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!

Delighted to have @climatesamwell.bsky.social visiting us and giving this week’s School seminar

🌏 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/