Tom Roland

It's getting easier to be green 🌱 🐸 While Kermit may have decided green was all he wanted to be, 🧑‍🔬 scientists warn that a greening trend across the #AntarcticPeninsula is underway & accelerating due to #climatechange. From our team at @UniofExeter ⤵️ news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-env…

Antarctica Experiencing Rapid Greening as Planet Warms, Study Shows onegreenplanet.org/environment/an… via @OneGreenPlanet @UniExeCornwall @UniExeCEC @UoE_DEES @BAS_News @uniexecges @ThomasPRoland @IlyaMaclean @KAnderson_RS

These numbers are shocking and could have severe implications for biodiversity and ecological functioning in Antarctica. The continent’s environmental future is very much at risk. 🧵3/3 nature.com/articles/s4156…

We found that vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula had increased nearly 14-fold between 1986 and 2021, with the rate of ‘greening’ increasing by over 30% in the last five years of the study.🧵2/

On Friday, our new @NatureGeosci paper, ‘Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites’, was published. We show, for the first time, that the ‘greening’ trend seen in the cold-climate ecosystems of the Arctic is mirrored on the Antarctic continent,🧵1/

Article: The Antarctic Peninsula is greening at an accelerating rate @ThomasPRoland @ExeterGeography @HertsGEP @BAS_News nature.com/articles/s4156…

Fantastic internship for first and second year undergraduate students - working with my good friend @ScootJD at @PlymUni, using tree ring analysis to investigate the response of the UK's wet woodland to climate and human pressures. Deadline is 13th May. aries-dtp.ac.uk/davidson/

🚨🌎New @Nature paper! Here, we suggest that the recent rejection of the 'Anthropocene' as a defined epoch creates opportunities for the concept's interpretation, critique and application across disciplines, cultures and world views. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Nouvelle opportunité de doctorat : « Évaluer l'importance relative des plus grands puits de carbone naturels de Patagonie ». Travailler avec les sédiments des fjords et des tourbières à @UniofExeter et @ParisSaclay. #version" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">adum.fr/as/ed/voirprop…

New PhD Opportunity: 'Evaluating the relative importance of the largest natural carbon sinks in Patagonia'. Working with fjord and peatland sediments at @UniofExeter and @ParisSaclay. #version" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">adum.fr/as/ed/voirprop…

@SaffronJONeill @ExeterGeography @PastTeller @feralgeographer @NeilAdger @craftgeography @JamesGDyke @drcbutler Thanks @SaffronJONeill - a version of this figure/gif features in my ‘Anthropocene’ module. Will give the accompanying article a read!

This new analysis could be a great reading (and discussion-starter) in climate/env change modules @ExeterGeography + add to efforts on decolonising the curriculum. @PastTeller @feralgeographer @NeilAdger @craftgeography @JamesGDyke @drcbutler @ThomasPRoland

@GraemeSwindles I did look out for it last time I was in Belfast but didn’t spot it, then again it was 20 years ago now.. so it might have closed. We’ll have to do a proper recce and see!

@ThomasPRoland We must go for a Chinese meal in that place when you are over next - in honour of Mike! There are a few in that area. I wonder which one he took you to!

Very sad to hear this. Mike made me feel very welcome in Belfast on my first PhD fieldtrip. We had a tour of the local peatlands, saw Lough Neagh and some archaeology, before enjoying the best Chinese meal I’ve ever had, nr. Botanic Ave. A lovely guy and a fascinating scientist.

@ScootJD Amazing!!

I love this project!

📣 Funded PhD Studentship 🧬 Join us to investigate the expansion of ancient British agricultural expansion using next-generation methods! exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/… @ThomasPRoland @toby_pennington @vorontsovams Deadline 9th Jan. Share & RT! #phd #gw4 #sedaDNA #agriculture

Second #PhDproject is investigating the impact of regenerative agriculture on lowland #peat soil characteristics and #GHG fluxes, led by Prof. Will Blake, with me, @jkrowan and Prof. Brian Reid (UoEastAnglia) aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/b… (3/n)

First #PhDproject is looking at integrating modern and long-term ecology to inform UK #peatland #fire management led by @JessieW_Palaeo, with me, Prof. Ralph Fyfe and @garethdclay (UoManchester)! aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/w… (2/n)

Our project works in partnership with @Bluemarinef and a host of other fantastic partners. Follow the links to find out more or get in contact with me or @richardktennant for additional info! 🧵3/3 @ExeterMarine @RewildingArg @ConvexIn

Our part of the project will focus on tracing the origin of blue carbon in near-shore marine sediments using a multi-proxy suite of palaeoecological, geochemical, eDNA and geochronological techniques, with exciting fieldwork opportunities. 🧵2/3

We are excited to be able to advertise two opportunities to join the @ConvexSeascape at @ExeterGeography. The first is for a fully-funded PhD (exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…) , and the second is for a postdoctoral research fellow (jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…). Please share and RT!🧵1/3