Southern Cross GeoScience

Are trees a climate catch 22? Leaves remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but their stems emit the potent greenhouse gas methane...unless bacteria consume it first go.nature.com/2P7xGiU @Luke_Jeffrey

In a world-first, published in @NatureComms, #SouthernCrossUniversity researchers reveal the unique, methane-eating microbial communities living in the bark of a common Australian tree species, the paperbark. Read more➡️ bit.ly/3mLt9PB @Luke_Jeffrey

'We found methane-eating bacteria living in a common Australian tree. It could be a game changer for curbing greenhouse gases.' 👇 🌳theconversation.com/we-found-metha… Read a related paper by @Luke_Jeffrey, @Dr_Damo77, et al. 👇 📖nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

@Luke_Jeffrey does some #scicomm on his new tree-mediated methane #treethane paper in @ConversationEDU tinyurl.com/zrmwyt6w . Significant methane oxidation within the bark of trees! Paper #openaccess in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

Bark-dwelling methanotrophic bacteria decrease methane emissions from trees nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our paper "Alkalinity Production Coupled to Pyrite Formation Represents an Unaccounted Blue Carbon Sink" is now published in GBC. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GB…

Excited to now share our @NatureComms paper: Bark-dwelling #methanotrophic bacteria decrease #methane emissions from trees. nature.com/articles/s4146… Awesome collaborative effort with @greeninglab @ele_chiri @ScottJoh_dirtDr @Dr_Damo77 🙌#Treethane #MOB #Microbiology #Oxidation

A #SciComm piece I wrote for @ConversationEDU about the significance of the global #Treethane research frontiers and our new @NatureComms publication revealing that microbes living in tree bark consume #Methane theconversation.com/we-found-metha…

1/6) Pls check out our newly accepted @NewPhyt paper revealing #Isotopic evidence for axial tree stem #Methane #Oxidation within subtropical lowland forests 🌱> tinyurl.com/57k3zaa9

Submitted my Ph. D. thesis. A big thanks goes to everyone who supported me during the last three years. Now I am looking for postdocs in Europe.

@MikePeacock86 @KostenSarian @GauciGauci @CathLovelock @a_veraart @UK_CEH Very nice paper Mike! Would be interesting to know how much ebullition is unaccounted for, and therefore by how much are these emissions underestimated. Maybe that's in the SI but cant see that online. Great to see this work out there, I am sure it will gain a bunch of attention

Really happy that our new paper is out in early view: "Global importance of methane emissions from drainage ditches and canals" A real team effort with @KostenSarian @GauciGauci @CathLovelock @a_veraart @UK_CEH and a load of Twitterless authors too iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day💕👩‍🔬👩🏻‍🎓@SCUonline @SCGeoscience #WomenScienceDay #WomenInScience

Fantastic #PhD opportunity 👇 ✅A frontier project investigating forest #Methane fluxes🌴🌳 ✅Funded 3-year #PhD scholarship💲 ✅World-class @SCGeoscience labs +equipment👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 ✅Beautiful @SCUonline subtropical Australian location ✅ Please RT or tag any whom may be interested 🙏

Check out @GReithmaier's new #PhD chapter on subtropical urban #Estuarine #Biogeochemical dynamics driven by rainfall. Love the new duel 32-syringe autosampler methods capturing 2-week #Timeseries @ 1.5hr resolution #Alkalinty #DOC #Nutrient fluxes👏🙌

Check out our new publication “Rainfall drives rapid shifts in carbon and nutrient source-sink dynamics of an urbanised, mangrove-fringed estuary”. @Dr_Damo77 @Barefoot_Lab @Drexl_Michael #Mangrove #biogeochemistry #estuary #bluecarbon Available at: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to share our new paper on antimony interactions with manganese oxides by @nkarimia @ScottJoh_dirtDr and myself in the Journal of Hazardous Materials (doi.org/10.1016/j.jhaz…). Thanks to @arc_gov_au & @GeoloJess_ + Peter Kappen at @ausynchrotron. @SCUonline @SCGeoscience

Our new paper shows that agricultural drainage has increased REE leaching from acid sulfate soils under farmlands in Finland, leading to REE enrichment in estuarine sediments mainly via sorption to clay minerals (borenv.net/BER/archive/pd…). @SCUonline @SCGeoscience @ResearchSCU

How will climate change impact arsenic & antimony mobility in rivers? Our new paper from @ScottJoh_dirtDr @nkarimia and myself in Water Resources Research provides new clues (check it out at dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020WR…). @SCUonline @ResearchSCU @SCGeoscience #mining #geochemistry

Here is a link to the OA paper bg.copernicus.org/articles/17/47… A big thanks to collaborators from @UQ_News @GriffithARI

Great to see this final paper of twitterless James Sippo's PhD out in @EGU_BioGeo. Combining dendochronology and sediment geochemistry to unravel impacts of mangrove dieback on iron. Great collaboration with @ANSTO research funded by @arc_gov_au