?
Get in touch about potential topics: multi-isotopes & diet & mobility, isotope zooarchaeology, palaeoecology & palaeoclimate reconstruction, isoscapes, palaeoproteomics, ZooMS of bone fragments or artefacts, isotope archaeobotany
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After today's High Court ruling that govt and @EnvAgency are acting illegally is this a good time to remind you the SoS for @DefraGovUK is married to an executive at @AnglianWater a WC guilty of 72 environmental permit breaches over the last 10 years?
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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It's a pleasure to announce the new @treeringsociety Executive Council for 2024-2026. We thank the existing council for all their hard work and welcome the new team when they start on 1 January 2024. Details at:
treeringsociety.org/Election…
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AN URGENT MESSAGE TO ALL UCU HE MEMBERS👇
Don't let the vice-chancellors win.
Post your YES vote today.
#ucuRISING
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It's Saturday. Have you been working today? If you want a better work-life balance, to reduce workloads, and have proper time to put your mental health first, then get that YES vote posted back today.
Time's nearly up.
#ucuRISING
ALT 3 days to put your mental health first
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Data Science (Tenure-Track) at the University of Colorado Boulder:
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
Full Consideration Date for Applications: November 11, 2023.
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Only a few days left to apply to join the @treeringsociety Executive Council. Elections begin in October 2023. Apply today!
treeringsociety.org/Election…
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Great opportunity to work in the other side of the Atlantic! 🐧
📢An exciting #jobopportunity to drive our scientific understanding of the state of the #FalklandIslands peatlands, as well as overall long-term monitoring of environmental change 👇👇👇
Apply now: hr.breathehr.com/v/peatland-…
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Here's some @UCUNUbranch members doing a mass ballot posting today. Every @ucu member should be doing the same!
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We are currently accepting applications for @isotopesUK funding from UK-based researchers using isotopes in all branches of Earth Science. The next deadline is the 4th of October.
Check out isotopesuk.org/ for detalis
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Four-year Ph.D. position at Stockholm University on "Tree rings as a environmental archive." Deadline 6 October 2023:
su.se/english/about-the-univ…