Some benthic foraminifera got even larger than fusulinids ... Nummulites gizehensis here could live over a century (calibrated by isotope sclerochronology), building large tests that were major components of Eocene limestones like the blocks quarried to build the great pyramids of Egypt.
January 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Some benthic foraminifera got even larger than fusulinids ... Nummulites gizehensis here could live over a century (calibrated by isotope sclerochronology), building large tests that were major components of Eocene limestones like the blocks quarried to build the great pyramids of Egypt.
Never trust a skeletal system inimical to sclerochronology!
To be fair, punctate shells mean that brachiopods largely can't be trusted either.
To be fair, punctate shells mean that brachiopods largely can't be trusted either.
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Never trust a skeletal system inimical to sclerochronology!
To be fair, punctate shells mean that brachiopods largely can't be trusted either.
To be fair, punctate shells mean that brachiopods largely can't be trusted either.
We had a successful field trip collecting Siderastrea siderea coral cores for ancient DNA research, one of them appears to be on ver 100 years old. Colombian Caribbean.🌎🧪🦠🌊🪸🦑🌐
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We had a successful field trip collecting Siderastrea siderea coral cores for ancient DNA research, one of them appears to be on ver 100 years old. Colombian Caribbean.🌎🧪🦠🌊🪸🦑🌐
I'm a visiting Professor in the SUNY system and I study evolutionary responses to marine environmental change, including both large patterns of extinction/body-size/niche evolution and, in individual/species lineages, how heterochronic mechanisms generate new forms using isotopic sclerochronology
August 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I'm a visiting Professor in the SUNY system and I study evolutionary responses to marine environmental change, including both large patterns of extinction/body-size/niche evolution and, in individual/species lineages, how heterochronic mechanisms generate new forms using isotopic sclerochronology
🚨still time left to APPLY! 🚨
South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd (SALL) is hiring a Sclerochronology Scientist in the Falkland Islands!
🧪 Deadline: 4.30pm (-4BST) 30 June 2025
📧 Apply via: [email protected]
🔗 More info: www.south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs/
South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd (SALL) is hiring a Sclerochronology Scientist in the Falkland Islands!
🧪 Deadline: 4.30pm (-4BST) 30 June 2025
📧 Apply via: [email protected]
🔗 More info: www.south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs/
June 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🚨still time left to APPLY! 🚨
South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd (SALL) is hiring a Sclerochronology Scientist in the Falkland Islands!
🧪 Deadline: 4.30pm (-4BST) 30 June 2025
📧 Apply via: [email protected]
🔗 More info: www.south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs/
South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd (SALL) is hiring a Sclerochronology Scientist in the Falkland Islands!
🧪 Deadline: 4.30pm (-4BST) 30 June 2025
📧 Apply via: [email protected]
🔗 More info: www.south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs/
💡#JobOpportunity: Sclerochronology Scientist
Study age and growth of #marine species in the South Atlantic.
🏢 South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd (SALL)
📍 Falkland Islands
🗓️ Full-time, 2 yrs
🚨 Deadline: 30 June
👀 www.south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs/
#sciencejobs #biology #fish #fisheries
Study age and growth of #marine species in the South Atlantic.
🏢 South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd (SALL)
📍 Falkland Islands
🗓️ Full-time, 2 yrs
🚨 Deadline: 30 June
👀 www.south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs/
#sciencejobs #biology #fish #fisheries
June 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
💡#JobOpportunity: Sclerochronology Scientist
Study age and growth of #marine species in the South Atlantic.
🏢 South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd (SALL)
📍 Falkland Islands
🗓️ Full-time, 2 yrs
🚨 Deadline: 30 June
👀 www.south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs/
#sciencejobs #biology #fish #fisheries
Study age and growth of #marine species in the South Atlantic.
🏢 South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd (SALL)
📍 Falkland Islands
🗓️ Full-time, 2 yrs
🚨 Deadline: 30 June
👀 www.south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs/
#sciencejobs #biology #fish #fisheries
Happy to share our new publication which shows the potential of LIBS Mg/Ca mapping to characterise seasonal shellfish foraging practices from Tasmanian limpet shells. 🐚 Led by @fleurking.bsky.social #archsci #sclerochronology @niklashausmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A key to seasonal shellfish exploitation: Elemental mapping of Mg/Ca ratios in Lutruwita (Tasmania) Cellana limpets
The littoral environment has considerable influence on life history traits and patterns of growth in marine molluscs due to changes in water temperatu…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Happy to share our new publication which shows the potential of LIBS Mg/Ca mapping to characterise seasonal shellfish foraging practices from Tasmanian limpet shells. 🐚 Led by @fleurking.bsky.social #archsci #sclerochronology @niklashausmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨 We're hiring!
