Dr. Tom Theurer
@GeoTheu
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Geologist @UoAGeosciences. Time spent stoking palaeowildfires and firing lasers 🔥🌿 Deplorable excess of personality. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
Joined September 2019
The largest wildfires on Earth are burning again in South East Asia. Smouldering peatlands. Peat is ancient organic matter and when it burns it instantaneously becomes net carbon emissions. It is like burning fossil fuels but without any of the benefits. Total destruction.
I wonder what it will take for these Indonesian fires to get mass media attention? Thousands of fires, smoke plumes the size of France, tens of millions exposed to hazardous smoke, & the loss of crucial carbon stores. The Tenerife fires have had more coverage! Today's image:
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Call to top engineering graduates wanting to complete a PhD degree with Imperial Hazelab on the wide range of *fire issues in energy systems*. These include batteries, wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, hydrogen systems, and powerlines in wildfires.
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Congratulations to all our Graduates from @UoAGeosciences today! Well done everyone, great to be there and celebrate alongside you all.
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Biggest Ginkgo leaves I have ever seen! Nine-inch-wide (22.9 cm) lamina. These long shoot leaves were produced along a beefy sucker off a street tree in Ghent, Belgium. #mesozoic #fossil #paleobotany #ginkgo
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Congratulations to @aberdeenuni @AbdnLifeScience #PhD student Katie for winning Poster Blitz prize @TheBACR Early Career Award. Co-supervised by @RashaFAbuEid & @DrDaveMoo 👏 🎉
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Highlights from a visit to Bristol Botanic Garden - particularly enjoying the focus on plant evolution 🌱🌿🌵🌴🌲
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The clearest picture ever taken from the surface of Venus (1981)
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🟠 Fires🔥 in the Iberá Wetlands, Corrientes, #Argentina🇦🇷 17 February 2023 #Copernicus🇪🇺 #Sentinel-2🛰️ Full-size ➡️ https://t.co/n9QjuWU4rX
#OpenData #SciComm #RemoteSensing #fire #wildfire Image is about 58 kilometers wide
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Multiple active #wildfires have been detected in #Chile since Feb 2. The total area affected so far is 270,000 ha. The smoke from the #fires is also visible via Sentinel-3A. Over 3000 firefighters and 60 aircraft are battling the flame nonstop for the last 4 days. #PrayForChile🙏
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Ponga (nz tree fern) log carbonised in pyroclastic flow deposits of western Mt Taranaki (around 250 years old or less)
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Awesome discovery today - a new outcrop of a young pyroclastic flow deposit (this one prob around 250 yrs old) on Taranaki - destroyed entire forest and charcoalised it
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While we were busy thinking about rain, this beautiful winter weather sneaked up on us and took us completely by surprise! It's been so fun to see Uist blanketed in a layer of white fluffy snow and a community of snowmen (women, cats, and even a sheep) pop up along the roadsides!
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Chuffed to announce that I passed my PhD viva examination yesterday! A massive thank you to my examiners, everyone at @UoAGeosciences, and especially my supervisors @DrDaveMoo, Prof. David Jolley, and Dr Dmitri Mauquoy!
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Fantastic paper yielding some really important insights into charcoal dispersal!
New paper for #CharcoalTuesday! 🔥 @richardsvachula and I modelled how blocky and elongated charcoal disperse Elongated particles appear to travel much further - this makes things tricky for #palaeofire reconstruction Online now in @HoloceneJ - https://t.co/g55Y1sjZQG
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New paper for #CharcoalTuesday! 🔥 @richardsvachula and I modelled how blocky and elongated charcoal disperse Elongated particles appear to travel much further - this makes things tricky for #palaeofire reconstruction Online now in @HoloceneJ - https://t.co/g55Y1sjZQG
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How smart were dinosaurs? How did their brains, intelligence, and senses change over time? Come to Edinburgh and do a PhD with me (& @WitmerLab @OrnellaBertrand & colleagues) and figure it out! Applications open now @e3dtp @GeosciencesEd! https://t.co/SGs5CYnJvZ
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