Jackie Webb

Celebrating a 100 citation (Google Scholar) milestone for my pub on N2O sinks in farm dams!

Truly one of the most exciting datasets I've had the pleasure to work with and has profoundly altered the direction of my research. Still searching for answers!

Pub link 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Quick trip to Brisbane this week to attend the 20th World Lake Conference.

It was a pleasure to be a part of the International Colloquium to explore global challenges facing lake systems. There was much agreement on including youth at all stages of integrated water management.

Recently, I did a little radio piece for ABC Southern Queensland Breakfast to explain where water flows after heavy rainfall and how Australia’s catchment systems operate.

👉If you're interested, you can listen to the interview here tinyurl.com/4b6vu678

Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems - Nature Using a global database of the radiocarbon content of rivers combining new and published measurements, isotopic mass balance suggests that about 60% of river CO2 emissions are derived from millennial ...

🌏Using a global database of the radiocarbon content of rivers, isotopic mass balance suggests that about 60% of river carbon dioxide from millennial or older carbon sources

Read the latest research article published in Nature by our former external editor, Joshua Dean
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No advert out yet, but I will recruiting a 2yr postdoc, start date autumn 2025, at @livunigeog.bsky.social soon. Lowland and upland peatlands, GHGs, DOM and water chemistry. Plenty of fieldwork. Feel free to drop me a DM or email if you might be interested, and please spread the word.

Oh yes, I'm definitely adding goggly eyes to my floating saucers next time!

The day has arrived - first lecture for my brand new course, Catchment and Water Management. After many months and nights of work leading up to this moment, I'm nervous and excited to offer this course. Here's hoping the students appreciate it and there are not too many kinks to iron out!

Thanks Luke! Being out in the rain measuring thing made me reminescent of my early research days

Reading student feedback on my 2nd year ecology course:
"As a result of this course I am analysing my environment, noticing more interactions in nature and taking a more interested approach to bush walks and nature play with my children."
My job's done here, guys!🥲
#teaching #academia #ecology

How cool! A paper with my UofR crew has just been recognised as a #TopViewedArticle
Artificial water bodies are interesting!

Link to the paper:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Recreational ditch

The students are now equipped with 7 sites worth of water quality data for their final assessment. I wonder what changes in water quality they will find as the rain consistently fell over the 3 days. The final highlight was all the amazing speakers of water professionals.

We explored the full water catchment system within Toowoomba. From water supply to urban streams, to potable and wastewater treatment, to farm creeks and irrigation, the students developed an appreciation for the complex challenges and societal needs that water managers face in today's climate.

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting our @soaes-unisq.bsky.social undergrad students studying Water Science during the WAT1101 residential school. In true Toowoomba style, the students had the full immersion experience, with consistent rain during the entire 3 days of our field tour.

Still, not sure why someone would want to impersonate me. Hopefully bluesky deals with the account soon!

Hi everyone
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Very interesting indeed. If there's a will there's a way.

A visiting group of students from Northwest University studying agriculture and water resources spent a day doing water science with me. We made our own Secchi discs and had a lovely time out on the campus stormwater pond. Not much clarity today but the turtles didn't mind! @soaes-unisq.bsky.social

I've had three as well in the past week...

The people who produce this Mauna Loa atmospheric CO₂ record have a lab in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, about 50 miles (80 km) from the observatory. By closing the lab, it'll be really difficult to maintain the CO₂ observations.

The Importance of Ditches and Canals in Global Inland Water CO2 and N2O Budgets We synthesized data across global climate zones to show, for the first time, that global ditches and canals emit notable amounts of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, at higher per area rates than pon....

CSAS researcher @jackiewebb.bsky.social is part of an international team who has completed the first global synthesis of CO2 and N2O emissions from ditches and canals. Check out this critically important research work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Welcome to Food/ClimateSky!

- sharing silly thoughts is called “manureposting”

- we don’t say “lol” or “lmao” we say “N₂O” or “N₂OOOO”

- like methane, our posts are forgotten relatively quickly but are 80 times more potent than others’ posts over a 20-year time period

Happy to have contributed to this global ditch paper by @tksilver.bsky.social and @peatymike.bsky.social! Great to see CO2 and N2O getting some of the attention in anthropogenic aquatic emissions. Put it on your reading list folks 📖

The Importance of Ditches and Canals in Global Inland Water CO2 and N2O Budgets We synthesized data across global climate zones to show, for the first time, that global ditches and canals emit notable amounts of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, at higher per area rates than pon...

📣 Our new study is out now! The importance of ditches and canals in global inland water CO2 and N2O budgets @globalchangebio.bsky.social @peatymike.bsky.social @jackiewebb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Really happy to see this paper out. Fantastically led by @tksilver.bsky.social and with an all-star supporting cast!

Sharing on behalf of my ex-postdoc supervisor Prof Kerri Finlay - two advertisements for graduate student and postdoctoral fellowship positions available at the University of Regina. There are so many amazing research questions within this long-term dataset to work on.

Ah ok. Are you going to try and publish it elsewhere? A colleague mentioned about the publication option for teaching related things to me once and that it can be much easier to achieve than scientific research outputs.

Oh no! Curious about what reason you had to submit to an mdpi journal on the first place? Faster review process?

Was great to be involved! I was impressed with how quickly @tksilver.bsky.social led this collaborative paper

Fantastic Friday news! Our new paper led by @tksilver.bsky.social accepted in Global Change Biology:

"The importance of ditches and canals in global inland water CO2 and N2O budgets"

An all-star cast of authors including @jackiewebb.bsky.social and many others not (yet) on Blue Sky.