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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Jul 5

One of the friendliest, well-organised, and completely inspiring conferences I’ve ever been to. What a privilege it is to be a part of this community.

To the organisers, hosts, and participants of #IAVCEI2025, I cannot thank you enough 🌋🖤

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · May 1

First time at #EGU, and certainly not my last.
What an incredible event, and what a beautiful city Vienna is ✨

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Apr 20

🌦️ New Paper 🌦️
Loved being a part of this study led by Alistair Morgan, and where we explored how climate may have impacted ancient civilisations in the Marmara region during late Holocene:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Societal responses to cold-season rainfall variability: a speleothem perspective on Byzantine and Hittite climate interactions in Late Holocene Türkiye and southeast Europe

Understanding past hydroclimate dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean is crucial for predicting future climate impacts. However, the ‘Marmara Transiti…

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Apr 17

I have an incredible team of co-authors to thank for multiple facets of this study, as well as funding from the @erc.europa.eu , facilities at @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social , and editor Pierre Francus for his professional and thorough handling of the manuscript throughout this process.

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌴🌊 New Paper 🌊🌴
It's been a long time coming, so I'm thrilled to share our new study - where we assessed whether shifts in local hydroclimate produced measurable changes in how Hg has been transported to, and buried within, the Lake Bosumtwi system since ∼ 96 ka...
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Evidence for millennial-scale interactions between Hg cycling and hydroclimate from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

Abstract. Changing hydrology impacts the biogeochemical cycling of elements such as mercury (Hg), whose transport and transformation in the environment appear linked to hydroclimate on diverse timesca...

cp.copernicus.org

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Apr 14

Cool opportunity to work with a great team on a fascinating topic (and one very close to my heart!) this summer 🌊 🪨

Oxford Earth Sciences @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social · Apr 14

We are offering four exciting summer projects exploring mercury concentrations in a variety of settings with Tamsin Mather, Joost Frieling and Stuart Robinson 🧪 for full project descriptions and how to apply, see our website www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies. Please share with your networks!

Vacancies

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 14

Thank you so much Nick, I hope they enjoy it 🙌🏼

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 14

Thanks must also go to @davidmpyle.bsky.social , Steve Sparks, Sam Engwell, and Thomas Aubry - for providing such valuable insights and ideas throughout this process ✨

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 14

🌋 New Paper🌋
A true pleasure to work with @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social on this: a study I'm delighted to now be able to share.
Huge thanks must go to the editor and reviewers at JAV, for their swift and professional handling of our manuscript throughout 🙏
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Large explosive eruptions may be dominated by pyroclastic flows instead of buoyant plumes: insights from a global data compilation - Journal of Applied Volcanology

The dynamics of Earth’s largest, most voluminous eruptions (≥ 100 km3 ejecta; VEI 7) are poorly understood. Here, we explore the question of whether these very large eruptions can be treated as scaled...

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thank you ☺️

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thank you so much 🙏🏼

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thank you ☺️

Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you so much 🙏🏼

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thanks Seb ☺️🙏🏼

Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 8

Got myself a PhD 🎓✨

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Mar 4

Honoured to have been given a two-page spread in this term’s @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social Magazine to reflect on my PhD work, and what it means for our understanding of the Earth system 🌍

Also, check out some of the other amazing articles 👇🏼
www.earth.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/ea...

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Feb 21

This is one of the ways we show up for each other, to build community and strengthen our networks while. Science is an iterative, collaborative practice.

To the people reviewing right now: thank you. To the people who suggest reviewers when they can't review: thank you.

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Jan 1

Oh...and I submitted and defended my PhD 🎉 which explores how the Hg cycle has evolved throughout the Quaternary, and how these changes are recorded in terrestrial lake sediments...

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Exploring the Quaternary mercury cycle - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive

Exploring how climate-driven processes impact biogeochemical cycles is critical for understanding how discrete components of the Earth system have interacted through time. Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal released into the atmosphere as a result of natural processes and more recently by human

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Jan 1

And finally, we presented a summary of the perspectives and methodological approaches raised at the ICDP MEME project workshop in 2023, and defined our objectives for drilling in 2025-26...

sd.copernicus.org/articles/33/...

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) workshop on the Fucino paleolake project: the longest continuous terrestrial archive in the MEditerranean recording the last 5 Million yea...

Abstract. During the last 5 million years (Pliocene–Holocene), the Earth climate system has undergone a series of marked changes, including (i) the shift from the Pliocene warm state to the Pleistocen...

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Jan 1

We produced a late-Pleistocene fire record from the sediments of Lake Bosumtwi, through measurement of macrocharcoal concentrations (led by Ruth Kiely)...

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Heat, hydroclimate and herbivory: A late-pleistocene record of environmental change from tropical western Africa

Fire shapes ecological dynamics across many regions of Africa today and plays a critical role in the maintenance of grass dominated (savannah) ecosyst…

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Jan 1

We found evidence for millennial-scale interactions between Hg cycling and hydroclimate by analysing the sediments of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana, and published the preprint on EGUsphere...

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New evidence for millennial-scale interactions between Hg cycling and hydroclimate from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

Abstract. Changing hydrology impacts the biogeochemical cycling of elements such as mercury (Hg), whose transport and transformation in the environment appear linked to hydroclimate on diverse timesca...

egusphere.copernicus.org

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Jan 1

We presented a first look at one of the longest terrestrial Hg cycle reconstructions covering the mid-to-late Pleistocene...

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) One million years of mercury cycling recorded in the sediments of Lake Ohrid, SE Europe

PDF | The glacial-interglacial (G-IG) sequences of the Pleistocene are valuable natural experiments with which to investigate interactions between the... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Jan 1

We reconstructed changing Hg cycle dynamics in lakes Prespa and Ohrid (southeast Europe) during the last glacial period, with some surprising results...

bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Mercury records covering the past 90 000 years from lakes Prespa and Ohrid, SE Europe

Abstract. The element mercury (Hg) is a key pollutant, and much insight has been gained by studying the present-day Hg cycle. However, many important processes within this cycle operate on timescales ...

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Dr Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social · Jan 1

We found evidence for abrupt climate change at the MIS 5/4 transition (~74,000 years ago) in the Eastern Mediterranean, by analysing the trace element geochemistry of a speleothem from Dim Cave, Türkiye...

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Abrupt climate change at the MIS 5/4 transition recorded in a speleothem from the Eastern Mediterranean

The marine isotope stage (MIS) 5a to 4 transition (∼74 ka) was associated with rapid ice sheet expansion, declining moisture availability globally, an…

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