🌏 Say g’day to SEES' Prof. Richard White 🏜️🎓 His PhD involved spending weeks utterly alone in Australia's central desert. 🎧 Hear his fascinating field story on Geologists from Planet Earth: www.buzzsprout.com/2502584/epis...

Shankle et al. show how a better- #Ventilated #NorthPacific could have reduced the #ocean-carbon upwelled in the #SouthernOcean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on #SouthernOcean biogeochemistry in #GlacialTimes. #ice-ages @earthscista.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New paper on Southern Ocean CO2🚨 Using a suite of Earth system models, Maddie Shankle et al show that better ventilation of intermediate waters in the North Pacific ends up reducing outgassing of CO2 in the Southern Ocean 🌊🧪⚒️🧵 @earthscista.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last week, our 4th year Environmental Earth Science students were at Loch Etive, getting hands-on experience collecting data for investigating water column profiles & overturning events. Led by Drs James Barnet & @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social & supported back in the lab by @oceanicandrea.bsky.social.

Applications for Geology Field Camp in Scotland 2026, running from 9 June to 13 July 2026, are now OPEN! Spaces are limited and fill fast, so get your applications in early! Find out more and apply here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc....

St Andrews top in Scotland and second in the UK in the @theguardian.com University Guide 2026 🎉 Maths, History, and International Relations take the top spot in the new rankings with a further 16 subjects ranking in the top 10 🎉 Read more 👇 ow.ly/hzCj50WWe9R #EverToExcel

Meet the motley crew of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – ready to kick off the new academic year! 🌍👋 Special mention to our Head of School, Prof. Rob Wilson, who is cleverly disguised a a responsible adult (the T-shirt says it all) 😅🤦‍♂ www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc...

🌍 Welcome to Earth Sciences at St Andrews! 👋 A huge welcome to all our new students – and a big welcome back to our returning students! We’re thrilled to have you with us. Get ready to (re)discover the dynamic planet we call home – from rocks 🪨 to oceans 🌊 volcanoes 🌋and climate change 🌡️

Big congratulations to @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social & team on securing funding to launch the St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climates! 🌍 📈 The centre will take an interdisciplinary approach, harnessing the breadth of expertise across St Andrews news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/the-...

We had a fantastic research 'away day' at East Sands in St Andrews, where we discussed the future of extreme temperatures as part of GLOBAL-EX project. A lunchtime swim + cheese toasties on the beach was an added bonus! @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

In case you missed it... Yesterday we announced the new 2025 ERC Starting Grant winners. 478 early-career researchers will be pushing the frontiers of science - from cancer and mental health to quantum breakthroughs. 👉 europa.eu/!89nG4M 5 explain what this funding means for their work & careers.👇

A real honor to be able to help out with this. An absolute gutter ball that it is required. Kudos to @andrewdessler.com for exemplary leadership, @bobkopp.net for helping pull it together, and to all coauthors for resisting in our own way.

#ICP16 will be hosted by St Andrews, Scotland @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social thank you. We had two pitches from Cardiff and St Andrews. 🙏🏼

A true pleasure to be visiting National Taiwan University this week, alongside Ioana Colfescu @ncas-uk.bsky.social, as part of our project on stratosphere-troposphere coupling & machine learning, funded jointly by @uniofstandrews.bsky.social & NTU. The hospitality and the food has been outstanding!

🎉 Big news! Dr Hana Jurikova has won a €2.5 million @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for CarbonDIOs – a groundbreaking project to reconstruct 500 million years of Earth's atmospheric CO2 & ocean pH. Well done Hana! This also marks our School's 5th ERC grant in 10 years! 🌍🔬🧪

Welcoming anyone willing to fact check me on this — ironically, I don’t want to get it wrong.

Are you struggling to #write about your #research for a non-specialist audience? Don't miss this #webinar on best practices and techniques in academic writing to help you communicate and engage more efficiently with the #general #public. 🔗 Register here: egu.eu/8DDSBL

The University of St Andrews has been named Scottish University of the Year in the Daily Mail University Guide. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙌 Read more ⬇️ ow.ly/KhY150WFXo1 #EverToExcel

Are you a researcher, policymaker or professional working in climate science, environmental policy and sustainability? 📆 Save the date for 29 and 30 September. 📸 Paul Holland, BAS

Paul Whincup (BSc 1962) was one of just three students in his Geology honours class @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. The trio bonded on their first day and remained lifelong friends. Read on as Paul recalls his four years in St Andrews and reunions beyond: alumni.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/08/20/f...

