Iain Robertson (inactive)
@DocIsotopes
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Lost isotope chemist now in geography @SwanseaUni! Palaeoclimatologist, mine remediation, hydrology, biochar. Ex-Pres @treeringsociety. Voluntary CFR. Own views
Swansea, Wales
Joined September 2016
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: https://t.co/L8e4IV0gDT
#mdpisustainability via @Sus_MDPI
mdpi.com
Special Issue in journal Sustainability: Biochar as a Sustainable Solution for Water and Soil Pollution: Removal of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants
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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.
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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: https://t.co/uOfJ6Ndbbz
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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
https://t.co/7wJDB6gFOd
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Giant sequoia trees are thriving in the UK, growing at a similar rate to those in California, the tree’s native home.
newscientist.com
Since their introduction in the 1800s, giant sequoia trees in the UK have grown up to 55 metres tall and capture 85 kilograms of carbon a year on average
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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: https://t.co/yOxoKwE2L4
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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
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Sunny dendro-day @WythamWoods - shame the squirrels like the dendrometers as much as we do @SUSciEng @swanseageog
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Interested in reconstructing past explosive volcanism then come to work with us….. Research Officer - Tephrochronology/Volcanology at Swansea University
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Water, water everywhere... great day @BIFoRUoB collecting samples and checking on dendrometers! So it rains a lot in the UK! @SUSciEng @swanseageog
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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
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A tracer injection and synoptic sampling experiment was carried out in a tributary catchment of the River Tywi (Carmarthenshire, Wales) during a very low streamflow event to locate and quantify...
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🚨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: https://t.co/6kk2foiB5J
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💚🌳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 🌳💚 ➡️
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Nature Geoscience - The atmosphere has dried across most regions of Europe in recent decades, a trend that can be attributed primarily to human impacts, according to tree ring records spanning 400...
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😀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: https://t.co/oRTfzRqitP
@NatureGeosci.
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Festive fun @swanseageog @SwanseaUni - pollution monitoring in Wales. If you're looking for a dissertation topic, DM me. https://t.co/CrWJgpddAj
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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
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After today's High Court ruling that govt and @EnvAgency are acting illegally is this a good time to remind you the SoS for @DefraGovUK is married to an executive at @AnglianWater a WC guilty of 72 environmental permit breaches over the last 10 years? https://t.co/B8MEcYEQRz
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Steve Barclay married to executive at Anglian Water, which is under investigation for potential illegal dumping of raw sewage
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It's a pleasure to announce the new @treeringsociety Executive Council for 2024-2026. We thank the existing council for all their hard work and welcome the new team when they start on 1 January 2024. Details at: https://t.co/MGorpZF4oK
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🪰🪳📢@SensoryEcology and I have a @SWBio_DTP PhD available on the visual ecology of crop pests. Nice combo of basic and applied training in lively & supportive research groups @UniExeCEC and @BEESwansea. Potential applicants get in touch! https://t.co/7scN18NhPj
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AN URGENT MESSAGE TO ALL UCU HE MEMBERS👇 Don't let the vice-chancellors win. Post your YES vote today. #ucuRISING
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