Nick Cutler
            
            @ncutler.bsky.social
          
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          Physical geographer interested in long-term ecological change, particularly in soil and plant communities, and the ecological impacts of volcanic processes. Often in Iceland.
      
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      🌱🌋 A greenhouse experiment led by Scripps Oceanography & @unigreifswald.bsky.social has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: volcanic ash can triple plant productivity by transforming the microbiome, reshaping entire soil ecosystems. Dig in: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/volcani...
    
      
          Volcanic Ash Supercharges Plant Growth and Rebuilds Soil Life
          A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...
        
          
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              Nick Cutler
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              · Sep 18
        
        
        
            No, Mount St. Helens isn’t erupting again. It’s just stirring up leftover ash 45 years after ‘the big one’ | CNN
            For a moment, it seemed like a blast from the past: a plume over Mount St. Helens on Tuesday looked like the volcano might be erupting again. But fortunately, this was not an eruption — just a wind-wh...
          
            
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              Nick Cutler
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              · Jul 31
        
        
          
      That’s a wrap after 21 great years at Newcastle University!  Although retired from full-time work I'll not be retiring from academia and am looking forward to working on a number of collaborative research projects.
    
        
        
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              Nick Cutler
              @ncutler.bsky.social
          
              · Jun 23