Helen Roberts
@HelenRobertsOSL
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Professor at Aberystwyth University, shedding a little light on the past through the development & application of luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments.
Wales, United Kingdom
Joined October 2015
We are delighted to have been awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for our academics’ pioneering work in helping to tackle the devastating impact of parasitic flatworms. #QAPrizes @BCHCAber @AberDLSAGB @QAPrizes
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It's a privilege to receive a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for our @BCHCAber @AberDLSAGB scientists’ work tackling the devastating impact of parasitic flatworms. This is the highest UK Honour in higher education. 🖱️ https://t.co/XMVzAC13E8
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Congratulations to Larry Barham @LivAncWorlds @LivUni & Geoff Duller @AU_DGES @AberUni & colleagues on this spectacular @ahrcpress funded research revealing the earliest wooden structure: crafted at least 476,000 years ago it challenges our understanding of ‘Stone Age’ hominins.
Nature research paper: Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago
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Congratulations to all participants! Fabulous event 👏🤩🙌. There’s still time for anyone who would like to support this challenge with sponsorship for the Bronglais General Hospital Chemotherapy Day Unit, University Charity of the Year:
Massive congratulations to all the walkers cyclists and runners for completing the Penglais to Pwllpeiran challenge today. Don't forget to sponsor: https://t.co/UzDG8rGSJT…
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Presenting the @IPBES #ValuesAssessment typology of #nature’s diverse #values at the #COP15montreal meeting yesterday. It will be important for the #CBDCOP15 refer to these multiple values in the #globalbiodiversityframework. @Aberbschool @AberUni
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👇The latest paper from our collaborative research project at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia, is out in @NatureGeosci. Thanks to @dfg_public @NERCscience @NSF for research funding. A shout-out to #geochronology team @ChSLane @MSChapot @CelineMVidal Christopher Bronk Ramsey & Al Deino too.
Article: Over the last 620,000 years, three distinct phases of climate variability in eastern Africa coincided with shifts in hominin evolution and dispersal https://t.co/2vKnEApONL
@FoersterVerena @MartinHTrauth @henryflamb @FSchaeb @asfish2010 @HSPDPinfo @icdpDrilling
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Surreal to be at @HSPDPinfo meeting in Nairobi listening to a virtual arts-sci talk by Julian Ruddock of @AberUni @AberArtSchool delivered from his kitchen in Wales. Check out the online version of his @aberystwytharts ‘Earth Core’ installation of 2017: https://t.co/0WO6Zvh5Dt 👏
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~nEw PaPeR aLeRt~ Out today in @SciReports, we present new #leafwax isotope data from Chew Bahir along with previously published data from nearby Turkana to look at Orbital controls on eastern African hydroclimate in the Pleistocene! https://t.co/B7qimTid2L
nature.com
Scientific Reports - Orbital controls on eastern African hydroclimate in the Pleistocene
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Great to see this super paper out on Lake Chew Bahir. Lots of very challenging samples came through @OxRadiocarbon from this project. Nice to see the cumulative results. Congrats all authors!
Your bank holiday / staycation 😎 reading needs sorted✅: our paper using multiple techniques to establish one of the longest directly dated sedimentary records in eastern Africa is out now! Free to download for 90days https://t.co/6eVQz4TG3p
#radiocarbon #OSL #ArArDating #tephra
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Your bank holiday / staycation 😎 reading needs sorted✅: our paper using multiple techniques to establish one of the longest directly dated sedimentary records in eastern Africa is out now! Free to download for 90days https://t.co/6eVQz4TG3p
#radiocarbon #OSL #ArArDating #tephra
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Fantastic paid internship opportunities with British Antarctic Survey!👇
Please share! 16 paid #internships at BAS for groups underrepresented in polar science. Closing 22 August. Opportunities in #Science, #Communications, #HR and more. Full details on eligibility and how to apply: https://t.co/xNlzd4EvPF
#DiversityinPolarScience
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Delighted to finally be with real, live, 3-D humans Kirsty Penkman & Dustin White @NEaar_lab, and @LumiChic Debra Colarossi, in the field for #EQuaTe project: https://t.co/3gxmcZWwy1, with colleagues from Natural History Museum, British Museum & others, & this iconic character.
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A drying trend in East Africa between 200,000 and 60,000 years ago was followed by cycles of high millennial to centennial climate variability, and may have influenced the dispersal of human populations @FSchaeb @MartinHTrauth @henryflamb @SFB806_CRC806
https://t.co/jk2WCizKS9
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📢NEW PAPER OUT: East African climate during the last 200 kyr and its connection to human expansion lead by @FSchaeb with @MartinHTrauth @FoersterVerena @w_dusing @henryflamb @HelenRobertsOSL and many more. Link OPEN ACCESS: https://t.co/TGLIcclurL
nature.com
Communications Earth & Environment - A drying trend in East Africa between 200,000 and 60,000 year ago was followed by cycles of high millennial to centennial climate variability, and may have...
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Great article by @Davidmkeys on our new PNAS article!!! @andrebahr5 @MartinHTrauth @DrEleanorScerri @ProfMarkMaslin @palaeolim @henryflamb on How El Niño climate phenomena helped create humanity
independent.co.uk
Changes in Earth’s orbit are thought to have driven Pacific Ocean climate cycles that then swept around the planet
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In this week’s #INQUA #SACCOM seminar (below), 27th May, @tommyhigham discusses new approaches to understanding when & how Homo sapiens expanded out of Africa into Eurasia and met #Neanderthals, #Denisovans, and others. Also improvements in #radiocarbon pretreatment. #chronology.
A reminder to join us this Thursday for the 5th talk in @INQUAsaccom 's weekly virtual seminar series. “Improving chronology building of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia” by Prof Thomas Higham (University of Oxford) Details:
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☀️Solar scientists have confirmed the existence of #magnetic waves on the surface of the Sun that were predicted by a Swedish #scientist over 70 years ago. ☀️ 🖱️🗞️ Full story: https://t.co/09TSsZfkBU 📸Photo credit: @NASA
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Join us! #INQUA #SACCOM talk by Matthew Kirby (California State Univ, USA) “Re-visiting Lake Mojave Using a Basin Analysis Approach: Trying to Resolve a Complex History of Lake Level Change” May 20th: 9am USA EST, 2pm London, 3pm Paris, 10pm Beijing. Details below. #14C #Bayesian
Virtual Series Alert: Advances in Stratigraphy and Geochronology This series of talks hosted by SACCOM (@INQUAsaccom ) features a diverse range of geochronology & stratigraphy topics. All details in link 👇 https://t.co/277zEGCflV
#VirtualEvents #paleoscience #research
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