Jack Ward

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

10.05.2025 08:39 — 👍 7998    🔁 2688    💬 321    📌 167

Requesting Feedback - Earth Science at Australian Universities - White Paper Draft: White Paper:Securing the Future of Earth Sciences in Australian Universities Contributors: Dr Sabin Zahirovic (USYD), Dr Sandra Occhipinti (AGC), Executive Summary Earth Science capability at ...

We had 200 people attend the meeting, from academia, industry, and the community. United and extremely engaged, I've never seen a meeting like it. We are pushing this issue on all fronts. I've written some rough notes. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

29.11.2024 05:33 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

#WorldScienceFestivalBrisbane #cityofScience is up and running. Come down and learn about all the cool science going on in Queensland. Lots of kid’s activities. We are partnering with #BlueSeaBooks to showcase the mysterious world of Halimeda bioherms on the northern Great Barrier Reef. #HALO

22.03.2024 23:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Map of earthquakes and volcanoes around Southeast Asia.

You've heard of the Pacific Ring of Fire. But you haven't heard of the Southeast Asian Ring of Fire! That's because we're defining it for the first time in our new post. We think these two features are distinct in important ways - check it out. 🧪 ⚒️

earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/one-ring-t...

15.12.2023 18:08 — 👍 29    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

View of recently opened refurbished artifical lake with plants

After aeons & untold millions, the fences have finally come down. Wonder if it will actually function as intended.

06.12.2023 03:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Not a bad way to start the week! I’m excited for this to be online

04.12.2023 12:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The ocean is the reason we’re surviving climate change.

30.11.2023 20:22 — 👍 53    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 1

A lava lamp is sitting on the grass and is labelled "lava lamp". There's another lava lamp below the ground, in the dirt and it's labelled "magma lamp". It's a handy way to remember the difference between lava (molten rock above ground) and magma (underground). I've put a watermark on it "© @NadWGab, 2017" because it's been stolen more times than I can count.

I made this back in 2017 on Twitter and it's been stolen so many times so I better post it here too before someone else does! 🧪⚒️ #geology #minerals #volcanology

28.11.2023 19:38 — 👍 1901    🔁 449    💬 22    📌 11

I’m really pleased to share the publication of our collaborative study on Slamet volcano! This work was the culmination of my PhD, and represents a big step forward in our understanding of Slamet’s melt storage and eruptive potential. Open access link below!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

16.11.2023 17:09 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

If you're interested in Antarctic contribution to sea level, and/or Antarctic climate variability - I've got a paper coming out in Nature Geoscience in 10.5hrs - while I am asleep. I'll post a summary in my morning.

13.11.2023 05:37 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Globally coherent water cycle response to temperature change during the past two millennia - Nature ... Global temperature fluctuations during the last 2,000 years caused consistent changes in ocean evaporation and atmospheric moisture condensation processes, reflected in coherent water isotope signals ...

Today in Nature Geoscience, a culmination of NINEish years of hard work by 40+ people, lead by the indefatigable @otherrock.bsky.social

Iso2k is the source of & inspiration for some of my best science, and definitely the source of some of my favourite science people.

02.11.2023 21:04 — 👍 43    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 1

I hope you (and everyone else there) is safe, mate!

02.11.2023 01:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ancient groundwater: Why the water you're drinking may be thousands of years old As surface water diminishes in the Western US, people are drilling deeper wells – and tapping into older groundwater that can take thousands of years to replenish naturally.

In Australia, the absence of relief in the interior means that the timescales of groundwater flow can be even older ... maybe even millions of years.

And, interestingly, this means that tilting due to dynamic stresses from the mantle may influence the flow patterns.

12.10.2023 10:05 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

⚒️ @earth-science.bsky.social - just popping in here to explain how things work on the list.

1. Whenever somebody follows the account I do a quick check and add you as a contributor if you are posting stuff the list should see, or if you are an earth / environment / planets person …

12.10.2023 08:38 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

Sunset over the Limbla Syncline in the Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory – a fantastic record of the Cryogenian interglacial with spectacular views

21.10.2023 21:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0