Prof. Vincent Gauci

Environment and disease have tissue-specific effects on the tree microbiome Trees are essential for ecosystem function, but due to their long lifespan, are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disease. Tree-associated microbiota are critical for tree health and r...

🧵 New preprint alert!

From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social

Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Garden Grants GHGR — Homeworld Collective Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech

Which #methanotrophs drive methane degradation in the #phyllosphere of #trees? This project involves Sinchan Banerjee at Warwick and Professors Yin Chen, James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social at University of Birmingham
www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...

MethaneSat: The climate spy satellite that went quiet MethaneSat was developed to spot emission hot spots of invisible methane pollution from space. Without it, accurate methane monitoring will be incredibly difficult.

I was asked by @theconversation.com to provide an explainer/comment on the value of the @methanesat.bsky.social satellite following its power loss.

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Very nice! All the best with your measurements!

Somebody tell the drone display team! 😆

And the specially commissioned balloons? Do they take returns for Miss-Royaling?

Terrible isn’t it? 😆 I’ll go and ruin other peoples celebratory element days now.

“Achtuallyyyy, I think you’ll find…”

Hate to be that annoying guy on your special day but … “achtuallyyyy” … this was on King George’s watch. The third I think.
Should I get my coat?

Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social

Increased atomisation as we move from synchronous (chatting) to asynchronous means of communication. Real moments in time are no-longer shared with simple conversation. I find it a bit sad.

New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures' "We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world". Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Centre Director, Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world".

youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...

Thanks! That’s very kind of you to say, Ben. Hoping it will be useful for new entrants also. Much appreciated 🙏🏼

Of potential interest @ymalhi.bsky.social @erleellis.bsky.social

My piece for The Conversation elaborates on my NatRevs perspective (below). It supports (w/ a new mechanism) @simonlewis.bsky.social & @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social‘s idea of the Columbian exchange having global effects. With CH4 the Anthropocene start is 1592 theconversation.com/new-start-date…

My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j

Outstanding!!! Congratulations Eleanor and team!

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No 6th Mass Extinction Anthropocene 🌎🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling at University of Birmingham Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

We have a new 2-year post-doc position available in forest methane modelling as part of our NERC DefMet project. The team would appreciate it if suitable applicants were made aware of this opportunity. Thanks! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI250/r...

Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

The new global methane budget is now out! Seems to gloss over the measured 25-50Tg sink term in upland trees that was recently discovered (= or > to soil sink & prob more subject to change). Possibly because it’s not yet been included in models the authors use. Observations do matter though…

Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements

📄 buff.ly/CvjoOE7

Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊

Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com

Brilliant discovery. Well done @elliescerri.bsky.social , Huw and team! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thanks Kevin

Reducing Air Pollution Increases Methane?! with Vincent Gauci YouTube video by Climate Chat

Hear more about devastating impacts of the Laki volcano eruption and on the regional DECREASE in natural methane emissions in this insightful Climate Chat with @gaucigauci.bsky.social

Link with timestamp:
www.youtube.com/live/Z6aRSBa...

Greenhouse gas removal in agricultural peatland via raised water levels and soil amendment - Biochar Peatlands are an important natural store of carbon (C). Drainage of lowland peatlands for agriculture and the subsequent loss of anaerobic conditions had turned these C stores into major emitters of g...

Accelerated carbon return to agricultural peatlands through biochar addition - suppresses methane emissions and kicks off net GHG removal (with increased water level and added SO4). Excited to see this work from Chris Evans’ team at CEH.

Reducing air pollution could increase methane emissions from wetlands – here’s what needs to be done Improved computer models shed light on how reducing sulphur emissions will inadvertently release methane from wetlands.

Here’s our The Conversation piece about the research.

The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO2 concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH4 emissions About 8 to 15% more aggressive cuts to anthropogenic methane emissions are required to meet the 1.5° and 2°C warming goals.

Published tonight in Science Adances by Lu Shen’s fantastic team (and me) “The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO2 concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH4 emissions”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...