Iain Robertson (inactive)

We want to hear about your exciting research using biochar to help resolve environmental problems! Please consider submitting a paper to this special issue of Sustainability: mdpi.com/si/246969 #mdpisustainability via @Sus_MDPI

@ScoutedSam For me the key would be in the question - cover differences (land development, management, commercial) AND anthropogenic influences - as well as BRIEFLY covering the basics on the C cycle (short/long timescales etc). Focus upon the question. Tough one. Good luck....

@ScoutedSam Ouch! Degree level question? I guess the key here is what is an urban woodland - presumably their definition will be something like trees growing in/near a city - clearly, a fragmented forest, probably younger than their rural counterparts which changes C sequestration etc.

@DocIsotopes the eldest is just writing his A Level Geography NEA proposal…any pointers most welcome! 🙏🌳🌲

@pawarsayali20 @DrSarahHalliday Congratulations! @pawarsayali20

🌞 Started my viva with the sun up and finished by sunset 🌅and I’m overjoyed to announce that I passed my #phdviva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to my fantastic supervisory team @DrSarahHalliday Dr Miriam Glendel and Dr Paola Ovando. (1/3)🧵

The NHS might be struggling right now, but thank goodness no one in the UK will be asked to pay $807.96 for insulin. We must never stop fighting to keep it that way.

Alas, plastic waste is everywhere! There's an amazing opportunity for a postdoc to join our team @swanseageog @SUSciEng investigating promising ways of removing nano- & micro-plastics from water on a 3-year @LeverhulmeTrust project. DDL: 25 August 2024: swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swanse…

Amazing PhD on "Refining the chronology and palaeoclimatology of Chaco Canyon using stable isotope chronology" - some eligibilty requirements - deadline 8 July 2024 @treeringsociety @TreeRingATR @TreeRingLabUA @SUSciEng tinyurl.com/PhD-Chaco-Cany…

Giant sequoia trees are thriving in the UK, growing at a similar rate to those in California, the tree’s native home. #Echobox=1711044092" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/242192…

Three different mines, three different histories, one thing in common - sustained input of metals into rivers. My latest paper is now out in the Journal of Hydrology, looking at #Nantymwyn, #Frongoch and #ParysMountain metal mines: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We’re recruiting! 👷‍♀️We have a number of exciting opportunities between May & September for people to come & join our Environmental monitoring teams across Wales and assist with their monitoring programmes this summer 🐟 Send your CV to: Debra.Davies@pertemps.co.uk

@WelshAmbulance are currently training voluntary Community First Responders. It's an amazing opportunity to make a difference to your local community: ambulance.nhs.wales/get-involved/w…

Sunny dendro-day @WythamWoods - shame the squirrels like the dendrometers as much as we do @SUSciEng @swanseageog

Interested in reconstructing past explosive volcanism then come to work with us….. Research Officer - Tephrochronology/Volcanology at Swansea University jobs.ac.uk/job/DFZ914/res…

Water, water everywhere... great day @BIFoRUoB collecting samples and checking on dendrometers! So it rains a lot in the UK! @SUSciEng @swanseageog

Delighted to see my first paper of 2024 in @EnvSciRSC Water Research & Technology, on tracing metal sources in the abandoned #Nantymwyn lead mine. Thanks to my excellent co-authors, @DocIsotopes, Patrick Byrne, Rory Walsh, @aspectsofwales & Tom Williams doi.org/10.1039/D3EW00…

🚨NEW: Two in three research staff in UK universities are employed on fixed-term contracts Today's report exposes the widespread use of gig-economy style contracts for the staff who prop up university research departments. Read the full report here: ucu.org.uk/article/13444/…

💚🌳Our latest mega-team paper, involving lots of the EU isotope dendro community, came out over the hols. d18O VPD changes in recent centuries show anthropogenic atmospheric drying across an EU tree ring network. Superbly led by @KerstinTreydte 🌳💚 ➡️ nature.com/articles/s4156…

😀Also extremely happy about the final outcome of this long-lasting, tree-ring oxygen isotope and earth system model based work on unprecedented atmospheric drying across Europe. Read more here: rdcu.be/duzAw @NatureGeosci.

Festive fun @swanseageog @SwanseaUni - pollution monitoring in Wales. If you're looking for a dissertation topic, DM me. tinyurl.com/PGT-geography

1/2 Interested in a funded PhD for 2024? Get in touch about potential topics: multi-isotopes & diet & mobility, isotope zooarchaeology, palaeoecology & palaeoclimate reconstruction, isoscapes, palaeoproteomics, ZooMS of bone fragments or artefacts, isotope archaeobotany