Bob Hilton

Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

Great news from #Cornwall, where #geothermal energy and lithium are now being generated from deep, hot granite. ⚒️

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Is enhanced rock weathering ready as a climate mitigation strategy?

Our latest work explores key uncertainties — from feedstock availability and the land–ocean continuum to plant–soil interactions and socioeconomic impacts.

Now published in our perspective paper:

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🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 Happy to see this review out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Reviews Earth & Environ! We go through looming uncertainties related to wide-scale application of ERW. It will be a rocky path! @mschiedung.bsky.social @profbobhilton.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

#RECCAP2 paper alert, Jemma Wadham led the polar chapter, summarizing knowns and (large) unknowns of carbon stocks and fluxes from ice sheets to land fringes, fjords, 🌊 oceans and sediments.🧪 Excellent reference starting point for future work.
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@awi.de

Why has it been so wet this winter? This winter has felt exceptionally wet for many parts of the UK, with repeated bouts of rain and very few prolonged dry spells.

Why has it been so wet this winter (in the UK)?

www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/wh...

Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing 2026 Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing Ben Bond-Lamberty Based on a presentation at the AGU Early Career Scientist Workshop, 2019 1

Made some revisions to my "Effective, Efficient, and Fair Peer Reviewing" presentation in advance of a seminar at U-Toledo today docs.google.com/presentation...

We find large #carbon stores and fluxes associated with ice sheets, their land fringes, and oceans.

But many remaining uncertainties, & we still lack measurements to assess change. 🧪

Great to be a part of the team working on this.

@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

An Ice Sheet‐to‐Ocean Analysis of Carbon Stores and Fluxes in Earth's Polar Regions (RECCAP2, Polar Ice Sheets) Polar ice sheets, land fringes and oceans host vast carbon reserves (>10,000 billion tonnes, Gt) but with high uncertainty Polar ice sheets and their surrounding oceans are likely net sinks for C...

New paper! Led by Jemma Wadham on “An #Ice Sheet-to-Ocean Analysis of #Carbon Stores and Fluxes in Earth's Polar Regions (#RECCAP2, Polar Ice Sheets)” ❄️🧪🥼

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Very excited to announce *TWO* fully-funded PhD positions starting this summer focusing on greenhouse gases in the peatlands of the Congo Basin! Both positions are joint between my group in @eth-eaps.bsky.social and that of @johansix.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social. Come join us!

We're hiring a full-time technician to support radiocarbon analyses. If you have some experience with analytical instruments and background in chemistry, earth sciences, archaeology, and/or ecology, this could be the job for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Today is World Wetlands Day! This year’s focus is on the cultural heritage and traditional knowledge these landscapes provide:

www.worldwetlandsday.org

Sundew pic from Hebrides fieldwork last year 🌸

#worldwetlandsday #peatlands

A reminder to register and submit your abstracts for the upcoming GGRiP meeting in Bristol!

ggrip2026.co.uk

🌊 Did you know rivers release greenhouse gases?

This #WorldWetlandsDay, @profbobhilton.bsky.social discusses his research on how rivers, streams & deltas release CO2 & methane - and how #climatechange may affect this ➡️ https://bit.ly/3NO68x1

#WorldWetlandsDay @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

Hydrothermal dolomitisation of a deep‐water bioherm isolated in a non‐dolomitised intraplatform basin within the Norian Dolomia Principale (Southern Alps, northern Italy) We propose that one of the largest known bioconstructions (the Monte Zenone bioherm) in the Southern Alps, northern Italy, and its growth on a tilted and drowned platform block of the Norian Dolomia ...

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Very excited to finally see the thesis work of my ~first~ M.Sc. student published---and, to boot, it's in a special edition dedicated to the late, great Judy McKenzie!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ancient global warming was amplified by widespread forest fires and soil erosion 56 million years ago the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of rapid global warming, occurred. Within the span of a couple of millennia, temperatures rose by 5 degrees, triggered by a huge release of carbon. Due to its likeness to present-day warming, the PETM is often used to test the long-term environmental response to large-scale perturbations, making it a very scientifically valuable climatic event to study.

New research shows that global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum was amplified by widespread forest fires and soil erosion, which occurred within as little as a few centuries after a huge amount of carbon dioxide entered the atmosphere 🔥

Read the full story:
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Delighted to see my @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social colleagues Gideon Henderson (CBE) and Tamsin Mather (OBE) recognised in the New Years honours list published this evening. Brilliant news for them and for Earth Sciences more generally.

Reliable CO₂ data. Highly accurate. Long-term stability. Zero drift. Integrate it or use it as a stand-alone analyzer. Stop by at #CANVAS25. See how the SBA-5 delivers data you can trust. Experience what true data confidence feels like. #CO2 #IndoorAg #IAQ @ASA_CSSA_SSSA bit.ly/4hTIvhr

🚨Calling all U.K. Arctic terrestrial scientists.

"UK Arctic terrestrial science strengths and priorities workshop"
to discuss and then produce a prospectus outlining the UK’s “Strengths & Priorities” in Arctic terrestrial research.

Info and registration link here 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1HV0c...

Opportunities matching 'earth' Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Seismic waveforms and power spectral density plots showing the signal of a landslide lake outburst flood.

Planet satellite image from August 2025 of a large landslide blocking a river and creating a lake.

The Matai’an landslide dam in eastern Taiwan has failed this afternoon (eos.org/thelandslide...), flooding Guangfu, about 15 km downstream focustaiwan.tw/society/2025.... Even in the middle of a typhoon, the resulting flood produced a detectable seismic signal at stations ~40 km away.

🚨Job Alert 🚨 The Department of #Geology at the University of Otago in #NewZealand invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer – equivalent to Assistant Professor in North American academic systems) in Earth sciences or adjacent field. ⚒️🧪 #Geosciences

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There's still one week to apply for our Faraday Discovery Fellowships. These prestigious long-term awards are designed to support mid-career research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. Find out more now:

#RSGrants

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Arctic warming threatens vast carbon stores locked in permafrost. Don't miss this webinar to learn how river sediments reveal carbon stability + climate feedbacks. Register today! bit.ly/ppswb @profbobhilton.bsky.social @leomenar.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social #climatechange #climatescience

New Study in ES&T! Permafrost peatlands accumulate mercury from distant sources, but thaw causes collapse into wetter bogs and fens. Lauren Thompson shows that these bogs, and especially fens, become hotspots for mercury methylation, and potential downstream transport.

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We're hiring!
Join us as an Associate Professor in Sustainable Earth Energy 🌍 Lead research in low-carbon geoenergy & energy storage, at one of the UK’s top universities. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 on this link👉
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#DurhamUniversity #Hiring #ApplyToday

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Exceptional research leaders awarded first Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships | Royal Society Seven pioneering researchers have been announced as the first recipients.

We are very happy to announce the seven pioneering researchers who are the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships, long-term awards that support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...

There's been a lot of (model-based) hype over the years about a "large Neoproterozoic DOC reservoir" that could have triggered the end of snowball earth and the proliferation of multi-cellular life. BUT here we show this was not the case. Instead, DOC levels were about 90% lower than today

The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides - Nature A direct proxy for past dissolved organic carbon signatures using co-precipitated organic carbon in iron ooids enables reconstruction of marine dissolved organic carbon signals dating back to the Pala...

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 After >1 year in review and six (6!) reviewers, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out! Here, we provide the first data-based record of marine dissolved organic carbon in the geologic past.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can we now stop saying that once suspended sediment returns to pre-event levels, then the system response is over? Great paper here with relevance to cascading hazards and landscape evolution.