Scotland is under a wildfire warning 🔥🌡️, fuelled by a very dry spring. I talked to BBC World at One about wildfires in Scotland which involve humans behaving badly, grouse shooting, and more than a hint of climate change. From 27min 25sec: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @earthscista.bsky.social

SEES scientists @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social and @simonleewx.com among those who contributed to this year's State of the Climate update ⬇️

Me, @codeandcurrents.bsky.social, and ChatGPT had an excellent time vibe-coding our way to an assessment of the citations in the DOE's "critical review" of climate science. A wee 🧵 of highlights... 1/n

🧵 2/2 🗣️ 30-min talk + 30-min Q&A each James Rae (Reader, University of St Andrews). “Refining reconstructions of atmospheric CO₂ and climate sensitivity from climates of the past” Jessica Tierney (Professor, University of Arizona). “Estimating climate sensitivity from the paleoclimate record”

📅 Save the Date: 10 Sept 2025, 17:00 CEST 🎉 Webinar #3 in the #ClimateOfThePast 20th anniversary series! 🌍 Topic: How sensitive is Earth's climate to CO₂? 🧠 Two experts dive into past climate to help us understand future warming. 🎙️ Speakers: Rae & Tierney 🧵 1/2 👇

Are you looking to gain experience with peer review of scientific manuscripts? After two very successful editions, #EGU is once again offering our Members FREE #PeerReview Training! 📆 Application deadline: 31 July 2025. Apply Now and make full use of many participation benefits! 🔗: egu.eu/6DU4E4

HUGE kudos to fantastic former @earthscista.bsky.social PhD student @mollytrudgill.bsky.social for leading this work, @carbonatefan.bsky.social for ushering us in to the rock record and being generally the best, and an amazing team including several @uniofstandrews.bsky.social BSc/MSc co-authors

🚨New paper just out on environmental upset at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary🚨 Using boron isotopes in fossil oysters, we find a major pulse of ocean acidification and CO2 rise, driving global warming and delaying ecosystem recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction rdcu.be/ev6XV 🧪🌊⚒️🐚🧵

Thanks to Shih-Ni Zhou, a research student from National Taiwan University, for visiting me & Ioana Colfescu for the last three weeks as part of a joint St Andrews–NTU seed funding project. Exciting work on SSWs and ML! @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social @earthscista.bsky.social

Today and tomorrow afternoon is our annual PGR conference, where our PhD students present some of their fantastic research to the School. It’s wonderful to learn about the diverse range of research going on here in SEES! 🤩

Igneous rocks… as a source of bioavailable nitrogen? 👀 First co-author paper is out! Give it a look: www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2517/

Delighted to have played a small part in Galloway et al's research on nitrogen cycling in geothermal springs at @earthscista.bsky.social. More here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alongside some behind-the-scenes shots from fieldwork

Wonderful to be back (at a very soggy) @harvard.edu for the Continental Climate Workshop, where I gave a talk about elevation-dependent warming over land. It has been a bittersweet visit, given the unsettling and escalating situation at Harvard. Thinking about all those affected 🌍

New research! rdcu.be/emGpq We use Si and Ti isotope compositions of ancient continental crust to infer that continents started to poke their heads above sea-level (so providing nutrients to the oceans and mediating atmospheric CO₂) ~3.8-3.6 billion years ago. @earthscista.bsky.social @unibe.ch

Kickstart your career with the MSc in Environmental Science – designed to transform skilled students into work-ready professionals. Supported by Women in Mining and the Mining Institute of Scotland Trust, with a range of scholarships available More details: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/ear...

One of our motivations for writing this was a prevalent misconception that blocking systems are becoming more common. They aren’t. They’re projected to become less frequent. However, the hot and dry spring is consistent with climate change. @ncas-uk.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Congratulations to Mind Chomhom who has been awarded the Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC 🎉 Mind completed her PhD at St Andrews earlier this year.

Our second ES1002 trip returned this weekend, with another ~50 students completing their first residential field trip! Although there were no sunny dips in the sea this time, the students still had plenty of water quality, climate and geological measurements to get stuck into.

Attending the amazing 'Philosophy of Climate Science' workshop @uniofstandrews.bsky.social this week! Today I gave a talk on 'Theory and the future of (land-)climate science'. Want to know more? Checkout the paper: rdcu.be/dWEZI @earthscista.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social

Proud to be adding a biologist's angle to the research on ancient Earth that is going on here!

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We're the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Our research spans the formation of planets to climate change. Our teaching is consistently ranked among the top in the UK for Earth Sciences 🌍🪐🌋🌡️ Find out more: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc...