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Lydia Mackenzie
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Palaeoecologist and biogeographer at the University of Tasmania in lutruwita | Alpine ecology | Fire regimes | Palynology |
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Anybody used these for outreach or in the classroom? Recommendations on where to get one?
August 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Applications for the Leanne Armand award are now open. This award funds early and mid-career researchers based in Australia to access training in micropaleonotology. Applications are due 28th September, all details can be found on the AQUA website […]
Original post on fediscience.org
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July 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
#ansto are looking to employ an ongoing climate research scientist. Rare opportunity to join a good group :)

https://careers.ansto.gov.au/job/Sydney-Research-Scientist-Climate-Science-NSW/1212088266/

#fedijobs #fedihired #Climate
Research Scientist - Climate Science
Research Scientist - Climate Science
careers.ansto.gov.au
July 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🌏 Rare opportunity to join us!

We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university

🔬 Isotope Geochemistry
🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial
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Wilson’s Promontory or Yiruk Wamoon, 3 hours drive from Melbourne, Australia, is National Park with magnificent peaks, beaches, rainforest, and the world’s southernmost mangroves. A hiking and boating paradise, the promontory and surrounding islands are the exposed portions of a Devonian granite batholith.
May 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Update on the February 2026 International Conference on Geomorphology in New Zealand. We have extended the abstract deadline by 2 weeks until 13th June 2025. We have great plenary speakers, fieldtrips and young geomorphologist programme. #geomorphology #geoscience www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/
Call For Abstracts - 2026 IAG International Conference on Geomorphology
Call for Abstracts Abstract Submissions Now Open! Click the button to the right to begin your abstract submission. SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE Abstract
www.confer.co.nz
May 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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A moment of calm on a perfect day in lutruwita (Tasmania)
May 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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utas.edu.au
Australian researchers have discovered how a large mountain chain resembling the European Alps and buried deep below the East Antarctic ice sheet, grew and partly collapsed more than half a billion years ago. Read more: utas.au/mountain_chain
Study of ancient collision zone reveals origins of enormous hidden mountain range in East Antarctica
utas.au
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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"The mutton birds have become so full of plastic their bellies crunch & crackle with the sound of it."

@SenatorSurfer told me about this a few weeks ago. If this is not another wake up call for our rampant destruction of this planet I don't know what is
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
On this island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch
It's an exclusive tourist destination and one of the most pristine places on the planet. It's the last place you would expect to find birds with bellies so full of plastic that they crunch if you sque...
www.abc.net.au
May 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Feeling bogged down or mired in anxiety? Consider that boglands, once equated to wastelands of misery, offer beauty and innovation. These treasures protect history as they control our climate future. With internal strength built one peat layer at a time, bogs control vast landscapes. Love the bogs.
Image of a bog landscape with patches of wetland, forest and open water.
May 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Anthony Albanese wins 2025 federal election with Labor on track for majority
Anthony Albanese wins 2025 federal election with Labor on track for majority
Peter Dutton set to lose his own seat of Dickson in Brisbane as Coalition suffers collapse in support * Election 2025 results LIVE: Australia votes tracker and federal seat counts * Listen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: Gina * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has won the federal election and is poised to retain majority government after a nationwide swing to Labor. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, is set to lose his home seat of Dickson in Brisbane in a disastrous result for the Coalition. Continue reading...
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May 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Deepen your understanding of climate change and learn how you can take meaningful steps towards making a difference in your community and beyond with our free online course.

Delivered by a recognised global leader in climate action, you can enroll today: utas.au/TheClimateSh...
A person in a garden setting examining a plant.
April 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Listen to the full episode with University of Nottingham paleoecologist @michela-mariani.bsky.social

www.buzzsprout.com/2464891
April 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Spent the weekend hunting for wetlands! Beautiful sphagnum peatland and button grass moorland cored near Lake St Clair for the UTas PalaeoLab 🧪⛰️
April 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Not the screen I want to see after an hour writing in a local cafe :( 🧪📝
April 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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The first open science meeting of our new COST action happens in Prague in July! We want to attract all kinds of proxies 🐘🌲🐛🪲🔥🥀🧪🌾❄️🦠 - signup this week to get funding #PalaeOpen
palaeopen.github.io/events/pragu...
prague_2025 – PalaeOpen
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April 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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🌿 Don’t miss CIEHF Partner Investigator Gerry Turpin on Gardening Australia tonight!

Hear his story on Country, culture & plants. Filmed at JCU’s Nguma-bada Campus, showcasing deep knowledge and care for Land and Sea Country.

📺 ABC 7:30pm | Sun 1:30pm | Stream on iView.
April 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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"But instead of pining for the past we might have to turn our focus to building the future – a future in which the scampering, bitey, ever-evolving descendants of today’s Tasmanian devils and eastern quolls (the great-great-great grand-nieces of the thylacine, 72 times removed) can thrive."
Can we recreate a lost world? In Tasmania, anything could happen
The thylacine might walk again. Or Lake Pedder might rise again. The possibility of ecological restoration in the island state plays into the appeal of going back in time
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
lydiamackenzie.bsky.social
Some days in the lab are better than others! My new lab buddy arrived today 👀 🧪🥼
March 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Applications for @AINSE_Ltd’s online Winter School are NOW OPEN to final-year undergrads from AINSE-member universities.

Discover how your future Honours, Masters & PhD #research can connect to world-class facilities at @ansto.bsky.social
and beyond

Apply now! ainse.edu.au/winter-school/
Winter School
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March 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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14 years ago I hiked Tasmania’s south coast track. Crazy how this feels like only yesterday! Time for round 2🥾🥾
March 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
lydiamackenzie.bsky.social
What a great project and team!
March 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
lydiamackenzie.bsky.social
The Central Plateau is looking beautiful! Looking forward to going back for our biogeography field trip later this week with #UTas 🧪⛰️🚌
March 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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gasugasu1984.bsky.social
a beautifully written piece by Andrew Darby

"And Tasmania is in a new age of fire."

the fact is that we are seeing ancient Gondwana flora burn in places that have never before burnt

This is climate change

We must protect it like the treasure it is
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Jurassic-era trees have grown in Tasmania for millions of years. Now they face their biggest threat: fire
Pencil pines grow for more than a thousand years each, and only in Tasmania. As lightning fires become more common, humans must mobilise to protect them – or lose these ancients forever
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Gepatschferner (Kaunertal, Tirol, AT)
2020 | 2024

Demise of the largest glacier in Tirol over the last 5 years! 😱

When the landscape is evolving at a non-geological speed... 🔥

📽️ Martin Mergili (Uni Graz), Stefan Haselberger (Uni Wien/PHUSICOS)
March 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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ciehf.bsky.social
New Job Opportunity - Research Fellow (Palaeoecology/Geography) at ANU

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is seeking a Research Fellow to join its ANU Node in Canberra
Details in the attached link.
For inquiries: [email protected]
Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification:  Academic Level BSalary package: $115,739 – $131,227 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time, Fixed term (up to November 2025) Fantastic opportunity to work at a University t...
jobs.anu.edu.au
February 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM