Reminder: #GGA Z lecture at 7 pm this evening by @geolucyb.bsky.social, author of recent prize-winning paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... in #JournalofQuaternaryScience. For link email: galwaygeology@gmail.com
21.01.2025 10:11 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks Emma! βΊοΈ
16.01.2025 20:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thrilled that our paper has come runner up for the Dorothea Bate Prize 2024 - see the thread below for details! Well done to the winner Sean & thanks to my co-authors Paul Guyett and @magmashrew.bsky.social
You can check out our JQS paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
16.01.2025 10:00 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Collecting a peat core (segment length 50cm) for detailed analyses (August 2020; image kindly provided by Dr Lucy Blennerhassett)
#GGA lecture (Z): Irish Peat as an Atmospheric Archive
by Dr Lucy Blennerhassett (#UCD_Earth_Sci; #iCRAG), Tuesday, 21 January, at 19.00 h
Dr Lucy speaks on new techniques that interrogate the environmental archives provided by bogs in Ireland. For link email: galwaygeology@gmail.com
13.01.2025 15:38 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Congratulations to Dr Lucy Blennerhassett who passed her PhD viva today at TCD, it has been a pleasure working with you. Thanks also to examiners Gill Plunkett and Robbie Goodhue.
20.11.2023 16:40 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Since Sept. 7 1961, the Commission on Tephrochronology has been the go-to scientific home for anything tephra-related (i.e., the stuff blown into the air during a volcanic eruption). Join the community, visit our website: https://cot.iavceivolcano.org
The magazine of the Geological Society of London (@geolsoc.bsky.social), with news, views, and features for the community.
Website: https://geoscientist.online/
Pitches: geoscientist@geolsoc.org.uk
Botanist, palaeoecologist. Research interests: long-term environmental change, local and global; also archaeology, geography, history & a spot of photography
Updates from the Cambridge Tephra Lab, Dept Geography, University of Cambridge.
Geography Prof of tephra at Uni Cambridge. Thinks & teaches about Quaternary environments, volcanic ash and field/lab skills. She/her. π§ͺππβοΈ
We measure the physical, mechanical, and hydraulic properties of rocks πͺ¨
Studying how alteration influences volcanic hazards π ERC SYNERGY ROTTnROCK
Strasbourg Institute of Earth & Environment, University of Strasbourg (France)
Posts: Prof. Mike Heap
Volcanology Prof & environmental scientist at Lancaster Environment Centre | Directs Postgraduate Taught Degrees | Dad | Cumbrian | Folk 'cello | he/him | @lancasteruni.bsky.social
Geologist & author; writer on nature and science; science communicator; hiking guide at
www.naturetalesandtrails.ie - Dr in fossils;πIreland -
Bylines: https://naturetalesandtrails.ie/portfolio
Geologist interested in the energy transition, bicycling, and public service
https://bio.link/timdemko
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9125-0907
https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Timothy-Michael-Demko/15743754
Irelandβs national research centre for a sustainable, circular bioeconomy.
Professor of Creative Pedagogies | Poet | Game Designer | Slow AI
#SciComm #HigherEd #Poetry #GenAI
https://theslowai.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth
The Quaternary Research Association (QRA) is an interdisciplinary scientific organisation dedicated to researching the last 2.6 Ma BP.
https://www.qra.org.uk
Galway/W. Ireland based; informal connections to Earth & Ocean Sciences, Uni. of Galway & cognate associations on island of Ireland. Images: Connemara marble; Phanerotinus cristatus (from Tuam)
GGA is passionate about the natural environment & esp. geology
We are the LITHO3 team at Trinity College Dublin! Led by Dr. Emma Tomlinson, we are an #ERC-funded group of 2 PhD students and 3 postdocs investigating the origin of the #Archaean #lithospheric #mantle and the associated evolution of #cratonic roots
I research diamonds to learn about cratons
Geologist, Geochemist, Geochronologist.
Also Trains. π³οΈβπ
Ussher Associate Professor in Nanomineralogy
Trinity College Dublin
[Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Planetary Geology, Astrophysics]
{Asimovian, book lover, amateur astronomer}
Assistant Professor in Geochemistry Trinity College Dublin, Director of the Earth Surface Research Laboratory. Studying the architecture and dynamics of magmatic systems.
Associate Professor of Petrology at Trinity College Dublin | Love #MantleRocks and all things #Tephra | Tea drinker and trail runner. Mostly tired.