Join SALL in the Falkland Islands as a Sclerochronology Scientist 🐟🔬
Apply by 30 June 2025
📧 [email protected]
🔗 south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs
#MarineBiology #JobAlert
Join SALL in the Falkland Islands as a Sclerochronology Scientist 🐟🔬
Apply by 30 June 2025
📧 [email protected]
🔗 south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs
#MarineBiology #JobAlert
June 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚨 We're hiring!
Join SALL in the Falkland Islands as a Sclerochronology Scientist 🐟🔬
Apply by 30 June 2025
📧 [email protected]
🔗 south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs
#MarineBiology #JobAlert
Join SALL in the Falkland Islands as a Sclerochronology Scientist 🐟🔬
Apply by 30 June 2025
📧 [email protected]
🔗 south-atlantic-research.org/saeri-jobs
#MarineBiology #JobAlert
Just a reminder we have an otolith and sclerochronology starter pack here! 👆
May 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Just a reminder we have an otolith and sclerochronology starter pack here! 👆
Join me for my oral presentation at EGU'25 on April 29th at 16:30 in Room 2.93!
#Egu25 #palaeoclimate #Bartonian #MECO #Eocene #sclerochronology #globalwarming #CO2 #tropical #india #kutch #oyster
#Egu25 #palaeoclimate #Bartonian #MECO #Eocene #sclerochronology #globalwarming #CO2 #tropical #india #kutch #oyster
April 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Join me for my oral presentation at EGU'25 on April 29th at 16:30 in Room 2.93!
#Egu25 #palaeoclimate #Bartonian #MECO #Eocene #sclerochronology #globalwarming #CO2 #tropical #india #kutch #oyster
#Egu25 #palaeoclimate #Bartonian #MECO #Eocene #sclerochronology #globalwarming #CO2 #tropical #india #kutch #oyster
Huge congratulations to Bohao Dong for pressing the submit button on his PhD today!! 🎉🎉🎉 #ProudSupervisor #sclerochronology #GiantClams #unimelb @laura-m-otter.bsky.social @seanulm.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Huge congratulations to Bohao Dong for pressing the submit button on his PhD today!! 🎉🎉🎉 #ProudSupervisor #sclerochronology #GiantClams #unimelb @laura-m-otter.bsky.social @seanulm.bsky.social
New paper in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology ⬇️
Shell sclerochronology of the limpet Patella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791: Implications for growth patterns and reconstruction of past sea surface temperatures.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shell sclerochronology of the limpet Patella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791: Implications for growth patterns and reconstruction of past sea surface temperatures.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shell sclerochronology of the limpet Patella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791: Implications for growth patterns and reconstruction of past sea surface temperatures
Understanding the environmental conditions faced by past human populations is essential to understand their behaviour, and the subsistence strategies …
www.sciencedirect.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New paper in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology ⬇️
Shell sclerochronology of the limpet Patella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791: Implications for growth patterns and reconstruction of past sea surface temperatures.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shell sclerochronology of the limpet Patella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791: Implications for growth patterns and reconstruction of past sea surface temperatures.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Oysters, key ecosystem engineers and important food sources, have often been overlooked in sclerochronology studies despite their potential as environmental and life history archives. DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10461 HAL: hal–04968493 #Oysters #Sclerochronology #PalaeoenvironmentalStudies 🌊🦪
March 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Oysters, key ecosystem engineers and important food sources, have often been overlooked in sclerochronology studies despite their potential as environmental and life history archives. DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10461 HAL: hal–04968493 #Oysters #Sclerochronology #PalaeoenvironmentalStudies 🌊🦪
New paper alert! One for the Dinosaur lovers 🦖🦷
Very happy to share my PhD student @zuorui_liu (Carl)'s cool study on high-resolution past environmental reconstructions from Spinosaurus tooth oxygen isotopes
#ProudSupervisor #Sclerochronology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Very happy to share my PhD student @zuorui_liu (Carl)'s cool study on high-resolution past environmental reconstructions from Spinosaurus tooth oxygen isotopes
#ProudSupervisor #Sclerochronology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The effectiveness of oxygen isotopes in Spinosaurus tooth dentine for high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
Oxygen isotope compositions in tooth dentine of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus were investigated as a potential proxy for high-resolution reconstructions of …
