New fully-funded PhD project working on flooding, climate change, catastrophe modelling and the re-insurance industry: unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/cli... Work with @floodre.bsky.social Erica Thompson and I.
03.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Sponge Analogy Problem: Moving Towards Clearer Communication of Peatland Hydrological Processes
Correctly communicating peatland hydrology.
We shouldn't say peatlands act as sponges...but they can slow flow and dampen droughts. Our new paper led by Kirsten Lees onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
@peatofmind.bsky.social @peatymike.bsky.social @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social @andybairdj.bsky.social @researchleeds.bsky.social
25.09.2025 16:07 — 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Fab work by our PhD student Resti Salmayenti who has published her first thesis paper in Environmental Research Letters showing how drainage and land cover interact to affect fire occurrence in Indonesian peatlands. Our paper is open access here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
02.07.2025 20:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wetland fragmentation is strongly associated with high population densities. African wetlands store an estimated 54 ± 11 Gt of carbon (surpassing Europe’s 12–31 Gt). If drained, they could release 260 MtC / yr, nearly ten times the carbon sequestration of pristine wetlands (27 MtC /yr).
02.07.2025 20:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Female zebrafish are more affected than males under polystyrene microplastics exposure
Microplastics are ubiquitous in freshwater and can be absorbed into fish skin and gills, accumulate in the gut, and be transported to other tissues, t…
New paper published from my PhD student Di Wu showing that polystyrene microplastic pollution adversely impacts female zebrafish more than males www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @carterlj.bsky.social Free version here if you have a paywall: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/220647/
22.12.2024 21:04 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Understanding Uncertainty to Reduce Climate Risks – NERC Centre for Doctoral Training
Check out our new UK NERC-funded doctoral training centre in climate change uncertainty and risk - funded projects now available for applicants: unrisk-cdt.ac.uk Hosted by University of Leeds in collaboration with Exeter and UCL
27.11.2024 12:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Microbial and mineral interactions decouple litter quality from soil organic matter formation
Nature Communications - This study challenges the hypothesis that high-quality plant litters form stable, mineral-associated soil organic carbon most efficiently, providing evidence that...
Our new paper out in Nature Communications led by Dafydd Elias sheds new light on how plant litter, microbes & soil minerals interact to develop mineral-associated soil organic carbon = crucial for long-term soil C storage rdcu.be/d0T4Q @natureportfolio.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social
21.11.2024 23:12 — 👍 34 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
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Research Fellow @SoGLeeds exploring remote sensing of northern peatlands🛰🌎 previously JNCC_UK 🌱 Geographer. Interested in Peatlands/EO/GI. AberUni alumni.
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography @ Newcastle University, specialising in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, remote sensing
PhD student @RivEscape project at @OxUniEarthSci researching river CO2 & CH4 emissions. Peat person, ML trainee, Cymraes.
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Nature and its recovery, people, art, historic landscapes. Born 318ppm CO2
Also, chief executive at Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Board member: RSST, CWMET, Nature North; vice-chair North Pennines National Landscape, Great North Bog.
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Pursuing a cleaner, greener world. 🌍🌊🔬🥬🚆
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Peatland scientist, father, Assistant Professor
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Professor of biogeochemistry @UniversityLeeds with interests in soil science, sustainable agriculture, water quality, hedgerows, peatlands & climate change
Peat SOM/DOM and peated whisky chemist using NMR, eDNA/RNA and MS tools.
Professor & hydrologist @Virginia_Tech. Interested in natural resources, water & science. Views are my own. Follow/Repost≠Endorsement.
Alistair is Professor in Environmental Science at the University of York. Alistair’s research focuses on understanding emerging and future ecological and health risks of chemical pollutants.
Professor of Environmental Chemistry researching the impacts of emerging contaminants in the environment 🌱 | UKRI Future Leader Fellow #UKRIFLF | 1/3 of carers in STEMM aka the 3Lauras
They say I’m outspoken. Professor of Global Change Science at UCL and University of Leeds. Author, The Human Planet. Trying to understand the world and change it too.
Blue Carbon, mangroves, salt marshes, roots, global changes
