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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 7d

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Agnieszka Halaś et al. ⬇️

Peatland development reconstruction and complex biological responses to permafrost thawing in Western Siberia

Abstract. Western Siberian peatlands are among the largest peatland complexes in the world and play a crucial role in regulating the global climate. However, a lack of long-term, multi-proxy studies…

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Maurycy Żarczyński @mzarowka.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you for having me on the team!

Leah Marshall @leahpmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 31

Many thanks to my collaborators in @nau-ses.bsky.social and beyond for their help: Darrell Kaufman, Nancy Bigelow, Matt Bolton, Emily Cohen, Brooke Damon, Bruce Finney, @tephrabird.bsky.social, Nick McKay, Meriel Medina, @paleomunoz.bsky.social, Ted Schuur and @mzarowka.bsky.social

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Maurycy Żarczyński @mzarowka.bsky.social · Jun 9

Paleoenvironmental Research Lab
at the University of Gdansk is looking for a PhD student interested in #paleolimnology #lakes #sediments #geochronology #geology #sedimentology #geochemistry
#phdchat

Project: Varved sediments have been established as one of the most prominent environmental archives. Lake Synevyr is the first site in the Eastern Carpathians where varved sediments were discovered, providing the basis for completely new reconstructions of the Holocene environmental changes in this region. With our project we address the following research questions: What was the dynamics of climate change / human impact in the region during the transition from a nature-dominated to a human-dominated environment? Is the most recent time unusual within the Holocene? We aim to (1) reconstruct local vegetation changes, soil erosion and lake productivity since lake initiation to the present, and (2) evaluate the interactions between climate variability / human activity, and their impact on the lake environment.
Contact: The project is led by Prof. Wojciech Tylmann form Paleoenvironmental Research Laboratory, Department of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology. Candidates are requested to send (in one PDF file!) their CV including scientific achievements, motivation letter, references from the supervisor of their MSc thesis or immediate superior, and consent to the processing of personal data to the following email address: wojciech.tylmann@ug.edu.pl. The final deadline for submissions is July 25th at 3:00 pm, and the competition results will be announced by July 31th, 2025. Any questions regarding both the scientific scope of the project and the organizational-financial aspects can be directed to the same email address (wojciech.tylmann@ug.edu.pl).

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Katarzyna Marcisz @marciszowna.bsky.social · Apr 22

Our new paper in @pnas.org shows how the first Polish dynasty established a state and later, due to social and ecological imbalance, orchestrated its colapse.
We used #palaeoecology #archaeology #historical sources & #numismatics to show this complex process. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Unbalanced social–ecological acceleration led to state formation failure in early medieval Poland | PNAS

Rapid social–ecological intensification is a recurrent feature of human history. It occurred in different forms and contexts; its outcomes may have...

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · Jan 6

Graduate students in paleoclimatology! Want to spend 2 weeks this summer in the gorgeous eastern Sierra of California at paleoCAMP (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies) 2025? Apply before January 10th! paleoclimate.camp

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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)...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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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Jacek Szczygieł @speleojacek.bsky.social · Dec 13

We're hiring! 2-year PostDoc in #speleothem #seismic vulnerability from FEM modeling to enhance paleoseismological record of Hellenides (Greece)
Part of @ncngovpl.bsky.social SonataBIS project at
University of Silesia, Poland
Deadline: 14th January 2025
Details 👇
skk.erecruiter.pl/Offer.aspx?o...

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · Oct 30

Making #paleofire data #FAIR: Read our new report, published today in the new #PAGES Magazine, on integrating the Global Paleofire Database into the #Neotoma #Paleoecology Database! This step will have benefits for data curators and users, but a lot of work is still ahead 🔥🧪🌏

First steps towards integrating the Global Paleofire Database with Neotoma | PAGES

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Forum Akademickie @forumakademickie.bsky.social · Dec 2

Rada Narodowego Centrum Nauki za rezygnacją z Planu S‼️

Rada opowiedziała się „przeciw nakładaniu na grantobiorców ograniczeń rozliczenia projektu poprzez konieczność udostępniania w otwartym dostępie publikacji powstałych w czasie jego realizacji”.

