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
@ncutler.bsky.social
· 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
@ncutler.bsky.social
· 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