www.sciencedirect.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
New paper alert! One for the Dinosaur lovers 🦖🦷
Very happy to share my PhD student @zuorui_liu (Carl)'s cool study on high-resolution past environmental reconstructions from Spinosaurus tooth oxygen isotopes
#ProudSupervisor #Sclerochronology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Very happy to share my PhD student @zuorui_liu (Carl)'s cool study on high-resolution past environmental reconstructions from Spinosaurus tooth oxygen isotopes
#ProudSupervisor #Sclerochronology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to Bohao Dong on his PhD completion seminar! 🎉🎉🎉 A phenomenal project advancing the possibilities of giant clam shell sclerochronology. Such a lot of hard work and excellent data has gone into this project. #ProudSupervisor @seanulm.bsky.social @laura-m-otter.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Congratulations to Bohao Dong on his PhD completion seminar! 🎉🎉🎉 A phenomenal project advancing the possibilities of giant clam shell sclerochronology. Such a lot of hard work and excellent data has gone into this project. #ProudSupervisor @seanulm.bsky.social @laura-m-otter.bsky.social
It’s my love of recycling that drew me into the world of sclerochronology…
Excerpt from my blog curated by South Australian Science Teachers Association.
Excerpt from my blog curated by South Australian Science Teachers Association.
Taking the recycling ethos into the lab to collect much needed data on our aquatic environments
Zoë Doubleday – Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of South Australia
As an environmental scientist, I’m an avid recycler at home. But I also apply the “reduce, reuse, and recycle” etho...
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March 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
It’s my love of recycling that drew me into the world of sclerochronology…
Excerpt from my blog curated by South Australian Science Teachers Association.
Excerpt from my blog curated by South Australian Science Teachers Association.
🌳 Much like tree rings, Arctica islandica forms annual bands in its shell. The growth patterns of these annual bands provide invaluable information about the animal's life history, and also the environment it lived in.
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#dendrochronology #sclerochronology
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#dendrochronology #sclerochronology
March 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🌳 Much like tree rings, Arctica islandica forms annual bands in its shell. The growth patterns of these annual bands provide invaluable information about the animal's life history, and also the environment it lived in.
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#dendrochronology #sclerochronology
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#dendrochronology #sclerochronology
Super proud of our PhD researcher Carl Zuorui Liu for giving an awesome PhD completion seminar today - an amazing journey through space and time showcasing the awesome things we can learn using tooth sclerochronology. Well done Carl! 🦷🦣🔬#SciMelb #ProudSupervisor
March 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Super proud of our PhD researcher Carl Zuorui Liu for giving an awesome PhD completion seminar today - an amazing journey through space and time showcasing the awesome things we can learn using tooth sclerochronology. Well done Carl! 🦷🦣🔬#SciMelb #ProudSupervisor
Cool Sclerochronology job to work on bivalves with David Moss. Unfortunately it is in Texas, but if that is not an impediment for you it is a interesting project with a nice person. careers.geosociety.org/job/post-doc...
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Duties Performed in the Usual Course of the Job – The Department of Environmental and Geosciences seeks to hire a Post-Doctoral Fellow to work on an NSF CAREER grant to Dr. David Moss. The successful....
careers.geosociety.org
February 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Cool Sclerochronology job to work on bivalves with David Moss. Unfortunately it is in Texas, but if that is not an impediment for you it is a interesting project with a nice person. careers.geosociety.org/job/post-doc...
#ThingsWithRings! Read this new @uk.theconversation.com article about some of the surprising biological archives out there, and what we can use them for... theconversation.com/most-animals...
#otoliths #archaeology, #forensics #fish #sclerochronology #biochronology @universityofessex.bsky.social
#otoliths #archaeology, #forensics #fish #sclerochronology #biochronology @universityofessex.bsky.social
Most animals have their own version of tree rings – here’s how we biologists use them to help species thrive
From whale earwax to bird feathers, almost all organisms keep a record of their existence.
theconversation.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#ThingsWithRings! Read this new @uk.theconversation.com article about some of the surprising biological archives out there, and what we can use them for... theconversation.com/most-animals...
