📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field. 🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026 Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Are you interested in climate? Do you have a background in maths, physics, climate science, or a related field? Would you like an office half a mile from the beach? If the answer to most of those is yes, you might be interested in this PhD project at St Andrews. @earthscista.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ed Stephens, who has been offered a position as Honorary Professor! Ed joined St Andrews in 1972 and “retired” in 2005. But since then, his work on applying geochemical methods to tobacco research and exploring the health impacts of vaping, has had outstanding impact.

📣 New paper with Lorenzo Polvani published in @agu.org GRL! Increasing Frequency and Persistence of the Summertime Greenland High Regime Not Captured by a Seasonal Prediction Model Very Large Ensemble Open access: doi.org/10.1029/2025... @earthscista.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu

Welcome to Bluesky @geobus-sta.bsky.social! 👋

Our very own Prof. Adrian Finch (www.adrianfinch.co.uk) has been visiting Greenland for more than 3 decades. With Greenland and its mineral wealth now thrust into the spotlight, listen to Adrian talk about Greenland's 'rare earth elements' on BBC Inside Science www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Open full Professor position in beautiful Scotland…

Heavy snowfall events will occur throughout the 21st century, despite global warming ❄️⛄⛷️ Reason is non-intuitive and relates to the existence of an 'optimal' temp for heavy snow that is insensitive to warming (details: www.nature.com/articles/nat...) #climate #snow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tropical Temperature Distributions Over a Wide Range of Climates 🌡️🥵 Using theory + sims, we explore how temperature PDFs respond to climate change over land vs ocean. Work led by Josh Duffield! @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ametsoc.org journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Fancy working somewhere with views like this less than a 10 min walk from your office? Are you an outstanding scholar of international standing within the field of Earth and environmental sciences? This could be the job for you: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

🚨Professorship at St Andrews🚨 We are recruiting a Professor in Earth Sci (incl atmos, oceans, climate) @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Ideal candidate is a leading researcher with interests in impact/outreach. Deadline 23/3/26! www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Great department, beautiful spot!

Brand-new chaired professorship, in any subdiscipline, at our School. Limited teaching and admin responsibilities so you can focus on research and impact!

📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field. 🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026 Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

🚨Out today, acidification of the California Current🚨 Using corals and models we show regionally amplified acidification, due to the combo of CO2 uptake and remineralisation. This highlights potential risks to productive upwelling zones in an acidifying ocean 🌊🧪⚒️📈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper alert! ☁️ We define a diagnostic of convective entrainment in GCMs and investigate how this diagnosed value is connected to CAPE extremes and moist heatwaves in the tropics. You can find our paper in WCD, co-written with Marty Singh. doi.org/10.5194/wcd-...

Had a great time at the first Scottish Climate Conference last week! Big thanks to @annamackie.bsky.social and Alex Chaudhri for organising. Excited to see the event continue going forward!

Really enjoyed this, was great to have so many people attend, present and discuss some of the exciting climate science happening in Scotland. Looking forward to the next one!

On 4–5 December, we hosted the inaugural meeting of the Scottish Climate Science Network! More than 40 researchers from 7 different institutions in Scotland met here in SEES to share research, discuss collaborations and plan for future advancements of climate science in Scotland.

A couple of weeks ago, we loved hosting Laura Poppick here at St Andrews for "Layers in Time"! She shared deep time musings with Marcia Bjornerud, explored geology & art, public engagement, and yes… favourite rocks 🪨💬 Read more: laurapoppick.substack.com/p/deep-time-...

🎉 Huge congratulations to Eva Stüeken for being awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant! “Quantifying the limits of early life through the biogeochemical phosphorus redox cycle” This win not only celebrates Eva 👏 but also highlights our school’s strength — 6 ERC grants in the last decade! 🚀

⚒️ Perspective: The oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere about 2.45-2.30 billion years ago may have initiated in the oxidised bottom waters of marine shelves @earlylife.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see our perspective in print! Chad, Eva, and I suggest that geological and genomic records support the idea that Earth’s first oxygenated habitats formed on the seafloor, especially in shallow benthic settings along continental shelves #geobiology #astrobiology @earthscista.bsky.social

Excited to attend the inaugural Scottish Climate Conference! Organised by @annamackie.bsky.social and Alex Chaudhri, the event will take place over the next two days @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #climate #science

A little summary by the BBC of our work at Durrington intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...

Interested in gaining real industry experience, world-class training, and the skills to tackle global environmental challenges? Check out our MSc in Environmental Science! 🌍 Apply here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/ear...

Huge congrats to Eva Stüeken on being elected to the Council of the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG)! See the announcement on the @eageo.bsky.social website: www.eag.org/about/govern...

