Mike C. Rowley

Inigo Virto, Isabel de Soto, Rosa M Poch, and I will be convening a session at EGU 2026 entitled:

Soil Inorganic Carbon: The overlooked component of the carbon cycle.

Please pass on the advertisement to anyone that would be interested in the session and consider submitting an abstract!

17.10.2025 08:21 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer

I'm excited to present our work on the oxalate-carbonate pathway of Kenyan Fig trees at Goldschmidt, Prague this year (Thursday 16h session 09fO1). This research has just been presented in a brief news article in New Scientist by Alex Wilkins (link below).

www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

06.07.2025 13:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

@schweizer.bsky.social

16.06.2025 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feeling scientifically energised after the Microsoil conference, a week of in-depth discussions with a fantastic team of soil scientists, focusing on microscale soil processes. Special thanks to the organising team, especially, for your hard work. Below is a lovely sun squint photo with Steffen.

16.06.2025 16:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Calcium is associated with specific soil organic carbon decomposition products Abstract. Calcium (Ca) may contribute to the preservation of soil organic carbon (SOC) in more ecosystems than previously thought. Here, we provide evidence that Ca is co-located with SOC compounds th...

I'm glad to announce our latest publication in Soil Letters, a Highlight paper that shows calcium is associated with specific carbon decomposition products across different soil types and ecosystems

soil.copernicus.org/articles/11/...

20.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It was great fun today presenting about soils and giving a general overview of carbon cycling in the Senior:innen Universität Zürich UZH3 Seminar Series. Fascinating questions!

15.04.2025 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The EGU 25 abstract deadline is 15th January. Please consider submitting to our session on soil carbon. We would love to have your contribution!!!

@mschiedung.bsky.social @schweizer.bsky.social

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08.01.2025 19:24 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Session SSS5.7

Calling all soil scientists! 🌱🌍 We invite your abstracts for our #EGU25 session: SSS5.7 - Interactions between soil carbon, mineral surfaces, and metal species across scales.
📅 Submission deadline: 15 January 2025
👉 Join us for an interesting session:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

30.12.2024 16:45 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great to be out celebrating the Festive period with our groups: The 2B and Not 2B (GCH)

09.12.2024 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Action On Pre-Eclampsia - London Marathon I am aiming to raise money for Action On Pre-Eclampsia, a charity that raises awareness, improves care, and provides vital support to mums, families, and healthcare professionals. Action On Pre-Eclamp

I'm running the London Marathon in memory of my nephew Angus, who we tragically lost to pre-eclampsia. I'm raising funds for Action on Pre-Eclampsia who support healthcare profs, families, and mums navigating similar experiences. Please consider donating to this cause via the link below. Thanks!

07.12.2024 10:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Michael!

05.12.2024 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

World Soil Day with our 1. semester Master Students of Geography and Earth System Science.

Module "GEO 463 Current challenges in plant-soil systems". Now we have the end-of-term poster sessions with interesting topics (problems and solutions). Led by @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social.

05.12.2024 14:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It was great to be back in a hutch doing synchrotron-based STXM analyses at the Softimax line in Max IV, Sweden for the C deficit project! Thanks to the excellent beam line staff and wonderful collaborative team @schweizer.bsky.social @mschiedung.bsky.social #soil #soilscience

25.11.2024 15:57 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

MAX IV synchrotron in the snow at sunset

A glimpse inside the SOPHIE end-station at SoftiMAX

Awesome teamwork in the synchrotron laboratory

At the computer adjusting the beam

Why spend day & night inside the lab in beautiful Sweden? Because synchrotron-powered STXM hopefully helps us to unravel how these agricultural soils store organic carbon. Awesome experiment at SoftiMAX in MAXIV and fantastic teamwork @mschiedung.bsky.social& @mikerowley64.bsky.social! #soilscience

23.11.2024 12:05 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

An intense week at the MAX IV in Sweden, but we produced a lot of data to understand carbon dynamics in soils across Germany using the agricultural soil inventory @thuenenaktuell.bsky.social

Great work with @schweizer.bsky.social, @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social & Luis Hurtarte. Stay tuned! 🧪

23.11.2024 16:28 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It was a spicy-icy bike back to Max IV this morning to make some more measurements with my suitcase attached to the back of the bike! A great experience all around with @schweizer.bsky.social and @mschiedung.bsky.social

22.11.2024 11:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just check out the new web page of our lab at the Department of Geography @UZH: www.geo.uzh.ch/en/services/...

23.02.2024 16:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What a joy to be doing exciting synchrotron science in a hutch again!!

We're working at Max IV in Sweden to measure incubated samples for the CDeficit project using STXM C NEXAFS @mschiedung.bsky.social

19.11.2024 21:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Session SSS5.7

We are organising a new session this year at EGU "SSS5.7 Interactions between soil carbon, mineral surfaces, and metal species across scales: mechanisms and implications" if you plan to attend please consider submitting to the session.
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

16.11.2024 12:31 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1