Mary Bourke

PhD scholarship available in modelling water quality NbS measures. info here earthandplanetary.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/p...

PhD scholarship available in modelling water quality NbS measures. info here earthandplanetary.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/p...

Understanding extreme-wave hazards on high-energy coasts requires a standardised approach to field data collection: Analysis and recommendations Abstract. Coastal boulder deposits provide vital information on extreme wave events. They are crucial for understanding storm and tsunami impacts on rocky coasts, and for understanding long-term hazar...

A community effort by #ISROC network to standardise field data collection in coastal boulder research - funded by #NSF - starring Rónadh Cox @megafloods.bsky.social @tsunamiboulder.bsky.social @shoreplatform.bsky.social 🪨⛏️🛰️📸 #preprint #NHESS @egu.eu @nh.egu.eu

doi.org/10.5194/egus...

The #isroc global database for coastal boulder deposits is up and running doi.org/10.17603/ds2...

Read about it in #marinegeology
authors.elsevier.com/c/1l6bq5mVe1...

I was so proud to listen to my 4 undergrad students deliver their first National conference presentation at the Geomorphological Association of Ireland meeting.

We are in the field this week collecting baseline data with our drone.

🪧The launch of the STRATA project website. Funded by @geolsurvie.bsky.social . We are assessing the potential of Sentinal 1 data to detect coastal rockfalls. sites.google.com/view/stratap...

Please spread the word🙏. #climate #forestry #wind #solar #farming

Enjoying the lecture and panel discussion tonight at the
The Road Irish academy thanks @seismatters.bsky.social for a thought provoking discussion.

We need responses from Ireland's researchers and land managers on this survey about #NbS for #floods in a #ClimateEmergency

Survey link: bit.ly/4iozHzQ

Stones wedged between wave-worn groyne logs

Sea defences near Rosslare Strand, Ireland.

“You might think that the sea is company,
Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs,
But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits
The very windows, spits like a tame cat
Turned savage.”
Seamus Heaney (Storm on the Island)
#BSGAC24 @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social

🧪⚒️ “I doubt that it is a coincidence that 2024 has seen exceptional global atmospheric and sea surface temperatures, and as a consequence there have been very high peak rainfall intensities”

Women Advancing River Research Lecture Series January announcement Hot water: Integrated modeling for watershed fire impacts & in-stream thermal habitats speakers: Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwestern Lab & Alison Appling, US Geological Survey Jan 16, 11 AM eastern standard time register here: https://www.cee.psu.edu/events/women-advancing-river-research.aspx

🧪⚒️Join us online for the 1st #WARR of 2025. This month: #wildfire #impacts on #stream #ecosystems #WomenInSTEM
16 Jan, 11 AM ET
Xingyuan Chen + Alison Appling
Join us for two short talks & a lively Q&A
Register here: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

Research Assistant/Associate Weather Generator Research Assistant/Associate Weather Generator

We're hiring a Research Assistant/Associate to join the team @UniofNewcastle!

They will work on the development of a weather generator to downscale climate projections over the UK and Ireland.

More details and apply here: https://buff.ly/40iYRsX
📅 Deadline: 2nd Feb 2025

The first sherd of sunlight entering Newgrange megalithic structure

And here it starts....the first light pushing inwards, seeding the new summer to come. It's beautiful, this day we connect to people 5000 years ago. No other profession can say that. It's why archaeologist4lyfe.darkbess can only come in so far. Then light wins.

BLESSED SOLSTICE .

Congratulations! The breath and depth of knowledge communicated in the series was remarkable.

We are poking the sleeping bear of permafrost thaw with a short stick.

Last year in the Arctic Circle was the 2nd warmest since 1900. The nine warmest years have been the last nine years.

The Arctic tundra is now a net emitter of greenhouse gases, not a sink.

Great news, but what took them so long? A true Irish art

Check out our latest newsletter for research highlights from
Tim Baxter, Matthew Fox & Jin-Gen Dai, updates from our new president and sub-committees and to find out how to enter our newly defined art competition - which you can now enter on bluesky! #BSGAC24 geomorphology.org.uk/app/uploads/... 🏔️🪨

Beautiful weather yesterday to assess the geomorphic response of soft cliffs on Ireland’s east coast to #StormBert

Our Nature Based Solutions for Floods are in action today during #StormBert . Iv'e posted a short blog here: tinyurl.com/26dytdxe

Farming For Nature Mayo farmer Sinéad Moran, one of the earlier ambassadors of the Farming For Nature scheme, speaks about what she has learned and how the scheme helped her business. And we look at the new handbook by ...

Just one example of what Farming For Nature has to teach the rest of us.
Sinead Moran from Gleann Bui Farm near Knock, Co Mayo shared this and more wisdom on Countrywide yesterday.
Listen 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

An ERA5 animation showing the unprecedented November 2024 Typhoon outbreak in the Western Pacific Ocean.

Just incredible.

Advert for the BSG seminar series on 2nd December. The talk is called Follow the Water: incorporating hydrology and geomorphology into estimate of malaria environmental suitability

#Hydrology and #geomorphology can help us better understand environmental suitability for #malaria transmission. I’m excited to give this BSG seminar in two weeks with examples of our research from the last decade. That pic of me itself is at least a decade old 😂

Wind blowing sand off the crest of a 30 m high dune in the Namib Sand Sea

Text from website - visit here https://www.pages2025.org.cn/Data/List/Sessions

Thinking of heading to #Pages2025 7th Open Science Meeting, Shanghai? Have an interest in all things windy? 💨
Session 17 might be the one for you
Abstract deadline is approaching Dec 1st, 2024

www.pages2025.org.cn/Data/List/Se...

#aeolian #eolian #drylands #landscape #geomorphology #Quaternary

Naturefile - RTÉ Podcasts Naturefile is a celebratory journey to the lesser-known realms of nature in Ireland with Anja Murray. With surprising stories uncovered each week, about everything from lichens to trees, Swallows to S...

Have a listen to the back catalogue of my weekly radio slot, Nature File on RTE lyric fm, exploring the lesser known realms of nature in Ireland, each 7 mins long.

Described by @hannahdaly.bsky.social as "a lovely & accessible celebration of Ireland's nature"
www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky It’s not just an Alf pics repository.

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.

Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

Time to start planning for #EGU25 ! Work on any aspect of riverscape restoration? Submit to session GM10.2. Deadline is Jan 15th but never too early! Early career scientists can apply for support if submit by Dec 2nd.

Tafoni, structures produced by salt weathering of sandstones near the coast

Tafoni, structures produced by salt weathering of sandstones near the coast

Tafoni, structures produced by salt weathering of sandstones near the coast

Tafoni, structures produced by salt weathering of sandstones near the coast

Free trypophobia

Tatsukushi coast, Shikoku, Japan ⚒️🧪🗾

#tafoni #honeycombweathering #geology