I’m using an ArcGIS StoryMap to document #fieldwork across #Tasmania and #NewZealand for the Southern Dustscapes project. It records sites, field observations, and sampling. Have a look if you’re interested in #Quaternary, #geomorphology, #loess or if you just want to see photos. arcg.is/XnDj10

In Tasmania’s remote southwest, dry lightning storms are starting huge conflagrations across treeless plains. Could a return to cultural burning help?

Anybody used these for outreach or in the classroom? Recommendations on where to get one?

Applications for the Leanne Armand award are now open. This award funds early and mid-career researchers based in Australia to access training in micropaleonotology. Applications are due 28th September, all details can be found on the AQUA website […]

#ansto are looking to employ an ongoing climate research scientist. Rare opportunity to join a good group :) https://careers.ansto.gov.au/job/Sydney-Research-Scientist-Climate-Science-NSW/1212088266/ #fedijobs #fedihired #Climate

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Update on the February 2026 International Conference on Geomorphology in New Zealand. We have extended the abstract deadline by 2 weeks until 13th June 2025. We have great plenary speakers, fieldtrips and young geomorphologist programme. #geomorphology #geoscience www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/

A moment of calm on a perfect day in lutruwita (Tasmania)

Australian researchers have discovered how a large mountain chain resembling the European Alps and buried deep below the East Antarctic ice sheet, grew and partly collapsed more than half a billion years ago. Read more: utas.au/mountain_chain

"The mutton birds have become so full of plastic their bellies crunch & crackle with the sound of it." @SenatorSurfer told me about this a few weeks ago. If this is not another wake up call for our rampant destruction of this planet I don't know what is www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Feeling bogged down or mired in anxiety? Consider that boglands, once equated to wastelands of misery, offer beauty and innovation. These treasures protect history as they control our climate future. With internal strength built one peat layer at a time, bogs control vast landscapes. Love the bogs.

Anthony Albanese wins 2025 federal election with Labor on track for majority

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Listen to the full episode with University of Nottingham paleoecologist @michela-mariani.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2464891

Spent the weekend hunting for wetlands! Beautiful sphagnum peatland and button grass moorland cored near Lake St Clair for the UTas PalaeoLab 🧪⛰️

Not the screen I want to see after an hour writing in a local cafe :( 🧪📝

The first open science meeting of our new COST action happens in Prague in July! We want to attract all kinds of proxies 🐘🌲🐛🪲🔥🥀🧪🌾❄️🦠 - signup this week to get funding #PalaeOpen palaeopen.github.io/events/pragu...

🌿 Don’t miss CIEHF Partner Investigator Gerry Turpin on Gardening Australia tonight! Hear his story on Country, culture & plants. Filmed at JCU’s Nguma-bada Campus, showcasing deep knowledge and care for Land and Sea Country. 📺 ABC 7:30pm | Sun 1:30pm | Stream on iView.

"But instead of pining for the past we might have to turn our focus to building the future – a future in which the scampering, bitey, ever-evolving descendants of today’s Tasmanian devils and eastern quolls (the great-great-great grand-nieces of the thylacine, 72 times removed) can thrive."

Some days in the lab are better than others! My new lab buddy arrived today 👀 🧪🥼

Applications for @AINSE_Ltd’s online Winter School are NOW OPEN to final-year undergrads from AINSE-member universities. Discover how your future Honours, Masters & PhD #research can connect to world-class facilities at @ansto.bsky.social and beyond Apply now! ainse.edu.au/winter-school/

14 years ago I hiked Tasmania’s south coast track. Crazy how this feels like only yesterday! Time for round 2🥾🥾

What a great project and team!

The Central Plateau is looking beautiful! Looking forward to going back for our biogeography field trip later this week with #UTas 🧪⛰️🚌

a beautifully written piece by Andrew Darby "And Tasmania is in a new age of fire." the fact is that we are seeing ancient Gondwana flora burn in places that have never before burnt This is climate change We must protect it like the treasure it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Gepatschferner (Kaunertal, Tirol, AT) 2020 | 2024 Demise of the largest glacier in Tirol over the last 5 years! 😱 When the landscape is evolving at a non-geological speed... 🔥 📽️ Martin Mergili (Uni Graz), Stefan Haselberger (Uni Wien/PHUSICOS)

New Job Opportunity - Research Fellow (Palaeoecology/Geography) at ANU The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is seeking a Research Fellow to join its ANU Node in Canberra Details in the attached link. For inquiries: [email protected]

Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology to join our interdisciplinary research team at The University of Melbourne. 🔗 jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91951...

#SciPubTas Inspiring Women In STEMM event is on at #DeepSouthBrewing at 530pm today. @utas.edu.au facebook.com/events/s/ins...

A peaceful morning at my favourite beach 🏖️

How about some botany for a change? Raindrops on drosera (sundew). Such pretty plants, if you look closely. Spring Gully Conservation Park, Clare Valley.

Enjoying a quiet weekend around Huonville after a busy start to the Semester. Great to be back in the classroom and see students on campus again 🧪🌏🏔️

New postdoc in Australian archaeology from Sydney University #auatralianarchaeology #coastalarchaeology #archaeomalacology

Horrendous fire weather in Tasmania / Lutruwita at moment, especially the west coast, World Heritage wilderness area and local towns. Cold change with rain can’t come fast enough 😳

A bit warm in Hobart today. Hoping the rain forecast for later tonight can help with the fires burning in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area 🔥

WiSH workshop was a lot of fun! Need another reason to come back to NZ soon. Thanks to #INQUA and all participants

What a great group of people! Some ok glacial landscapes in the background too.

What a brilliant initiative!

Day 2 of the WISH workshop wasn’t all hard work. Beautiful glacial landscapes around Cass! Find out more about our #INQUA funded workshop here: warmintervalssh.wordpress.com

Great first day at the WISH workshop at the University of Canterbury field station at Cass. Haidee Cadd inspired us with a brilliant talk on quantifying change points and trends in #paleoclimate records. Looking forward to day 2! #climatechange #geoscience #paleoecology

Warm Intervals in the Southern Hemisphere (WiSH) workshop as for our #INQUA funded project in Cass, NZ. Brilliant group in a beautiful location! Find out more: warmintervalssh.wordpress.com

A quick trip to Cradle Mountain!

landscaperecovery.com.au/mjk-memorial... First round open!

Hard to stay in the office when the sun is shining down on kunanyi today (which I can just see from my office if I climb onto the desk). Hope some of you are out there enjoying the alpine zone 💁‍♀️⛰️🧪

Just over a year to the International Conference on Geomorphology in #Christchurch New Zealand. Please put it in your diaries and we hope to see you down here in beautiful #Aotearoa. With the exchange rate on the NZ dollar the conference will be very affordable. www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/chri...

Number of snacks needed for a day of marking is somewhat higher than the number of snacks I have in the office 😭#academicproblems

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history theconversation.com/new-excavati... Full text of the article by @carolinedigs.bsky.social and colleagues published in @austarchj.bsky.social available at: doi.org/10.1080/0312...

New year same me buried under marking and wondering when I can get back to the lab 🧪 💁‍♀️

In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world #HappyNewYear2025 theconversation.com/in-2025-lets...

Tiny flowers peaking out of a cushion plant (Donatia novae-zelandiae) near Hartz Mountain 🥰