Ostateczną decyzję podejmie dyrektor #NCN.

Rada NCN za rezygnacją z Planu S! Decyzja w rękach dyrektora - Forum Akademickie

Zdecydowana większość członków Rady Narodowego Centrum Nauki opowiedziała się za odstąpieniem od Planu S i taką rekomendację przedstawiła dyrektorowi agencji. To on podejmie ostateczną decyzję.

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Narodowe Centrum Nauki @ncn.gov.pl · Nov 29

Premier @donald-tusk.bsky.social zapowiedział, że #NCN otrzyma 500 mln złotych w obligacjach! @kancelariapremiera.bsky.social
@andrzej-domanski.bsky.social
@ministerstwonauki.bsky.social ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/...

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Katarzyna Marcisz @marciszowna.bsky.social · Nov 28

Are you working on #peatland #palaeoecology and plan on coming for #EGU25? Than get swamped and submit your abstract to session BG3.26 on all things connected with long-term peatlands development!
Can't wait to see you there!

Cc. @eurogeosciences.bsky.social @utriculator.bsky.social

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Mariusz Lamentowicz @utriculator.bsky.social · Nov 24

Do not hesitate to submit your abstract! 🙂

Katarzyna Marcisz @marciszowna.bsky.social · Nov 18

Are you working on #peatland #palaeoecology and plan on coming for #EGU25? Than get swamped and submit your abstract to session BG3.26 on all things connected with long-term peatlands development!
Can't wait to see you there!

Cc. @eurogeosciences.bsky.social @utriculator.bsky.social

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · Nov 19

The application is now open for paleoCAMP 2025 (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies)! For graduate students in any area of paleoclimatology, our 2 week summer school is timescale agnostic and multidisciplinary - please apply or share widely! paleoclimate.camp/apply

Application — paleoCAMP

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Maurycy Żarczyński @mzarowka.bsky.social · Nov 15

It's been a privilege and a pleasure to work with you Paul!

Paul Zander @zanderland.bsky.social · Nov 15

New publication out today in GRL! 🧪Varves and high-res Holocene Paleoclimate!

"Subdecadal Holocene Warm-Season Temperature Variability in Central Europe Recorded by Biochemical Varves"

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🧵 below for the nerdy details

Subdecadal Holocene Warm‐Season Temperature Variability in Central Europe Recorded by Biochemical Varves

10,800-year-long, 3-year-resolution, warm-season temperature reconstruction from biochemical varves from Lake Żabińskie, Poland Peak summer temperatures occurred during the early Holocene with de...

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · Feb 14

Two projects I'm involved with are looking for PhD students:
1. Formation of #authigenic #carbonates at the last glacial maximum to Holocene interglacial transition.
2. Understanding the effect of #ClimateChange by using the east #Mediterranean as a natural laboratory.
Contact me for details.

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Frederik Schenk @freddyschenk.bsky.social · Jan 27

Open position for a PhD student in Paleoclimatology at the Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, with closing date 29 February 2024. The topic focuses on reconstructing past storminess & includes fieldwork in the Norwegian Arctic, Sweden & Norway. www.su.se/english/abou...

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Maurycy Żarczyński @mzarowka.bsky.social · Nov 22

For a decade we observed and we measured! And now we have released a decade of monitoring data on varved Lake Żabińskie, NE Poland. Many thanks to the National Science Centre, Poland and the Polish-Swiss Research Programme support!
essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/...

Investigating limnological processes and modern sedimentation at Lake Żabińskie, northeast Poland:...

Abstract. Here, we present a dataset of a decade-long monitoring project of Lake Żabińskie, a hardwater eutrophic lake in northeast Poland. The lake contains annually laminated (varved) sediments th...

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Paul Zander @zanderland.bsky.social · Nov 5

My colleague Luyao led this really interesting paper where we compiled lake sediment records of Phosphorus over the past 10000 years. We found evidence of major impacts to the P cycle by humans thousands of years ago.

doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

And a nice writeup: www.snf.ch/en/TzU1Cbw6Q...

Phosphorous – too much in lakes, too little in the soil

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

www.snf.ch

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