This week marked the first in-person gathering of the Geoscience and Offshore Wind Joint Industry Programme, a collaboration between Geosolutions Leeds, RWE, SSE Renewables and Vattenfall; at the @geolsoc.bsky.social offshore wind ground modelling conference.

Today's environment page lead: Yorkshire researchers warn on the looming loss of the vital carbon sink and wildlife havens that are the UK's saltmarshes. Thanks to @proftashabarlow.bsky.social and @edtgarrett.bsky.social @theyorkshirepost.bsky.social www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...

Great to chat to @michaelcrossland.bsky.social at the Yorkshire Post about the vital role that saltmarshes play in storing carbon. In today's paper with comment from @proftashabarlow.bsky.social and me.

Well as it appears this is now very much the place to be, I thought I’d better log back in. And see I’ve got nearly 700 followers despite not really being here! 👋🏻 all. I’ll try and engage a bit better.

We are recruiting a fully-funded PhD studentship for a 2024 start on "Advanced 3D ground modelling workflows to support the sustainable development of offshore windfarms" at the University of Leeds, supported by industry. Please circulate. phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1963...

Logging off for some much-needed downtime, until 2nd January. If you are celebrating Christmas, I hope you also have a good festive break.

After 2+ years since floating the idea, including a knockback, and a lot of time and effort by a big team - major funding proposal submitted. Time for a lie down (or catch up with my exploding inbox....). Big thanks to Water@Leeds for all the support.

So proud of Oliver Pollard, getting his very first academic published today, as part of RISeR - an absolute testament to the high quality of his research: "Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (MIS 6)" tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Sorry I am totally ignoring any emails at the moment. Email yesterday that suggested we try and submit a funding proposal early due to anticipated software issues, has slightly sent me into overdrive this week. I will come back to you next week (once I have had a long lie down!).

Interested in the timing of Quaternary environmental change; want to pioneer a new chronological framework; like lab work? Come & do a PhD with us, plus Christine Lane of Cambridge + Dutch colleagues, developing a NW European regional tephra chronostratigraphy. panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/the...