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Becca Kearney

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Postdoc in Tephrochronolgy 🌋 All things volcanic ash, palaeoclimate, geochronology. Working in eastern Mediterranean. Cycling enthusiast 🚴‍♀️

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Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Mar 17

When the tephra sample is very happy to be blasted by a laser! What trace elements will it hold.

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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social · Feb 19

Registration for the Radiocarbon Short Course will close 28/02. Come along if you would like to learn a bit more about radiocarbon as a dating technique or as a tracer, or you would like some training on OxCal; conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
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Short Course in Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis

Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...

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Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Feb 6

Just some pretty tephra from Süphan volcano found in Lake Van, eastern Turkey 🌋 volcanic snowflakes, not one the same

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Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Feb 1

This paper would not of been possible without the help of my co-authors! Combining our data together will now help everyone who works on tephra layers in this region!

Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Feb 1

Now there is over 1,000 new single glass data for tephra layers from Nemrut and Süphan. Major and trace elements!

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Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Feb 1

We make new correlations to dated proximal tephra outcrops of Nemrut to the V-layers of the Lake Van core! Plus new understanding on the timing and order of many confusing outcrops around the lake

Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Feb 1

Some tephra-tastic news for February! New glass geochemistry of visible tephra layers from Lake Van are finally published!!! 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The volcanoes of Nemrut and Süphan take a bow! 🌋🧪

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Oxford Tephrochronology Group @oxfordtephra.bsky.social · Jan 16

If you are interested in coming to do doctoral research in the #tephra group, apply for this fully funded doctoral program. bsky.app/profile/iles...
We have various research projects in a range of interesting locations and happy to discuss these so please get in touch if you are interested! 🌋🔬🥼🧑‍🔬

ilesla.bsky.social @ilesla.bsky.social · Jan 16

Two weeks to go until the application deadline for ILESLA. If you or anyone you know would benefit from full funding to carry out a PhD in Life and/or Environmental Science please visit/refer to our website page iles.web.ox.ac.uk/how-apply where you can see open day videos and get full guidance.

How to Apply and Funding

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Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Dec 2

Holding out for the 2am wake up of “did I say that!?!” panic. 🙌

Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Dec 2

The triumphant but very tired feeling of submitting paper revisions. A monster of a paper. But hopefully some tephra goodness from Nemrut coming soon 🤞🤞🤞

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Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Nov 22

Snowy Süphan in the sunset.

Some inspiration to get the response to reviewer comments done on the Lake Van paper. It is a biggen but it’s a goody.

Becca Kearney @palaeobecca.bsky.social · Nov 16

The top of Nemrut in eastern Turkey. The crater was formed ~32,000 years ago with a big bang! 🌋
Say hi 👋 and follow along for more tephra-y posts
#volcano #nemrut

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