Christine S. Lane

A women stands by a wooden lab desk with a spatula held over a drainpipe filled with sediment.

Close up of a sediment core with a small channel of samples removed (plus a couple of bigger gaps from previous sampling). A labelled drainpipe lies alongside, plus a centrifuge tube rack with labels filled tubes in it.

Last week PhD student @yqnatdeng.bsky.social and @chslane.bsky.social were sampling cores from an Ethiopian lake…in Aberystwyth! Here’s hoping there’s lots of ancient cryptotephra to be found!
#tephratastic

Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project ISMIP7 is the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP7 (pronounced `IZ-mip`) Melt of Earth's ice sheets is already contributing to flooding experienced by coastal communities, globally. ISM...

Hey ice-sheet modellers! 👋

The next Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP) workshop will be hosted in Copenhagen (at GEUS) 23-25 March 2026. Details to follow!

Learn more about ISMIP at: www.ismip.org

This from last year’s Quaternary Climates and Environments sediments practical class still makes my day 🥼⚒️🌍

View from a grassy verge of an expansive peat bog.

50 cm of peat extracted into a drainpipe

The dream team. Dan and Lauren enjoying the Dartmoor scenery. Granite boulders and smooth topped hills.

Spent #fieldworkfriday in sunny Dartmoor extracting an exquisite peat sequence 😻

📢ARTIST REQUIRED📢Love working with young people & families? We're seeking an artist/facilitator to lead some workshops & create an art installation, film or animation, on the theme of climate change & the Ice Ages! ❄️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct 🙂@camunivmuseums.bsky.social
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Joined the first #Cambridge @kidicalmass.bsky.social this morning and those still-a-little-wobbly yellow legs were grinning all the way around. Thanks to the organisers and the patient folks who let us take up the sunny streets for a bit. #kidsonbikes #kidicalmass
@camcycle.bsky.social

An unprofessional-looking (“rustic”) lattice-work cake in a round plastic tub.

Yum! We’ve had 1000s of apples this year and have barely kept up. They’re earlies though, so nearly done. My go-to is @palaeostefan.bsky.social ‘s family (Dutch) appel taart recipe. Turned one out just 5 mins ago!

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

Great to see this wonderful team making the news for their careful and caring work. 🌍🌱
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I often feel lucky with a 12 min cycle through Cambridge to work @camunigeography.bsky.social 🚲 🌍🚲
But I’ve just been in Aber and realise this seafront walk is the only commute I’d trade in for 🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
If you have an uplifting route to work, will you share it?
#beachlife #beattheratrace #Aberystwyth

A group of ~30 people of various ages stood in front of an elegant blue building draped with flowers. They’re holding a banner with the logo and name of the “Integrating ice core, marine and terrestrial records” network on it.

Here we were!

We’ve had two days of science in beautiful Cluj as the “Integrating ice core, marine & terrestrial environments” network met for an open meeting. Photos of past/present @camtephra.bsky.social members presenting their work and the birthday flowers they embarrassed me with. @jinheum.bsky.social

A stylised white and green image of a 4 story brick building, lots of sash windows and the word “Geography” overlaid

[5/5] For any of the above, and more at @camunigeography.bsky.social , you’ll find details about how to approach supervisors and apply at www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate/

[4/5] Plus for 2026 we’re revamping our masters programme - why not apply to study for an MPhil in Past and Future Climates? A geographical take on understanding and predicting climate change past, present and future 🌍
👇
www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...

[3/5] Tephra too niche but love #Quaternary? I also have incredible colleagues working on palaeoclimate and palaeoecology, if those are areas of interest 🌤️🌊🌱🌋
Check out:
nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/france...
www.conservepalaeo.com
osmanclimate.com

[2/5] Feel free to get in touch to discuss your ideas. Funding is highly competitive, but there are opportunities for UK and overseas applicants. For example, check out the Cambridge “CREATES” PhD programme. Here’s me: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/StaffDirecto...

Six people in outdoor clothing stood posing in a row in a volcanic landscape. A peak (Mt Etna) can be seen in the background

[1/5] PhD recruitment season @camunigeography.bsky.social soon kicks off! If you’re interested in applying for a PhD in #tephra for palaeoclimate / archaeology / volcanology, consider applying to study in the Cambridge Tephra Lab @camtephra.bsky.social
🌋🌍☀️ Here we were at Mt Etna one year ago!

BBC Four - The Lost Neanderthals The secrets of the Neanderthal discoveries in the Mandrin Cave in France are revealed.

If you are in the UK, BBC4 tonight at 8 pm "The Lost Neanderthals". A doco about the site of Mandrin (Fr) and the work there of Ludovic Slimak and team. You might spot a glimpse of me too - I have been lucky enough to work with them on the site chronology for several years.

tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c

Cool! Anyone have one of those shirts and want to share a photo?

Journal of Quaternary Science Call for Papers Beyond the Eruption: Advances and applications in distal tephra analysis across the Geosciences <em>Journal of Quaternary Science</em> publishes papers on any field of Quaternary research, advancing understanding of earth's history over the last 2.58 million years.

🌋📢 Calling all #tephra researchers!
Join us in shaping this new JQS Special Issue.

"Beyond the #Eruption – Advances and Applications in Distal Tephra Analysis Across the Geosciences"

Deadline: 2 Jan 2026.

Further details below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Visiting a friend from my @oxfordtephra.bsky.social days and here’s the cup my morning coffee came in! #tephratastic

I *just* learnt how to tell a cricket from a grasshopper, so delighted to see this. Nice shot!

A sandstone Manor House with a clock on top, foregrounded by a meadow of dry freshly cut hay and a pond. Trees and blue sky reflected in the water.

Dappled light through old trees in the hollow of a well worn ring fort.

Serious holiday club envy this week. I’d like a few days around Wandlebury’s hill fort making dens and climbing trees please. Still, the drop-off strolls have been a nice way to bracket the days.

Whereas that’s only part of what the mark is for. It’s perfectly possibly to be rejected based on capability to deliver, ethics, RRI…

(Enjoying the bananas)

📢PIK is hiring: Earth Resilience Analyst
⁉️postdoc to explore planetary resilience, tipping points & planetary boundaries
🧪 Earth system/climate science
💻 HPC & modeling
📍 Potsdam | Start: 01.09 | Deadline: 20.07
🔗 potsdam.pi-asp.de/bewerber-web...

The press release is so difficult to interpret! What counts as a resubmission? If there is no nuance here it will reduce the job for the panels but destroy the development of careers.

This is wonderful news!! Congratulations @martamlahr.bsky.social 🎉🍾

Our catmint earning its keep. I’m enjoying visits from our neighbourhood cats #caturday

Alexander Mattin | Te Puna Pātiotio / Antarctic Research Centre | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Thanks to Alex Mattin [ www.wgtn.ac.nz/antarctic/ab... ] for visiting yesterday and giving a fascinating talk about his search for tephra from the ~25 kyr Ōruanui eruption in Antarctic ice cores!

Three adults in a colourful restaurant smiling for the camera in a row. They look proud and relaxed.

Last Tues we were celebrating @jinheum.bsky.social’s PhD viva 🥳
Many thanks to examiners @harrietallengeog.bsky.social @simon-blockley.bsky.social for your wisdom & support.
Jinheum also had a paper out [https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3730] & starts a postdoc in 2 weeks.
Congratulations Jinheum!