#otoliths #archaeology, #forensics #fish #sclerochronology #biochronology @universityofessex.bsky.social
#otoliths #archaeology, #forensics #fish #sclerochronology #biochronology @universityofessex.bsky.social
💡#JobOpportunity: Senior Sclerochronology Scientist
Fancy a #sciencejob in the #FalklandIslands? This role will acquire age estimates for selected #fisheries species.
🏢 South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd
📍 Falkland Islands
🚨 Apply: 28 Feb
👀 https://buff.ly/3CCP4EZ
#sciencejobs #sciencecareers
Fancy a #sciencejob in the #FalklandIslands? This role will acquire age estimates for selected #fisheries species.
🏢 South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd
📍 Falkland Islands
🚨 Apply: 28 Feb
👀 https://buff.ly/3CCP4EZ
#sciencejobs #sciencecareers
February 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
💡#JobOpportunity: Senior Sclerochronology Scientist
Fancy a #sciencejob in the #FalklandIslands? This role will acquire age estimates for selected #fisheries species.
🏢 South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd
📍 Falkland Islands
🚨 Apply: 28 Feb
👀 https://buff.ly/3CCP4EZ
#sciencejobs #sciencecareers
Fancy a #sciencejob in the #FalklandIslands? This role will acquire age estimates for selected #fisheries species.
🏢 South Atlantic Laboratories Ltd
📍 Falkland Islands
🚨 Apply: 28 Feb
👀 https://buff.ly/3CCP4EZ
#sciencejobs #sciencecareers
Freshly published in Open Quaternary, this is a nice multi-proxy (pollen/ plant macros/ sclerochronology) study of a later prehistoric landscape in Oman openquaternary.com/articles/10.... 🏺
A Multi-Proxy Investigation of the Anthropogenic Landscape Near the Early Bronze Age Building VII at Al-Khashbah, Oman | Open Quaternary
Open Quaternary is a fully open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, publishing contributions that consider the changing environment of the Quaternary as well as the development of humanity.The...
openquaternary.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Freshly published in Open Quaternary, this is a nice multi-proxy (pollen/ plant macros/ sclerochronology) study of a later prehistoric landscape in Oman openquaternary.com/articles/10.... 🏺
Another exciting opportunity!
If you’re an experienced Sclerochronology Scientist looking for a unique and impactful role and is excited about travel and new experiences – this may be the job for you! 👇👇
If you’re an experienced Sclerochronology Scientist looking for a unique and impactful role and is excited about travel and new experiences – this may be the job for you! 👇👇
February 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Another exciting opportunity!
If you’re an experienced Sclerochronology Scientist looking for a unique and impactful role and is excited about travel and new experiences – this may be the job for you! 👇👇
If you’re an experienced Sclerochronology Scientist looking for a unique and impactful role and is excited about travel and new experiences – this may be the job for you! 👇👇
One-year Postdoc or Research Assistant Position in Archaeomalacology and Sclerochronology
University of Aarhus - Ginnerup Project
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ927/o...
University of Aarhus - Ginnerup Project
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ927/o...
One-year Postdoc or Research Assistant Position in Archaeomalacology and Sclerochronology at University of Aarhus
Recruiting now: One-year Postdoc or Research Assistant Position in Archaeomalacology and Sclerochronology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job bo...
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February 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
One-year Postdoc or Research Assistant Position in Archaeomalacology and Sclerochronology
University of Aarhus - Ginnerup Project
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ927/o...
University of Aarhus - Ginnerup Project
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ927/o...
Just noticed its world bivalve day.
So here is an old story about ‘Ming’, the oldest clam ever.
Sclerochronology determined Ming was 507 years old.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
So here is an old story about ‘Ming’, the oldest clam ever.
Sclerochronology determined Ming was 507 years old.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
If a Clam Can Live to 500, Why Can’t We?
The ocean’s bivalves might hold a few clues to the great mysteries of aging.
www.theatlantic.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Just noticed its world bivalve day.
So here is an old story about ‘Ming’, the oldest clam ever.
Sclerochronology determined Ming was 507 years old.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
So here is an old story about ‘Ming’, the oldest clam ever.
Sclerochronology determined Ming was 507 years old.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...