Interested in gaining real industry experience, world-class training, and the skills to tackle global environmental challenges? Check out our MSc in Environmental Science! 🌍 Apply here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/ear...

Looking forward to this event this afternoon!

We are convening an EGU 2026 session on the large-scale atmospheric circulation in past, present and future climates! Always a fun and vibrant session, abstract deadline is 15th Jan 💨🌎 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

🚨New paper on heatwaves in a net zero world 🚨 In our study, led by @sarahinscience.bsky.social, we find that the intensity, length and frequency of heatwaves do not return to pre-industrial levels under net zero - and in many regions barely improve at all. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Two great days at the Rock and Spindle – just down the Fife coast from St Andrews – where our first years were exploring a Carboniferous volcanic plumbing system cutting through the swampy deltaic sediments. The weather held until the last hour on Sunday, so we’ll take that as a win! ☔🪨

Join geologists and authors Prof Marcia Bjornerud & Laura Poppick in conversation with Dr Claire Cousins as they uncover the stories written in Earth’s deep history. 🗓 Thu 20 Nov, 1–2:30pm 📍 St Andrews Episcopal Church 🎟 Free but ticketed: layersoftime.eventbrite.com

🚨🌡️🔥🌍🌤️🚨 New paper alert in J. Climate from the Climate Dynamics Lab @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social: Tropical temperature distributions over a wide range of climates: theory and idealized simulations journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Apparently Hurricane Melissa was "engineered" as part of a land-clearing plot to build smart cities in Jamaica 🤔 Here is my attempt, via BBC Verify, to douse this conspiracy nonsense with some science facts: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

🧭 Off to the Carboniferous! 🌿🌴 Dr Rhodri Jerrett (SEES) with Dr Alex Whittaker and Jonah McLeod (Imperial College London) are in the Appalachian Basin investigating the paleohydraulics of ancient tropical rivers 🌊🌴. They’re uncovering how peaty floodplains influenced these mighty systems. 🪨🧳🥾

🐚 Fossils of Fife Field Trip! ⛏️ Our Second Year students explored Carboniferous sediments and Fife’s fossil record, measuring their first independent stratigraphic log 🔍📏 Two field days — one ☀️, one 🌧️ — some lucky, others came back with very soggy notebooks! 😅📒

Our own Prof. Adrian Finch describes his journey to become a geologist – including working in hurricane-force winds in Greenland, which still didn't deter his passion for understanding the Earth Hear his story on Geologists from Planet Earth: geologistsfromplanetearth.buzzsprout.com/2502584/epis...

Excited to be visiting @universityofleeds.bsky.social today! I will discuss our research on the physics of tropical land in a changing climate, including hot-off-the-server results suggesting a drier future than climate models predict @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @earthscista.bsky.social

The September 2025 Hydrological Summary for the UK has been published. This puts the rainfall, river flows, groundwater levels and reservoir stocks data into historical context. Read it here [PDF]: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... #hydrology #water #rivers 🧪

From St Andrews you can see a striking inversion looking north towards the Tay. Bright sunshine in Fife, thick cloud in Dundee.

5 million of them are about research

The Tabula Project preview opened last night at St Andrews Botanic Gardens. Starting today, 3 online roundtables will explore how we rethink our perceptions of the climate crisis with artist & Greener Vision CEO Claire Haigh. Learn more + register: https://ow.ly/2Vfm50XaTw8 #EverToExcel

Our first years headed out on their first field trip to Ruddons Point on the Fife coast this weekend – diving into Quaternary landscape evolution & sea level changes! Plenty of sunshine on the Saturday trips, but Sunday morning brought the haar (and not just the 'haar haar' response to staff jokes)

Join Prof Adrian Finch at The Tabula Project: Clearing Obstructions, an event by @energy-ethics.bsky.social. Adrian will bring the perspective of an Earth Scientist, showing how the geology of resources underpins discussions about net zero and climate change. www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Whoops, here's one which does: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7.... Thanks for checking @earthscista.bsky.social!

🧊Our researchers have just finished analysing ancient Antarctic ice spanning 1.2 million years of climate history! The Beyond EPICA project extends the ice core climate record by 400,000 years, helping us to understand long-term climate patterns and improve future predictions.

Over the last six weeks, SEES scientists Mengwen, Patrick, Helen & Andrea jointed the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, which aims to analyse the oldest ice on Earth – up to 1.5 million years old, beyond the 800,000 years previously covered – to understand more about Earth's climate 🧊🧪🥼 @bas.ac.uk

Had a great time at the NCAS Climate Modelling Summer School in Cambridge this year! 🌏 Huge thanks to the organisers and all the wonderful speakers. Would highly recommend!