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Dr Tom Kelly

@Thomas_Kelly1

Instrument Tech at QMUL. PhD on Amazonian peatlands. Part-time fossiler/birder/gardener/astronomer/nature poet. Tweets my own

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Joined April 2013
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Very happy to have been 'Highly Commended' in the @QMUL Research and Innovation awards for our technical contribution to a study on landfill waste with @DrKateSpencer which featured on BBC Panorama. Proud to be part of this team.
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We have now sorted out our drone imagery from the field trip! Here we all are coring in an arctic fen near Kiruna. Thanks to @WildAtHartley for his drone piloting skills in what were very windy conditions.
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Also a big thank you to colleagues at Queens University Belfast who provided lots of pre-trip planning advice/discussions, and especially @GraemeSwindles and Richard Fewster for their input in the field on all things palsa!
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A great week with excellent colleagues from @QMULGeography and Biology sampling Arctic peatlands in Abisko. A successful mission and lots of work to do now we're back. A big thanks to the @RGS_IBG for funding this work 1/2
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Be sure to cast your ballot today in the general election - whoever you vote for remember that your vote is precious and people fought hard so that you could have it. 🗳️
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Palaeo friends - do you have any idea of good guides for plant macrofossil identification for British palaeo sites? I have Hilary Birks' great intro but not much else to go on
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Great to see the work of one of our @QMULGeography MSc students featuring in the Chilterns Riverfly Newsletter - thank you @Chilternstreams for all your support and collaboration. P.S. It's wet down on the floodplain at the moment! chilternstreams.org/riverfly…
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A belated thank you to Chris Ford and volunteers @RSPBMinsmere in Suffolk for a fantastic day in the field with our @QMULGeography first years. A fascinating and special place. It was dry and I saw a pair of Dartford warblers, what more could you ask for?
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I am currently supporting an MSc dissertation student who is very interested in looking at mining remediation (heavy metals). If anybody could offer ideas on potential sites/collaborators with the potential for fieldwork in the next few months that would be amazing #pollution
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Finally had a chance to look at some of my #astronomy photos from the last month - here a plane flies past the crescent moon on 23/5 with Venus in bottom right hand corner
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It’s that time of year again - time to turn all the summer raspberries into jam!
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Nice trip out to Herstmonceux last weekend - an astronomer's dream. Dome D contains the telescope used to prove Einstein's Theory of Relativity, though as usual not very much was made of this fact and the dome was, of course, closed to the public. A thread 1/n
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Perhaps I'm being unfair but I feel like we often don't make very much out of 'recent' scientific findings. Perhaps we take them too much for granted - here for example is Stephen Hawking at Herstmonceux as a young man. This was an important place for training astronomers.
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We are still looking for a new Laboratory Technician here in the Geog Labs - applications close next week though! If you are a current MSc student we would particularly encourage you to apply @CQRRHUL @UniRdg_GES @UCLgeography qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it…
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We're recruiting! We are a friendly bunch and we're looking for a Laboratory Technician to join us here in the labs at QMUL; if you think you might be interested the link is below. qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it…
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I've cast my vote - I always vote by post. If you haven't voted yet today then there's plenty of time left. Voting is only one part of living in a democracy, but remember to use yours!
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The chiffchaffs are back - such lovely birds and an unmistakable song - Spring must be here!
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The constellation Orion as seen from Blencathra - there is no substitute for dark skies and we can even see the shape of the Orion nebula in this image. A magical sky #astronomy
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Great little peatland at Blelham Bog - very obvious vegetation zones with what looks like Myrica grading into rushes. A fine day to take a peat core! Very hard work, but nice to be back in the field with colleagues #peat
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The beautiful clear skies of Blencathra last night. Can you spot the Orion nebula? #astronomy
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Well, I can't help but keep looking at the Moon - I have been using a slightly different setup and it has removed some niggling things which you probably won't even notice. So as the rain pours, here's La Lune from a few days ago... #Astronomy
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